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The Victoria Towers is starting to fill up. Tenants started moving into the building in February, a B.C. Housing representative said Tuesday, and will continue to do so as more units are made ready. B.C.

With the loss of 209 direct jobs and an estimated 800 spin-off jobs affected, thanks to the closure of Canfor's Quesnel sawmill, the Cariboo city is in recovery mode.

Local residents can look forward to unlimited packaging and printed paper recycling when the curbside pickup program begins in Prince George this September. According to Ed Walsh, Emterra Environmental's B.

The B.C. NDP repeated its call for a public inquiry into the Babine Forest Products explosion this week, going so far as to draw up a draft terms of reference for the investigation.

At the same time the government is planning to liberalize the province's drinking laws, a new study by a Northern Medical Program researcher makes a case for increasing the minimum drinking age.

When Prince George-Peace River MP Bob Zimmer made his maiden speech in the House of Commons, Jim Flaherty reminded Zimmer that he had big shoes to fill replacing longtime MP Jay Hill.

Friends and colleagues remembered MaryAnne Arcand on Tuesday for her many business and service accomplishments. Arcand died of cancer Monday in Prince George. She was 59.

Prince George RCMP are investigating a report of a robbery at gunpoint.

NDP leader Adrian Dix will be in Prince George this morning, offering updates on efforts to have a public, independent inquiry in the Babine Forest Products explosion.

A jury has found a Prince George man guilty of manslaughter in the 2012 death of a Calgary man. The verdict against Joel Christopher Marchand, 31, for the death of Chris Ball, 39, was reached after a 10-day trial.