Local News

Three people were injured in an early-morning crash on Saturday. At approximately 2 a.m. a vehicle collided with a power pole on Foothills Boulevard near Ochakwin Crescent.

A new face is looking out over downtown Prince George. It was unveiled Friday during a ceremony hosted by the 2015 Canada Winter Games committee and is part of an exterior beautification project at Canada Games House.

Surrounded by five 20-something females, James Smyth didn't have to be coaxed to sit himself down into their four-person inflatable boat for Saturday's Nechako River Float. The things a guy's gotta do. "I'm a lucky man," Smyth said.

Power was out for several hours early Saturday morning after a passing vehicle snagged a downed hydro line on the Hart Highway. BC Hydro reported about 2,680 customers were without electricity as a result of the accident at about 12:30 a.m. Saturday.

Fewer medical professionals in the north are washing their hands properly.

A Willow River family is without a home following a fire that broke out Wednesday afternoon. However, they do have house insurance, said a family relative, and the occupants escaped uninjured after a fondue caught fire at about 2 p.m.

Sawdust, wood shavings and chips, which are suspected to have played a part in two recent deadly sawmill explosions, have also fuelled dozens of fires at B.C. sawmills over the past decade.

A Prince George jury has awarded a former Burns Lake sawmill manager the largest punitive damages award in an employment law case in Canadian history. At the conclusion of a three-week trial, the jury found Babine Forest Products Inc.

Several hundred young people are expected to be out on the water - and so will the RCMP - when the Nechako float is held today.

Although Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline is running into increasing political opposition in B.C., the company's plan to ship Canadian crude the other direction is much less contentious.