Local News

The diesel shortage that has gripped the prairies is starting to be felt in Prince George.

The city's unemployment rate stood at 6.8 per cent in November, a 0.4-percentage-point decline from the month before, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers released Friday.

The B.C. Coroner called for extra care to be taken in the backcountry now that avalanches are a present danger.

Patients are stacking up in Prince George's hospital emergency room because there is a shortage of seniors' care and other social infrastructure.

It'll be lucky seven when Kady Dandeneau takes to the UNBC basketball court tonight when the Timberwolves women line-up against the Vancouver Island Mariners.

A survey of 205 B.C. corrections officers has revealed more than one in four were physically assaulted by an inmate in the past year, and nearly 40 per cent were hit with feces, blood or other bodily fluids.

WestJet has finished its 11-week temporary direct service from Prince George to Las Vegas. WestJet spokesperson Robert Palmer said it's too early to determine if the service will be brought back on a permanent basis.

Feed the hungry and cure the sick. For the month of December, Prince George blood donors can do both with one fell swoop.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd.(Canfor) has been granted leave to appeal a B.C. Supreme Court decision that has prevented the company from logging in an area west of Prince George important to the Wet'suwet'en First Nation. In a ruling issued Nov.

Imperial Metals Corp. is planning to expand its Huckleberry copper and molybdenum mine southwest of Houston and add seven years to its life in the process.