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A Mackenzie man was sentenced Friday to 90 days in jail, to be served on days off, followed by three years probation for stabbing a woman during a brawl outside a nightspot in the community north of Prince George.

For the next five years the Coliseum will be named the Rolling Mix Concrete Arena.

The best way to introduce new foods to someone is to cook it for them. That's what the North Central Seniors Association does once a month during a lunchtime Cooks' Corner, held in the basement of the College Heights Baptist Church.

Building permits for $88.4 million worth of work were taken out at city hall over 2015, according to a year-end report. That's well down from $125.7 million over 2014. It's also the lowest total reached since 2009, when total value was $67.7 million.

The number of people living in Prince George who were collecting Employment Insurance in November stood at 1,890 according to the latest Statistics Canada report.

Barkerville - once among the largest towns in the Pacific Northwest - is receiving a financial boost in its quest to become a world-class heritage site from an unlikely source: new Chinese-Canadians.

Local MP Todd Doherty was on the agenda in Parliament on Thursday. The opposition member for Cariboo-Prince George tabled a Private Member's Bill that "seeks to put in place a national framework on post-traumatic stress disorder," he said.

The city's population has decreased, according to the latest estimate from B.C. Stats, leaving Prince George mayor Lyn Hall both surprised and disappointed. As of July 1, 2015, the city's population stood at 71,363 people, down 1,958 or 2.

If you go down to the crossroads, fall down on your knees, as the old blues song goes, you'll be on the doorstep of a new Prince George brewery.

A new study shows the volume of the mountain snowpack feeding B.C.'s largest watershed has dropped by almost one fifth over a six-decade period. That snow used to supply the vast majority - 70 per cent - of the Fraser River Basin's annual flow.