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The city department responsible for snow clearing is asking for more than $6.6 million to improve operations.

The Backyardigans: Sea Deep in Adventure played to an excited crowd Feb. 18 at the Prince George Playhouse - but not everyone who came out for a good time left happy.

The SPCA is offering spaying and neutering at no cost on March 14. That's when 25 appointments are avaible at its 1909 Queensway clinic for "feral cats, barn cats, stray, free-roaming and loosely-owned cats.

Longtime Prince George Crown prosecutor Shannon Keyes has been appointed a provincial court judge, the Ministry of Justice said Thursday. Keyes will start her new job on Tuesday and will continue to be based in Prince George.

Eric Wayde Thor Johnson was sentenced Thursday to a further 40 days in jail after Prince George RCMP caught him driving a stolen pickup truck. Prior to sentencing Johnson, 30, had been in custody for for 110 days since his arrest Nov.

CNC has named a new president. The selection committee and college board chose Henry Reiser, dean of Trades and Technology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University to be their new operations boss.

Prince George is the site for a top-flight meeting next week., when the city's airport authority will host a two-day gathering of the BC Aviation Council.

Chamber of Commerce Week is underway in B.C. Prince George's business advocacy agency is busy with activities, including a lunch hour seminar today, and other events to boost the local economy one entrepreneur at a time.