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City council gave final reading Monday night to an application to add eight more lots to the Nechako View subdivision. It raises the total at the site to 59.

City council voted Monday night to pull $1.8 million out of a reserve fund to get a jump on repairs to the Willowcale Road at Haggith Creek.

City council voted 8-1 Monday night to pass through the first two readings a bylaw to establish a liquor manufacturing zone. If passed, it will allow for small-scale breweries, distilleries, wineries and cideries in urban Prince George.

It's shaping up to be a banner year on the city's construction front. As of the end of June, 218 permits for $70.

The city's transit service will take to the roads on statutory holidays under a memorandum of understanding city council approved on Monday night.

A new way of dealing with minor bylaw infractions is in the works.

Using an old kitchen cupboard and a few recycled shingles, Jessica Bonin, a teacher librarian at Spruceland Traditional elementary, has opened the first Little Free Library in Prince George on 10th Avenue at the corner of McBride Crescent.

A team of cyclists on a 70-day trip from Austin, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska will stop in Prince George Thursday and Friday.

A new way of dealing with minor bylaw infractions is in the works.

A lawsuit against the Theatre North West Society alleging defamation has been dropped. TNW's former artistic director Ted Price and general manager Anne Laughlin filed a notice of discontinuance July 15 in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.