Local News

A three-day gathering in support of the families of missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls will be held in Prince George in the new year. Set for Jan. 31 to Feb.

Operation Red Nose volunteers will be taking to Prince George's streets tonight and tomorrow night to deliver holiday season celebrators and their vehicles safely home. There will be 22 teams out on the road tonight and another 24 on Saturday night.

A federal parolee was sentenced Friday to a further 297 days in jail for failing to return to his halfway house in Prince George.

School District 57 has announced a temporary placeholder for its superintendent position. Effective immediately, Sharon Cairns is the interim superintendent of schools.

B.C. Parks will start accepting bookings for hiking trips along the Berg Lake trail in Mount Robson Provincial Park and canoe trips along the Bowron Lakes chain on Jan. 2.

Traffic on Highway 16 has been reduced to single-lane alternating with up to 20-minute delays 30 km east of the city where a vehicle recovery is taking place, according to a DriveBC alert issued at 10:43 a.m. A second alert was issued at 11:04 a.m.

A national teachers association is registering its concern with the University of Northern B.C.'s decision to appoint James Moore its next chancellor.

Area E (Woodpecker-Hixon) director Art Kaehn has easily retained his role as chair of the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George board of directors.

After the dissolution of Initiatives Prince George, the regional district has put its economic development eggs in the city of Prince George's basket.

Though the House of Commons only sat for two weeks following the October election, new Cariboo-Prince George MP Todd Doherty already has three pieces of legislation introduced in Ottawa. "When we got there we wanted to hit the ground running.