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A loosening of the rules around how Agricultural Land Reserve property may be used could help the viability producers in the north, according to Regional District of Fraser-Fort George director Lara Beckett.

As controversy continues to swirl around the impending start of the province's newest stewardship program, the agency at the forefront continues to make steps towards implementation. This week, Multi-Material B.C.

The city is patching fewer potholes per year than it used to, according to a report from operations director Bill Gaal. In 2009, more than 26,000 potholes were repaired on city streets.

Downtown business owners are worried that there will be more unintended consequences to the new fee structure for off-street parking.

Prince George RCMP Supt. Eric Stubbs is moving on, city hall confirmed Thursday.

When the federal cabinet formally rejected the New Prosperity copper and gold mine, they did so with a four-sentence news release issued on the evening of Feb. 26.

A north-south pact will bring Lower Mainland students under the UNBC umbrella. The deal was signed Thursday afternoon in Vancouver between the presidents of Langara College and the northern university.

Tyler Sabourin, an associate news editor with the Prince George Citizen, took home the top prize in the photo illustration category of the Canadian Community Newspaper Awards Thursday. Sabourin was honoured for his work on the Wednesday, Sept.

George the Barber survived 594 months in his one and only location, but getting through the last six to make it an even 50 years will be a challenge. He is being evicted from the only home his business has ever known.

A man who drove a pickup truck the wrong way along Fourth Avenue downtown was taken to hospital late Thursday morning after he hit two cars, then a light standard before coming to a stop just past Brunswick Street.