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Business, academia team up for innovation

Scientists and researchers, meet entrepreneurs and business people. Industry folks, meet academics. The Innovation Central Society (ICS) will serve as host for a meeting May 9 between the region's innovators and academics.

Northern Gateway panel produces list of recomendations

Intervener groups and Northern Gateway have sparred for months during cross-examination over the amount of detail provided in the plan to build a heavy oil pipeline from Alberta to Kitimat.
Shoeless students create poverty awareness

Shoeless students create poverty awareness

The photos Dave Leman brought back from his tour of rural schools in Tanzania and Kenya told the tale of why a group of international students was walking barefoot Thursday around the College of New Caledonia.
Audrey Auger, mother and justice crusader, killed in crash

Audrey Auger, mother and justice crusader, killed in crash

The outspoken mother of a Prince George murder victim has fallen silent. Audrey Auger was relentless in her search for missing daughter Aielah Saric-Auger when the 14-year-old girl disappeared on Feb. 2, 2006.
NDP shows fiscal cards

NDP shows fiscal cards

The NDP presented a fiscal plan Thursday that calls for three years of deficits, tax increases on corporations and the wealthy as well as a broadening of the carbon tax.
Cancer agency condemns work of former P.G. doc

Cancer agency condemns work of former P.G. doc

Former Prince George medical oncologist Dr. Suresh Katakkar didn't follow any recognized treatment protocol for 10 per cent of his patients, according to a BC Cancer Agency investigation released Thursday.

New school for Giscome

After four years of uncertainty, the future of Giscome elementary school is about to be cast in concrete. Set against the spectacular backdrop of still-frozen Eaglet Lake and the snow-capped McGregor mountain range, work will soon begin on a $2.

Posthumous Memorial Cross to be awarded to Matters

A Canadian Forces decorated veteran who was fatally shot last year during an encounter with an RCMP emergency response team will be awarded a posthumous Memorial Cross.
Katakkar investigation finds unacceptable levels of care

Katakkar investigation finds unacceptable levels of care

An investigation by the BC Cancer Agency into former Prince George oncologist Dr. Suresh Katakkar found four instances of "potentially preventable, treatment-related death.
Otway fire raises questions

Otway fire raises questions

The cause of a Wednesday morning blaze that wreaked $50,000 damage to a 6100 block Otway Road sawmill and office building has been deemed suspicious, say Prince George Fire Rescue.