Local News

Though difficult to make such an announcement sound glamourous or exciting, it's one that's necessary, said Prince George-Valemount MLA Shirley Bond in announcing the provincial government's contribution to a local infrastructure project.

With the stroke of a pen, the next steps were taken Friday to protect the Ancient Forest from the swing of an axe.

There wasn't sufficient evidence tying a Prince George woman to a 2013 attack that left another woman with life-threatening injuries, a B.C. Supreme Court justice ruled Friday.

BURNS LAKE - Though Kathleen Weissbach doesn't understand German, she can tell when her husband speaks to family back home about surviving the January 2012 explosion that flattened the Burns Lake sawmill.

BURNS LAKE — Conditions at Babine Forest Products "totally changed" after production shifts were extended, a longtime employee told a Friday coroner's inquest into the explosion that destroyed the sawmill and killed two workers.

BURNS LAKE — A former Babine Forest Products employee described to a coroner's inquest Friday a "chaotic" situation in the days immediately before the explosion that destroyed the Burns Lake sawmill and killed two workers.

Prince George Fire Rescue quickly snuffed out a vehicle fire Thursday night. Around 8:30 p.m., firefighters responded to the 3200 block of the Hart Highway where they found a minivan fully engulfed.

A man is dead following a police-involved shooting at a Site C open house event in Dawson Creek Thursday night. The Independent Investigations Office confirmed the death to the Alaska Highway News.

Prince George-Mackenzie MLA Mike Morris has a new assignment.

Eleven city streets are currently getting a fresh coat. The city began microsurfacing operations Thursday, and is expected to continue for the next week, weather permitting.