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No static at all. For radio listeners of the city's UNBC campus radio station, CFUR 88.7 FM, tuning in to a Steely Dan classic wasn't always so clear. In a city surrounded by hills, its low-power transmitter never failed to find a few dead zones.

Name someone who reads the license agreement from beginning to end before clicking 'I Accept' when downloading a movie, a song, a game or a program off the Internet. Take your time.

It will likely take months to disclose what caused the death of Mika Sakari Saario. The 44-year-old Prince George man was killed one week ago while dismantling a planer at the Conifex Mill in Fort St. James.

A local logging company has harvested a national award but a protest has cut into the accolades.

The worst of the moths and mosquitoes could soon be over. When it comes to the moths, UNBC professor and forest entomologist Staffan Lindgren is advising people to "grin and bear" it for another week and a half before the outbreak starts to subside.

VICTORIA - Taseko Mines has been ordered to rewrite an environmental impact statement about a proposed gold and copper operation near Williams Lake after a federal agency concluded a draft was riddled with gaps, deficiencies and missing information.

Programs to help Prince George residents deal with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder will continue despite Tuesday's announcement that the Northern Family Health Society will close its doors next month.

The names of two early bird winners in the Prince George Hospice Society Dream Home Lottery were drawn Tuesday. Rob Engen won a Pelican 1-foot sit-in kayak and Blair Rice and Ruth MacNeil won a his and hers mountain bike package.

A lawyer asked a provincial court judge for leniency Tuesday in sentencing an elderly woman who killed a man during a wild drive along Ospika Boulevard two-and-a-half years ago.

BID group, Games sign deal worth $250,000