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Making a shift to casting local and provincial ballots online won't have much effect on voter turnout numbers, suggests a new report on Internet voting in B.C.

Alan Doyle and Great Big Sea haven't lost a thing after performing for 20 years. The band got the CN Centre crowd of 2000 hopping Thursday night.

At-risk youth added some colour Wednesday to the business skills they've been learning in their Future Cents program. They also added some colour to downtown Prince George.

Any B.C. resident who expects to visit a hospital or residential care facility during influenza season this year will be eligible for a free flu shot. The province has issued new rules this year for who qualifies for the publicly funded vaccine.

It had to be instantly interesting to make it into this calendar, said editor Mark Forsythe of CBC's B.C. Almanac.

A decade ago, Prince George was desperate for physicians of all stripes, but now conditions have improved so much that Northern Health has turned some specialists away due to lack of available spaces.

Budget: $26; Total spent: $25.65 One dozen eggs, $2.69 Two litres of two per cent milk, $2.35 Yogurt, 750 millilitres, $2.49 One baguette, $1.59 Two bananas, $0.64 Three apples, $0.72 Seven oranges, $2.76 One onion, $0.50 One zucchini, $0.

UNBC has scored high in another national survey of Canadian universities. The local institution has made a habit of high scores in the Maclean's Magazine rankings, and now they have achieved high marks from the Globe and Mail's 2013 version.

October is Community Living month, says a City of Prince George proclamation and in celebration AiMHi is hosting an open house at 950 Kerry St., Tuesday, Oct. 29 from 3 to 7 p.m.

Three-quarters into the year and permits for $96.4 million worth of construction have been taken out at city hall, according to a report issued this week. That's slightly less than the $98.