Local News

The secret to a successful marriage is to have a wife with a lot of patience. That's what Delbert Wood, better known as Deb, said while his patient wife, Dorothy, waited to add that it's important to marry a kind man like Deb.

Clues in the wreckage of Babine Forest Products and Lakeland Mills have brought investigators to the same general area of the two mills.

Three weeks after an explosion and fire destroyed the Lakeland Mills sawmill, fundraising to help employees and their families has reached the $155,000 mark, the Prince George Community Foundation said Monday.

After two years of planning, the Pine Centre Mall just got a little more kid-friendly. There's now a new indoor children's play area, Pine for Play, bringing the great outdoors inside with its camping theme.

The rising price for Canadian lumber is about to deliver an added benefit. The duty on exports into the U.S. will decline to 10 per cent from 15 per cent on June 1, after the composite price for softwood struck the $316 per thousand board feet level.

Dentists practising at Lakewood Dental Group will be setting up shop at the College of New Caledonia (CNC) for the summer while their home goes through a major renovation starting near the end of this month.

A log dump pile in the Cariboo backcountry caused an estimated $1 million damage and Quesnel RCMP are looking for a culprit. The fire occurred last Thursday on Baezaeko Road near the community of Nazko.

Almost 20 forest fires sparked up in the northeastern region of the province over the weekend and all of them were caused by humans. According to Jillian Chimko of the Prince George Fire Centre, 18 fires got their start.

Much of the city's transit service to the University of Northern British Columbia is about to take a summer holiday. Starting May 22 and lasting until Sept. 4, the following runs will be on hold: - Route 15 morning runs to the UNBC at 7:51 a.m.

The snowpacks in the Upper Fraser and Nechako basins are at "levels of concern for increased flood risk," the provincial government's River Forecast Centre says in its latest update.