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WorkSafeBC has issued almost 800 dust-related orders to sawmills and wood manufacturing facilities since the destruction and deaths resulting from last year's explosions at Babine Forest Products in Burns Lake and Lakeland Mills in Prince George.

The implementation of a fee for small loads being dumped at the Foothills landfill has been delayed.

After more than four years, the head of the local YMCA is stepping down. Mark Miller, the chief executive officers with the YMCA of Northern B.C. announced to staff Thursday that he had resigned his position.

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With Monday's decision to keep open the Pine Valley Golf Course, city council struck another item off of the list of cost-saving or revenue-generating opportunities identified in the core services review process.

City council said yes Monday to a request from the 2013 World Baseball Challenge for $10,000 to help pay for bleachers.

The last of their kind in police cruisers are about to take to the city's streets. Two Ford Crown Victoria police interceptors arrived at the Prince George RCMP detachment this week and will soon begin service, Cpl. Craig Douglass said Wednesday.

A Prince George man is threatening to take the law into his own hands after the federal government announced new regulations this week that will change the way Canadians access marijuana for medical purposes.

The pace of house construction in the city is continuing to go through turbulence, according to the latest Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation numbers.

It was "three strikes, you're out" for several motorists passing through Hixon earlier this week.