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The coroner's inquest into the fatal Lakeland Mills explosion will resume next month. Proceedings will pick up on May 11 at the Prince George Law Courts, after being put on hold March 25 to review new information.

The Minerals North mining conference organizers moved their event by one weekend this year, smack into the path of a conflicting major trade show.

A step was taken this week towards the B.C. Forest Safety Council becoming the health and safety association for the province's sawmills in the wake of the fatal explosions at Babine Forest Products and Lakeland Mills.

Diversity is coming to School District 57. From April 27 to 30 in Prince George and May 4 to 7 in McBride and Fort St.

Police are looking for Calvin Christopher Adams and are asking for the public's assistance in locating him. Adams went to a friend's house on Lalonde Road driving a newer black Dodge pick up and never returned home.

The Prince George Relay for Life is the biggest community-based fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society in the nation, raising $600,000 last year.

No one can say the Citizen poll is not diverse. It's going from a Marilyn Manson question to a politically charged Canadian Forces question. The last poll question went like this: Marilyn Manson plays CN Centre in Prince George on Tuesday.

At the end of the month, 32 senior students will spend four days "in the pit.

The United Steelworkers has launched a petition demanding Premier Christy Clark call a public inquiry into the explosions at the Babine and Lakeland sawmills.

Take care when you head out onto the province's roads and highways over the Easter long weekend. Across B.C.