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Legal action is looking more likely for the opponents of the women's recovery centre in the former Haldi Road elementary school. "We have met with Roy [Stewart], our lawyer," confirmed Haldi Road Committee member Laura Jagodnik.

A UNBC student and Northern Medical Program hopeful has been shortlisted for a Health Innovation Challenge award.

Prince George RCMP have received a report of a stranger offering a child a ride while she was walking to an elementary school. The incident was reported to have occurred on Monday at about 8:20 a.m.

The search for a new chief administrative officer could be coming to a close shortly. "City council continues to work with our recruiting firm to find the next city manger for Prince George," said Mayor Shari Green.

A Prince George company is taking the national stage. Patricia Carr, owner of K9 Kelp, has received the call from CBC's The Dragon's Den to head to Toronto next month to make her pitch to the sought-after panel of investors.

A cedar strip canoe built by a jailed woodworker has been donated by the city's prison to benefit outdoor recreation and education. Prince George Regional Correctional Centre has stored the 14-foot canoe since it was built in 1998.

What was originally floated as a single nature interpretive centreg focused on the local ecology has now blossomed into a plan for a set of sites, each one emphasizing a different element of the city's natural abundance.

Last year, Emily O'Reilly won a silver medal at the Canada-wide science fair when she successfully proved her apricot kernel extracts had a toxic effect on live cervical cancer cells.

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld once made the observation that the average person fears public speaking more than they fear death.

The deadly sawmill explosions last year in Burns Lake and Prince George inspired Alex Koenig and Austin Douglas to create a Central Interior Science Exhibition experiment to demonstrate the explosive power of sawdust.