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Connaught Hill Park will open for the season this Saturday. Gates to the park will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. from April though August. From September to October, the park will be open 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The days of studded tires are rolling to an end for another year. RCMP are reminding drivers that studded tires have to be changed over within the next two weeks. "They have to be off by May 1," said North District RCMP spokeswoman Cpl.

The union representing workers at the Endako molybdenum mine has failed to convince the Labour Relations Board (LRB) to impose to extend the time limit on revival of a decertification campaign.

The cost of owning a home in Prince George stood at about a third of that in Vancouver, according to a B.C. Northern Real Estate Board study released Thursday.

A Prince George man's apparent attempt to take the fall for two other accused men fell short of convincing the judge in Prince George provincial court Wednesday.

A reward is being offered for the return of a hand-built travel trailer someone stole from a Prince George yard over the weekend. When Brad Russell went to bed on Friday night at about 11:30, the trailer was still on his property.

Thirty people in northern British Columbia have begun a five-week training program to learn the skills necessary to work as log or chip truck drivers and heavy equipment operators in the forestry industry.

Although she has worked to raise money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation for nearly 14 years, it wasn't until recently that Suzanne Anderson truly understood how the funds help those in need.

The forecast in a confidential provincial government report of extensive forest sector job loss in the Central Interior is coming as no surprise to Council of Forest Industries president John Allan, but he expressed disappointment in the way it has b

An arrest has been made and a police investigation is underway in the death of a former Prince George man in the Lower Mainland. Darcy Garnot, 37, was struck and killed on a Chilliwack street Sunday evening.