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The Regional District of Fraser-Fort George (FFGRD) will be marketing emission offsets created from the landfill gas collection system at the Foothills Boulevard Regional Landfill and will receive a $525,000 advance to get the project going.

Becky Thompson and a group of Burns Lake volunteers are the aftereffects of the Babine blast, and they're warning support agencies to be ready.

A parolee who went on the lam in Kelowna in Kelowna was tracked down in Quesnel Friday. Aaron Craig Sutherland, 33, was arrested by the Quesnel RCMP after being wanted on a Canada-wide warrant.

A drastic drop in the price of low-grade lumber was one of the reasons West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. suffered a a $10.6-million loss from operations in its latest quarter, CEO Hank Ketcham said Friday in a conference call.

Crisis line volunteers are needed in Prince George. The deadline to apply for the next round of beginners' training is Monday.

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.

Although it's a little later in the season than in years past, the Northern Women's Centre is still offering the chance for women to take a mid-winter afternoon's break. The third annual Spa Day takes place from 1 to 4 p.m.

Dean McKinley knows Burns Lake so well, when he first saw the floral art car parked under the town's Welcome sign, he knew who it used to belong to when it was street legal.

City of Prince George council took heat from several environmental groups on Wednesday for "wiping out" the municipal environmental services department. On Jan.

If Initiatives Prince George president Tim McEwan left his position to take another job, he should not be receiving severance pay, stated Mayor Shari Green in an e-mailed response to an inquiry from Coun. Brian Skakun.