Local News

The next city council meeting could be the final tee-off for the development of the Prince George Golf and Curling Club lands.

When Prince George RCMP Drug Task Force did a search of a residence Oct. 22 they discovered the house was being used to produce hash and hash oil.

Three residents showed up for The Citizen's Friday coffee hour at Starbucks in the Ramada Hotel. Dave Olson, long time resident, came to tell us of the death of pioneer Wilf Leboe who died recently in Abbotsford.

Northern Cancer Control Strategy has launched a new web site so patients and residents in northern B.C. can learn more about cancer services and programs offered across the region. The web site is at www.northerncancerstrategy.

ICBC is offering drivers and parents of trick or treaters to plan ahead for Halloween. There are about 440 crashes every Halloween night between 3 p.m. and midnight injuring 150 people, according to a five-year average covering 2005 to 2009.

The manager of a project in Surrey aimed at keeping youth out of gangs will be speaking at the gang summit and forum on Tuesday.

The B.C. Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General crime prevention coordinator will be among the speakers at the gang crime summit. Jaret Hunter will appear at the break-out session Monday on community assessment action networks.

A routine vehicle road check turned into a surprise haul of crack, meth, coke, pot and guns for Vanderhoof police, at the provincial scales on October 21.

Highway 97 is now a four-lane stretch from Sintich Road to Simon Fraser Bridge. Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Shirley Bond and Cariboo-Prince George MP Dick Harris announced completion of the work on Friday.

As many as 18 witnesses will take the stand over the course of the trial into an alleged leak of a confidential document by city councillor Brian Skakun.