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To someone who has never been there before, it might be shocking to hear young children say they feel fortunate to have cancer. It wasn't so strange for Rachel Caira.

The BC Conservative leader may be on a "listening tour" of the Interior, but he has a pretty firm grasp of what he would like to see as a party platform.

A $1.6 million contract has been awarded to add 700 metres of passing lane to Highway 16 near the Tabor Mountain Ski Hill about 30 kilometres east of Prince George. Awarded to Prince George-based Roktek Services Inc.

School District 57 has set out nine spending priorities to use a $698,500 pool of accumulated surplus funding.

Even though there are normally acres of land between her house and the Fraser River, Louise Young's home has turned into waterfront property. But the 29-year Denicola Crescent resident isn't too concerned with the approaching water.

Medical science has worked wonders in prolonging the lives of children who develop cancer. For kids who get the disease, it's not nearly as deadly as it once was.

NewGold-Blackwater can't find where the end to its gold deposit. The company's president and CEO Robert Gallagher was up at the exploration site on Tuesday as drill rigs and geology crews crawled across the landscape testing for gold.

A B.C. Supreme Court Justice will consider whether to overturn a conviction against Coun. Brian Skakun for breaking the provincial privacy law and order a new trial.

A probe into the location and safety aspects of a Highway 16 brake inspection site in Beaverly continues, with no solution around the corner.

A B.C. Supreme Court ruling last week that gives the right of doctor-assisted suicide to terminally-ill patients is being hailed a triumph for society by a member of the Prince George Council of Seniors.