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The annual Ness Lake Fire Dept. Boot Hockey Tournament took place Saturday. Firefighters skated in full firefighting gear and raised $760 for the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

One of premier-designate Christy Clark's first challenges -- besides building bridges in the Liberal caucus and finding a seat -- is to roll out the vote on the harmonized sales tax.

City council is seeking a strategy to address the growing infrastructure deficit in the city's roads, water and sewer lines.

The biggest balloon in last year's crime statistics was due to a surge in police enforcement, not necessarily criminal activity, according to RMCP.

City council approved a special $1.3 million tax levy to support capital projects for the 2015 Canada Winter Games. The levy will result in an approximately two per cent tax increase, putting the final tax increase for 2011 at 4.2 per cent.

Family YMCA in Prince George has four new directors on board following a recent election. Three-year-term vacancies have been filled by Craig Wood of Wood Wheaton, Jason Blackman of Scotiabank, Kim Hess of WorkSafeBC and Selen Alpay of Canadian Tire.

In a bid to ensure every resident in B.C. has a family doctor by the year 2015, the federal health ministry has allocated $6 million to support medical residents training as family doctors in the province. The aim is to bring more doctors to B.C.

The Rocky Mountain Rangers will again stand at attention in Prince George. The city's original and only military company to be based in B.C.'s northern capital has been defunct since the 1960s.

A Prince George rescue team's speedy response is getting plowed under by city snow crews.

RCMP had a complaint of a break and enter in the 4000 block of Urquhart Crescent at approximately 8:10 p.m., Saturday. The homeowner reported the home was burglarized between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. the same day.