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A proposed city bylaw has the potential to push smokers further and further from public spaces.

B.C.'s new education minister said School District 57 faces difficult decisions when dealing with its rural schools. Mike Bernier acknowledged the capacity issue that many of the region's rural schools face.

City council added an examination of how to pull back the curtain on closed meetings to its work plan. A strategic planning session for the group planned for Oct.

A 30-year-old Prince George man died Monday after the motorcycle he was riding collided with a pickup truck in Swan River, Man. RCMP said the crash happened around 4:45 p.m. The motorcyclist was rushed to hospital, but later died.

A meteorologist for The Weather Network is predicting some warmer than usual weather for the Central Interior this fall - but you'll have to be patient.

The Prince George Community Foundation's Citizen of the Year celebration is going plural. Rather than bestowing the honour on just one person, as many as five individuals or couples will be named under a change to the format announced Tuesday.

Janet Holder, the woman once regarded as the local figurehead for Enbridge's controversial Northern Gateway pipeline, died Monday following a long battle with leukemia.

Neil Peterson looks for a bean on the stalk that he grew this year at his Irwin Street home. The stalk is a Scarlet Runner bean.

A proposal to change a single-family house into a medical office was given the go-ahead Monday night. City council approved an application to lift a restrictive covenant on a 13th Avenue property that restricts its use to that of a residence.

A new barrier along the Hart highway could be in place before the winter.