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The B.C. Building Code will include new standards for reducing radon gas in homes as a result of a pilot project that was conducted partly in Prince George.

A jack knifed semi truck and trailer is blocking two lanes of Highway 97 near Abau Creek, Quesnel RCMP said in an alert issued at 4 p.m., reducing traffick to one-lane alternating. "Road conditions in the area are slick.

An 18-year-old man died at the scene when the vehicle he was driving rolled over early Tuesday morning on Highway 16 by the Augier Main Forest Service Road 20 kilometres east of Burns Lake, RCMP said.

Prince George RCMP's new superintendent started work Monday. Supt. Warren Brown comes here from Williams Lake where he was the detachment commander for five years. He is a third generation Mountie whose career in policing has spanned 27 years.

Crown prosecution is worried a man facing charges related to a marijuana grow operation will be a no-show when his trial rolls around. A B.C. Supreme Court Justice will hear an application on Dec. 16 to issue a warrant to arrest Evan Iovko Jones, 24.

A Prince George man's asthma trouble was not enough to convince a B.C. Supreme Court Justice to overturn a 90-day driving prohibition for failing or refusing to provide a breath sample.

The work ahead of city council will change by the day and sometimes by the hour over the next four years but the group has the necessary strengths to draw upon to meet challenges, said newly installed mayor Lyn Hall.

Previously convicted of selling drugs out of a local motel, a Prince George woman is now suspected of committing an armed robbery at a local convenience store.

The first council meeting of the 2014-18 term will set the stage for the next four years at city hall. Tonight, the new mayor and council will be sworn in for their term, taking the oath of office and invited to sign the council code of conduct.

A sea of blue shirts on elementary-age kids filled Van Bien's gym Friday, each moving between activities with a message scrawled across their chests: be the change that you wish to see in the world It was the first attempt by Prince George's inner ci