Local News

Prince George city crews were busy removing snow from Frontage Road, along the Hart Highway, to Foothills Boulevard on Thursday.

Shirley Bond won't be crossing the floor to the Conservatives anytime soon.

Seven local organizations will receive a total of $106,564 in civil forfeiture grants for crime prevention initiatives.

The provincial government has pried open the bars on its girls' custody plans, but the program is still a lock.

The Canadian Avalanche Centre is rating as considerable the avalanche danger in the alpine of the North Columbia-Cariboo mountains for this weekend.

Prince George will be covered in yellow for the month of April to celebrate the Canadian Cancer Society's Daffodil month. Since the 1950s, bright yellow daffodils have arrived in communities across Canada to mark the month.

The federal Conservatives say they will limit joint panel environmental reviews to 24 months and the rule could be applied to Enbridge's controversial Northern Gateway pipeline proposal currently in the middle of the process.

Members of the public became concerned and called police on Wednesday at about 2 p.m. when a 17-year-old male was seen walking in the area of Tabor Boulevard and 1st Avenue carrying a handgun in plain view.

At least one suspect was identified by police as being criminally responsible for the fire at Victoria Towers. The Prince George apartment building was effectively destroyed by the smoke from the blaze on Nov. 3.

Neil Godbout has been appointed managing editor of the Prince George Citizen, publisher Colleen Sparrow announced Friday. Godbout previously spent 10 years at the Citizen, eight of them as news editor.