Local News

Public hearings into the proposed Northern Gateway project will take on a different flavour this week.

What was originally floated as a single nature interpretive centre 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.

It might not have looked like it last week, with an air quality advisory in effect, but Prince George industries, the permitted sources of air pollution, are cleaning up their act.

A high-end mountain bike has been stolen from a retailer at the Pine Centre Mall. A green Jamis brand Dakar XCT 2 was taken from Sport Mart during an early-morning break-in Wednesday.

The sight and smell of railway locomotives churning out blue diesel smoke has become all too familiar for people who venture close to the downtown CN railyard.

With the resource sector in northern B.C. booming, Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen wants to make it easier for people to understand which projects are right for the region.

A Prince George man was sentenced Monday to 18 months in jail for the July 2010 death of a friend when he lost control of his pickup truck and ran into a telephone pole.

Money raised through the provincial government's civil forfeiture program will go to a trio of Prince George-based non-profit organizations to help counter local crime issues, violence against women and human trafficking.

A second helping of food film is being served at UNBC. Prince George's Public Interest Research Group (PGPIRG) is hosting the second installment in their Food: Global to Local film series.

Skyfest now has Canada's best. The world renowned air demonstration team from the Royal Canadian Air Force - the Snowbirds - will be in Quesnel this Aug. 3 and 4, said Tina Mitchell of the Quesnel Skyfest Society.