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BURNS LAKE — There was a moment when Ken Michell was so covered in flames, he thought they were part of him.

BURNS LAKE — Steve Dominic fought back the tears as he recalled the day in question while testifying Wednesday into the coroner's inquest into the explosion that destroyed the Babine Forest Products sawmill and killed two of his friends. By Jan.

Prince George RCMP are on the lookout for a man who has several arrest warrants to his name. Police are asking for the public's help in finding Wilfred Patrick Prince, charged with sexual assault.

Families in Burns Lake are gearing up for the same level of disappointment felt by those affected by the mill explosion in Prince George, according to the NDP's labour critic.

The Prince George Airport has found someone to call its new cargo warehouse facility home.

Locals are ramping up a weeks-old search for a beloved pet by organizing a "Find Ollie Walk" today for the missing feline.

A Prince George man was handed an almost two-year conditional sentence for assault, uttering death threats and unlawful confinement of a victim at a local crack shack.

A local educator is hoping to fill the void he sees in the political scene. Matt Shaw has joined the race of those vying to be the Liberal Party's nominee for the Cariboo-Prince George seat in this fall's federal election.

BURNS LAKE — Burns Lake fire chief Jim McBride knew it was serious when he saw the glow on the horizon from Babine Forest Products even as he was driving through a blinding snowstorm.

High accumulations of wood dust were a constant theme when the coroner's inquest into the explosion that leveled Babine Forest Products and killed two workers was taken Tuesday through the sequence of events a WorkSafeBC investigation concluded led t