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The provincial government has launched a four-week consultation period into whether the penalties for distracted driving should be increased. To register your opinion, go to engage.gov.bc.ca/distracteddriving.

A Quesnel man was sentenced Monday to 20 months probation with a suspended sentence for possessing and trafficking cocaine. It could have been much worse for Chad William Dickey, 30, had B.C.

Tree planting is a job so demanding that when the BBC sent three young Brits to B.C. to give it a try, two didn't even make it through the first week.

Charges have been stayed against two people accused of running a marijuana grow operation in the city. Hsiao Chen Chen, 52, and Tak Cheong Ou, 53, were arrested Feb.

A B.C. Supreme Court Justice has found a woman who was driving a van with winter tires on only the front wheels completely responsible for a winter collision on Highway 16 West that left an occupant of another vehicle severely injured.

One senior's complaint has prompted a conversation about minimum requirements for bathing for seniors in care. Earlier this year Northern Health's eight-bed McBride facility moved from two-a-week to once-a-week bathing.

A police investigation into a fatal collision on Highway 97 at Austin Road late last month remains ongoing. Prince George RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass said this week it will be some time yet before police can determine whether charges will be pursued.

Both rents and vacancy rates have been on the rise in Prince George, according to a Canada Mortgage and Housing report issued this week.

Rural education, sustainable funding and School District 57's vulnerable students were among the topics trustees raised in a private meeting with B.C.'s education minister Monday.

As he stood in the vast city park that will soon bear the name of his people, Lheidli T'enneh chief Dominic Frederick had a smile on his face.