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Two big players in the Northern Gateway pipeline debate took to Twitter on Thursday afternoon trying to make their case about the dangers presented to tanker traffic off the west coast.

Up until 1917, the city's fire truck was drawn by a team of horses.

A trial date has been set for accused serial killer Cody Alan Legebokoff. During a hearing in Vancouver, Sept. 9, 2013 was set as the start date for the trial in B.C. Supreme Court in Prince.

Businesses based on science and technology have a new advocate in Prince George. The Innovation Central Society is a reboot of the defunct Innovation Resource Centre (that organization folded in 2010 after 15 years).

Plans to establish a Northern Supportive Recovery Centre are back before city council Monday night. An application for a zoning change to allow a 30-bed women's facility in the former Haldi Road elementary school is up for first and second reading.

Pittman Asphalt Ltd. of Prince George has won a Deputy Minister's Contractor of the Year Award for its paving work on Prince George area roads.

Below is The Citizen's shortlist for newsmaker of the year in Prince George. We'd like your help in picking this year's most significant newsmaker. Keep reading, make up your mind and then drop us a line at [email protected] with your pick.

A former Prince George resident was sentenced to two years less a day of house arrest for his role in a January 2011 home invasion.

Snowy owls are dying all over B.C., likely because of an overly healthy population in the far north.

A pipeline is under construction across the local landscape, only a few minutes' drive off of the Blackwater Road. There is nothing in the pipe. It isn't connected to anything and it goes nowhere.