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A University of Northern B.C. student wants to help shrink the gap between politicians and the people they represent.

Access to education in the north is threatened by provincial post-secondary underfunding and proposed program cuts, a slew of speakers argued at a forum Wednesday at the College of New Caledonia.

Issues at the office of the municipal watchdog stretched beyond delays in completing the 18 scheduled audits. As one Prince George city councillor found out, the auditor general for local government was behind on her email inbox as well. Coun.

Coroner Lisa Lapointe's move to adjourn the inquest into the fatal Lakeland Mills sawmill explosion caused ripples through Victoria on Wednesday.

Coroner Lisa Lapointe adjourned Wednesday the inquest into the Lakeland Mills sawmill explosion to a later date to give counsel time to go over new evidence in the form of an investigation into the fatal blast commissioned on behalf of the operation'

The local police department helped in the successful deportation from the US of a former local resident wanted in connection with the rape of a five-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, alleged to have taken place in an Upland Street home in 1974.

Steps were missed by many that could have prevented the deadly explosion that leveled the Lakeland MIlls sawmill, Sinclar Group president Greg Stewart said Wednesday morning during testimony at the coroner's inquest into the incident.

Robert Lee Milligan, a 32-year-old Prince George man with a history of violence and weapons, was found during a traffic stop in the Lombardi trailer park at about 6:45 Wednesday morning.

Last Tuesday morning, the Peck family was going about their normal routine. They let the dogs out on their rural property in Charlie Lake - near Fort St. John - then got ready for work.

One major Prince George industrial powerhouse and another local industrial giant have had a personnel transaction. Alistair Cook was senior vice-president of operations for Canfor, a company he has been with for about 23 years.