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The largest medical education conference in North America will take place in Denver, Colorado, next month, and the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) will be there.

Already entrenched as one of the top-rated undergraduate universities in Canada, the University of Northern B.C. has reaffirmed that status in the 21st annual Maclean's magazine rankings, released Wednesday. The Prince George school ranks No.

The Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation has come forward with a $375,000 cure for patients who have been unable to find a family doctor to meet their medical needs.

Although students can usually be found stumbling half-dead during midterms, this weekend, they made like zombies for a different cause.

City council's committee of the whole endorsed increases to garbage rates, business license fees and development application fees - but backed away from water and sewer rate increases of up to 15 per cent.

Funding for five additional RCMP officers and eight additional firefighters won't be on the table when city council considers its budget for 2012 in February.

Promoting Prince George as a place to hold a convention is among the items the city can look forward to as the result of a new tourism strategy unveiled Tuesday by the provincial government, says jobs, tourism and innovation minister Pat Bell.

Traveling in and around northern British Columbia just got easier, thanks to an innovative free application just launched by Northern British Columbia Tourism.

Highway 97 north of Mackenzie Junction is closed until further notice due to two accidents. No fatalities are reported but three vehicles including a semi-tractor trailer are blocking the road.

Joanne Dickenson is new to Prince George, but not new to the region nor to municipal politics. The latest candidate for Prince George city council has been on Houston council for the past 12 years.