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City hoping to fix museum mistake

City hoping to fix museum mistake

The city will ask the province for permission to write off some unpaid property taxes after a mistake left a community group with an outstanding bill.
Performing arts boosters look for help from NDIT

Performing arts boosters look for help from NDIT

The group championing a performing arts centre is hoping to sway public opinion in their favour.
Tulip ceremony marks Dutch liberation

Tulip ceremony marks Dutch liberation

Bill Zwiers was only six years old during the Hongerwinter (Hunger Winter) of 1944-45, which saw about 22,000 people starve to death in the Nazi-occupied western provinces of the Netherlands.
Highway 16 East closed

Highway 16 East closed

Highway 16 near Tete Jaune Cache will remain closed until noon on Monday due to a Saturday mudslide. Drive B.C. reports the mudslide occurred two kilometres east of the junction with Highway 5.

CNC trades program for high school students expanded

High school students looking to get a jump on careers in the trades through CNC will have a broader range of vocations to choose from.

Cancer disrupts P.G. family

Seeing one pupil significantly larger than the other in their daughter's eyes, the parents of three-year-old Audrey Saulters wondered what would cause such a thing. A week later, there was a nickel-sized lump on the side of Audrey's neck.

Appeal court upholds collision decision

The B.C. Court of Appeal upheld a lower court decision that found the plaintiff was actually at fault for a wintertime collision in Prince George. Vanessa Harris appealed the decision arguing that B.C.

Unemployment rate rises to 5.5 per cent

The city's unemployment rate climbed to 5.5 per cent in March, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers released Friday. That's up from 4.7 per cent in April as the number of people holding down jobs declined by 900 to 49,300.

Nonstop to Calgary

Prince George flew through the WestJet test period. On Friday, the airline said it would be continuing to offer its daily direct connection to Calgary.

Touching The Earth

The rain poured in buckets onto Fort George Park on Friday but the kids were doing handstands in the torrent, smearing their face-paint designs into watery abstract art, and rocking their bodies to the live hiphop of aboriginal duo Mob Bounce.