Local News

By the time you read this, we'll have said our goodbyes to our longtime home. After nearly 54 years, The Citizen has moved from its 150 Brunswick St. location along First Avenue. To make the move happen, we had to close our office on Friday at noon.

Prince George city council will be reviewing two applications from the Aboriginal Housing Society of Prince George to develop more than 250 residential housing units for families, students and elders.

Maggie Janssen volunteers to make dresses, suits, bunting bags, hats and booties for a special group of babies. The tears shed as the outfit goes on and photographs are taken are tears of grief and goodbye.

There will be 20 new campsites at the Six Mile Bay recreation site near Mackenzie by the time camping season starts, the Ministry of Environment said this week, up from just one in past years.

A new fire truck is in Prince George Fire Rescue's hands. Along with the other capabilities a typical fire truck provides, it features a 75-foot mid-mount ladder.

If you spent any time down at the Pomeroy Sport Centre in Dawson Creek, you may notice one particular athlete accompanied by his dog. The athlete is speed skater Kevin Frost, and the dog is Lewis, Frost's seeing eye dog.

The NDP campaign office opened its doors Thursday and Prince George-Mackenzie candidate Bobby Deepak says he's ready to work. "It feels good and it's a very exciting time. It's going to mean a lot of hard work and we're ready," Deepak said.

The bikini event isn't nearly as revealing as the reasons Emmerson Taylor will be competing in the Miss Universe-Canada pageant. The young Prince George woman is stepping into the spotlight not to flaunt or to strike a pose.

The provincial government is putting $111,000 towards a emergency medical responder and industrial medic training program to be taught at College of New Caledonia. It will be enough to teach 16 students with the program begins in June.

Prince George lumber manufacturer John Brink will be standing on broader ground when his legal battle with BCR Properties Ltd. over a failed land deal heads to court. In a decision issued Thursday, B.C.