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The deadline has come and gone and while it wasn't unanimous, the organizing committee of the World Baseball Challenge has decided to go ahead with this year's tournament.

The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Prince George is getting into the transportation business.

Prince George RCMP will soon be hitting the trails and not-so-beaten paths with a new all-terrain vehicle.

Making the smallest environmental footprint possible is one of the goals of the 2015 Canada Winter Games, and now the organizers have pledged to do more in the name of sustainability.

Prince George is home to a healthcare superhero as Dr. Bill Clifford took home the top individual honour this week at the Excellence in B.C. Health Care awards.

Angela Cunningham, the newly-appointed general manager of the B.C. Northern Exhibition, formerly known as the PGX, has resigned just six weeks before this year's event. This year's exhibition is still a go.

The city is working to rejig development bylaws to reduce the amount of rubber-stamp applications that have to come before council.

The 2013 World Baseball Challenge will go ahead as planned. Although the organizing committee is still about $20,000 short of its funding target for the nine-day international tournament in August, the event will go on as planned.

A charity fundraiser for the Association Advocating for Women and Children (AAWAC) is set for Sat., July 13 at The Woods at Ness Lake golf course.

The Heart & Stroke Foundation is standing by its efforts to introduce more Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) into more public facilities, despite concerns raised about the 16-page contract accompanying the life-saving device.