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A man with a history of escaping from custody has received a nine-year prison sentence in connection with the confinement and torture of two women in Valemount.

Mental health issues, alcohol and drug addictions and domestic violence involving women are almost inextricably linked. The findings of medical researcher Jill Cory's studies of women's experiences in the past two years back that statement up.

From Prince George Provincial Court: Feb. 17 Ildiko Elizabeth Auxi was sentenced to a three-month conditional sentence for possession of a controlled substance.

No hot air was blown during the Prince George stage of FortisBC's hearings about consolidating natural gas rates. Only six people attended the all-afternoon session at the Prince George Civic Centre on Friday.

Colleen Sparrow is the Prince George Citizen's new full-time publisher.

Harm reduction mechanisms, needle exchanges, safe injection sites and crack pipe delivery services for drug users funded by taxpayer dollars generate controversy and have become prominent media issues.

Between Dec. 31, 2011 and Jan. 31, 2012, the Prince George RCMP responded to a number of shoplifting reports from a variety of local Prince George businesses. Security surveillance has identified the same suspect in many of these events.

Ashley Anderson and Forest Tower went to the Taiwan International Science Fair to showcase the merits of their invention to bring biofuel technology to Third World countries.

The procession of New Democratic Party leadership hopefuls continues tomorrow morning. One of the contest's two female candidates, Toronto-area MP Peggy Nash, stops in Prince George as part of a tour through the B.C.

Construction begins Monday on SkyLab, a renovation project to add nearly 1,000 square feet of new space for public access to computers and the Internet at the Prince George Public Library's Bob Harkins branch.