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Powerex managing director T.M. Bechard was B.C.'s most highly paid public sector executive according to disclosure reports the provincial government released Tuesday. Bechard pulled down $1.

Susanne and Elroy Sovic have been shocked to learn people are still falling for the same well-worn letter scams.

A teenaged girl is dead due to a series of driving mistakes on Quesnel-Hixon Road, a route just west of Highway 97 and north of downtown Quesnel.

Police and ambulance crews have to sometimes contend with intoxicated antics that appear serious on the surface, then their true nature becomes known. Such was the case on Monday morning before 9 a.m.

Crews will be paving an additional 1.25 kilometres of the road voted the worst in B.C. by members of the B.C. Automobile Association. Paving will begin Sept. 6 on the northbound lanes of Ospika Boulevard between Massey Drive and Ferry Avenue.

Education minister George Abbott is maintaining an arm's length approach to the ongoing contract talks between teachers and the province's bargaining agent. In a conference call with northern B.C.

Prince George-based Napp Enterprises has been awarded a $417,000 contract to demolish the Prince George Hotel.

Fog is limiting visibility on Highway 97 South, DriveBC is warning. The service, provided by the B.C. transportation ministry, says the trouble is noticeably from 26 kilometres north of Hixon to 30 kilometres north of Quesnel.

The City of Prince George will delay a censure hearing against councillor Brian Skakun to allow the B.C. Supreme Court time to hear an injunction petition by the embattled official. At a special meeting on Wednesday, city council extended the Sept.

A class of 16 students from the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) and their instructors recently completed the first detailed assessment of biodiversity in a historically significant section of B.C.'s Skeena estuary.