Local News

The Yellowhead Rotary Club will hold its sixth annual Taste of India - A Celebration of Cuisine, Culture & Community event on Feb. 20 at the Civic Centre.

Looking for a way to get more out of its investments, the city is offering up a $5 million fund for an outside party to play with. Finance director Kris Dalio posed the idea to the city's finance and audit committee during the summer.

A former Prince George gangster's bid to lessen the length of his prison term has been cut short by the B.C. Court of Appeal.

When Kit Moran started his first semester at Dalhousie University medical school this year, he saw an opportunity that would combine his passion for health and background in the environment. He applied and forgot about it.

Police are asking for the public to keep an eye out following a Saturday hit and run. On Nov. 21 around 5 p.m., Prince George RCMP received a report of a pedestrian who had been struck on Second Avenue near Ogilvie Street earlier in the afternoon.

The twin teddy bears are back for the annual Share-a-Bear campaign in BC Liquor Stores throughout the province. From now until Christmas, customers can purchase a set of twin pandas for $12.

Half a billion dollars have been set aside to help finance those businesses struggling through the oil and gas downturn. The envelope of money was opened last week by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC).

A free college course called Street Humanities will be offered at the College of New Caledonia in an effort to increase access to education.

A local group has received a $10,000 investment from the province to "help eliminate racism in Prince George," according to the government.

Snowmobilers and other backcountry enthusiasts are being encouraged to make use of a "real-time information sharing" system introduced by Avalanche Canada last January.