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A week after supporters of the New Prosperity mine made their case in Ottawa, opponents have traveled to the nation's capital to lobby against the proposed open-pit copper and gold mine in the Cariboo.

A street-level drug dealer has been sentenced to three years in jail. Melvin Earl Neil Robinson, 55, was issued the term Friday in Prince George provincial court for three counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking from a Jan.

Operation Red Nose will not be put in jeopardy by a recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling that a designated driver injured in a crash caused by a drunken passenger is not covered by third-party liability insurance, the organization says.

It's busy week for the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George. Today at 3 p.m.

Northern B.C. is both a battleground and a field of dreams for the mining sector when it comes to aboriginal relations. Some of the best and worst relationships between mining companies and First Nations can be found in this region.

Like many medical conditions, treatment for an eating disorder is quicker if it's caught earlier.

The Raise A Reader campaign has handed out the $38,554.25 it raised in a one-day campaign last September to support 29 local literacy projects.

Smithers RCMP and the North District Major Crime Unit are investigating the stabbing death of 26-year-old Francis George Namox in Smithers on Friday, according to a statement issued by North District RCMP.

Firefighters were called to a fire at Brink Forest Products shortly before 4 p.m. on Saturday. RCMP and fire crews blocked River Road just east of the Cameron Street bridge while firefighters extinguished the fire.

The federal representative for the riding where media mogul David Black is seeking to build an export oil refinery is surprised a provincial Green Party MLA is supportive of the idea.