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Securing enough timber to rebuild Babine Forest Products will take some shuffling, provincial Jobs Minister Pat Bell said Friday during an update on the campaign to soften the blow Burns Lake has suffer with the loss of the community's main employer.

Fans of operatic vocal stylings will have to wait an extra day for their live music fix. Due to a scheduling conflict, The Canadian Tenors have moved the date of their Prince George performance at CN Centre from Wednesday, May 23 to Thursday, May 24.

It seems Harwin elementary school has gone to the dogs. And all those canines, cats, rabbits, and an assortment of other animal species stand to benefit from an SPCA pet toy and food drive spearheaded by a group of Harwin students.

The campaign to convert the old Rustad sawmill into a trades training school is continuing.

A Calgary company is looking at Crown land near Summit Lake as a possible location for a plant to make a widely used ingredient in commercial fertilizers. Channel West Partners Inc.

Fort St. James RCMP will have access to the latest thermographic imaging technology, thanks to a grant from the B.C Civil Forfeiture program.

A September drug bust and weapons seizure in the VLA has led to jail time for a Prince George man who is also facing sexual assault charges from an alleged incident in a Dartmouth, Nova Scotia hotel room two-and-a-half years ago.

A month-long celebration of diversity is about to begin at the Two Rivers Gallery. The event starts Friday, March 30, with a story telling and image making workshop led by by artist Aiden Callison and Cat Sivertsen of Welcome PG. It runs from 3:30 p.

Prince George residents who would like to become part of a new installation planned for the Prince George airport will get their chance on Saturday, March 31. That's when public artwork artist Aiden Callison will be at UNBC, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

With all the technological distractions, it has become increasingly more difficult to tune young people into reading.