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The mid-winter blahs were quickly forgotten Monday as Prince George celebrated its first Family Day holiday. "It's awesome because it's a long winter," Sheryl Wiebe said while enjoying the day with her family at Exploration Place.

As a teacher from Hazelton, where 85 per cent of the student population is aboriginal, Sheena Seymour knows her students don't like to talk about the problems of their home life and their sometimes dysfunctional families.

City council will decide whether they're going to cut a cheque to relieve the tax pressure from local non-profit organizations on Wednesday. As part of the budget deliberation process, beginning at 3:30 p.m.

When Pope Benedict XVI surprised the Catholic world by announcing his pending retirement on Monday speculation immediately turned to his successor and a Canadian is near the top of the list.

Police arrested Lloyd William Cook on Monday morning, 11 days after he failed to show up in court to hear the verdict in a trial into the events surrounding the death of his stepson in 2000.

There is now some ginger in PWB ale. Pacific Western Brewing Company, maker of the Cariboo line of beer products, has added a second soda to the family. The Prince George-based brewing company began producing its own brand of root beer last month.

If Gail Vaz-Oxlade was calling the shots as an public school educator for teens about to graduate, she'd make sure every high school in Canada had a mandatory course in financial planning.

Two years out. Less than a week to wait. To be more precise, there are only a few days left before the 2015 Canada Winter Games Committee hosts its two-years-out celebration.

Those traipsing out to the backcountry for Family Day are asked to do so with caution.

Prince George's unemployment rate stood at 4.5 per cent in January, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers released Friday, up slightly from 4.2 per cent seen during December but markedly lower than the 8.