Local News

A bullet was shot into a motorist's tires Thursday morning in the 10,000 block of the Hart Highway. "Officers attended the area and spoke with a group of four males about the incident," said Prince George RCMP spokeswoman Const. Julie Champagne.

Young writers are invited to find their niche as they take part in the third annual Prince George Citizen Raise-a-Reader Youth Writing Camp held at the university July 26 to 29.

The waters of the Fraser River have stopped rising - for the time being. As of Saturday morning, the river was showing a slow decline after peaking at 9.7 metres at the South Fort George gauge.

Luke Degerness walked out of his mom Gina's life a confused, angry teenaged boy. She desperately hopes he will walk back into her life a grown man. Degerness was 14 when he left a meeting at the PGSS vice principal's office on June 7, 2007.

The Gutsy Walk for Crohn's and Colitis goes Sunday at 10 a.m. at UNBC's Northern Sports Centre. For more information and to register visit www.gutsywalk.

Barkerville Historic Town and the Cariboo Gold Rush celebrate 150 years with the Honourable Iona Campagnolo as the keynote speaker during the Barkerville-UNBC Heritage Symposium Gala held tonight at UNBC.

The Drug Awareness Recovery Team (DART) had a workforce of six handling sandbags Thursday while City of Prince George sand trucks filled them with sand in preparation for possible local flooding along the rising Fraser River.

When Coun. Cameron Stolz threw his support behind the person he believed to be the best for a spot on the Federation of Canadian Muncipalities' (FCM) executive, it wasn't fellow Prince George representative Coun. Garth Frizzell.

Carrier Sekani Tribal Council tribal chief David Luggi is questioning the validity of Enbridge's claim of support among First Nations for its proposed Northern Gateway pipeline.

Highway 16 was closed in both directions for several hours Thursday, cutting off the only route between Prince George and McBride. "Kenneth Creek has blown its banks," said RCMP Cpl.