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A B.C. Supreme Court Justice has rejected an application from BCR Properties Ltd. to dismiss a lawsuit against the Crown corporation brought on by Prince George lumber manufacturer John Brink.

There were 637 fewer people living in the City of Prince George in 2014 than there were the year before according to the latest estimates from BC Stats. The city's population declined by 0.9 per cent to 73,590.

A proposed hotel project sailed through the public hearing process Monday night, leaving only one more vote of council to bring it to fruition.

A healthy living program that that channels the challenge of competition and Canada's favourite sport is targeting northern B.C. men. The two six-week intervention programs, dubbed power play and playoff, target men in the workplace.

City council isn't signing off on a grant application until a group of residents have had their say.

OTTAWA - The NDP's finance critic says he will ask a House of Commons committee to study the economic impacts of low oil prices and the weaker Canadian dollar.

A record-setting amount of snow fell on the city Friday. In all, 20 cm descended, edging out the old record for Jan. 30 of 19 cm, set in 1957, according to Environment Canada meteorologist Matthew MacDonald.

Highway 97 near Bellos Road, south of P.G., is closed as a tanker trunk possibly carrying a poisonous and explosive chemical has over turned. A local RCMP member found the truck at about 1:30 p.m.

An on-duty Commercial Vehicle Safety Enforcement peace officer driving a pickup truck died at the scene late-Sunday night in a collision with a commercial transport truck on Highway Five, about 10 km north of Valemount.

Prince George Fire Rescue was called to a fire at an apartment building in the 200 block of N. Ospika Blvd. Monday morning. Called to the scene at 7:53 a.m., they quickly extinguished a small fire on the building's exterior.