Local News

Police and emergency services were on their way to a reported collision on Highway 97 North about 20 kilometres south of McLeod Lake, Prince George RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass said this morning.

Health science professionals will work longer hours, but get higher base pay, if a tentative deal announced Thursday is ratified.

Two people are in custody and "significant amounts" of cocaine and heroin were seized following a police raid early Thursday morning of a home in the VLA, Prince George RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass said.

A Surrey man was the victim of Monday's motor vehicle incident near Hixon, 63 kilometres south of Prince George, according to the B.C. Coroners Service.

Every two weeks since the middle of December, the Prince George RCMP's officer in charge of operations, Insp. Brad Anderson, has been identifying for extra attention two prolific offenders and a property whose address has become well known to police.

The love of high school students for J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit in book and movie form is unmistakable. Long lineups of teens flocking to the movies and the dog-earred novels always out on loan at the D.P.

A rural Fort St. James man has been acquitted of running a marijuana grow operation after a provincial court judge found that RCMP had violated his Charter rights in the process of seizing 235 plants from his property.

A letter sent five years ago from Vancouver Island high school teacher Don McRae to then-B.C. Education Minister Shirley Bond has come back to haunt McRae now that he's the provincial education minister. McRae was a teacher at Georges P.

The Prince George Council of Seniors (PGCOS) is moving their office from 1055 Fifth Avenue to 721 Victoria St. The office is now closed and the new office will open Monday, Feb. 4 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

WorkSafe BC and the Compensation Employees' Union have reached a tentative agreement on a two-year contract.