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The city's six mayoralty candidates had different ideas on how to capitalize on hosting the 2015 Canada Winter Games Tuesday.

The needs of rural schools, the ability of school boards to localize collective bargaining, funding shortfalls and whether teachers should be penalized monetarily for their job action were among the topics discussed Wednesday night at an all-candidat

Running for school board trustee

A B.C. Supreme Court Justice has dismissed a Prince George wood lot owner's petition for a judicial review of a decision to increase the stumpage for the timber harvested on the property.

Prince George will be among the communities that the federal joint review panel for the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project will visit twice during the public consultation portion of the process.

Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore downplayed environmental concerns surrounding Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline while in Prince George on Monday. "It's just a pipeline," Moore said in an interview.

The board of Prince George's school district 57 has written a letter to B.C. Premier Christy Clark requesting that the government intervene to end the teachers strike.

A real estate consultant is rating Prince George the 10th best place in B.C. to invest.

Cariboo North MLA Bob Simpson has introduced a private members bill to repeal legislation around the provincial government's carbon credit scheme as part of his ongoing campaign to give public agencies a fairer shake.

The identity of a deceased adult male is still a mystery even after an autopsy. Quesnel RCMP located the human remains on Oct. 31 in a wooded area near Blair Street. They described the body's condition as skeletal, with no obvious signs of foul play.