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The cause of a balcony fire on Gillette Street is still under investigation. Officials are primarily thankful that no one was injured.

In the short history of Prince George organized crime, the only way to displace a gang is with another gang. Meet our gang. The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit-North. They still don't have a snappy nickname so they go by their initials.

There's a new executive director at the Prince George Conservatory of Music.

A 20-year-old P.G. man who had been missing since Wednesday at 4 p.m. has been located.

The August 2010 natural gas and petroleum sale resulted in over $98 million in bonus bids, bringing the calendar year total to over $760 million.

There's a new 23-seater bus in town for the next two weeks to see if the bus will be a valuable addition to the B.C. Transit system. It's been tested elsewhere and now the Vicinity will be used here to see how it performs in our climate and terrain.

Smoke is expected to increase with forecast warmer weather during the weekend on fires west of Prince George, including the 40,000-hectare Binta Lake fire.

Another cabin at Cluculz Lake has gone up in flames and it's right beside the one that was destroyed by fire a week ago Thursday. The fire started at about 6:30 a.m. and it completely destroyed the cabin immediately east of the cabin on Meier Road.

HST is to blame for an increase of the parking rate at the College of New Caledonia beginning Sept. 1. The daily meter rate will go up by a quarter. Monthly rates for students and employees are $35+HST or $39.20.

Northern B.C. First Nations and others critical of Enbridge's proposed $5.5-billion pipeline are ramping up their efforts to publicize their concerns, in part, to coincide with the first set of preliminary federal regulatory hearings.