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The city planned a community bash Thursday to honour 46 community groups that are just a little bit richer for their efforts. The city handed out $137,850 in grants for education efforts, festivals, summer camps, art projects and more.

A date has been set to hear the appeal of Cody Alan Legebokoff's convictions of first degree murder in the deaths of four area women. It will be held on May 25 in Vancouver, according to an online posting for the B.C. Court of Appeal.

She was always there for us and we're going to miss her, said one local resident in reaction to the multiple sclerosis (MS) office closing in downtown Prince George at the end of February.

The City of Prince George has its eye on a number of items revealed in Tuesday's federal budget. Chief among them was the infrastructure announcements, which dipped under the election promise of $10 billion over two years to about $6.

New hotel managers, new owners, new renovations, new business model, but the same old barber. George the Barber gets to finally say he has been in business, always in one location, for 50 years, even though it took 52 to do it.

Prince George city councillors are supporting local charities who say they are feeling a pinch when it comes to provincial gaming funds and have been pushed into silence about that reality.

It's back to square one for a local man who filed a small claims lawsuit against the Prince George Regional Correctional Centre after his jaw was broken by a sucker punch while he was incarcerated in the facility. In a notice of claim filed Dec.

Prince George's small sinkhole has been fixed. The culprit was a broken main, the city said in a release Thursday, and traffic has returned to normal.

Each of the Prince George and District Elizabeth Fry Society and Carrier Sekani Family Services are receiving $125,000 in grants from the provincial government's civil and criminal forfeiture programs.

The provincial government is seeking comments about proposed changes to the way BC Parks informs the public about permits authorizing activities in parks, protected areas, recreation areas, conservancies, and ecological reserves.