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Laurie Meier commanded the stage at Elder Citizens Recreation Association with his banjo in hand and won the crowd over with his quick strumming and yodeling at the first ever Seniors Idol contest on Saturday night.

Mr. PG is all bundled up today, but it's not just to protect him from the wintery elements. The Prince George icon is wearing fleece this week to promote National Sweater Day. On Feb.

On Monday the Fraser Institute released its annual ranking of B.C. elementary schools. A total of 22 local schools were amoung the 860 schools ranked in the province.

The Ministry of Environment and the Northern Health Authority issued an air quality advisory for Prince George today.

Page-by-page, nickel-by-nickel, local personal injury lawyer Garth Wright has won a victory in an ongoing battle with the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) that could really add up.

Work on Highway 97 south of Prince George has earned an engineering firm an award.

Lakeland Mill was the site of a fire on Sunday morning that took all morning to put entirely out. Prince George Fire Rescue Service sent crews to battle the blaze at about 8 a.m. and they remained on the scene until approximately 2 p.m.

Raising a child comes with many added stresses, not to mention a bigger financial burden for the parents, so when circumstances force grandparents into the same role, the burden gets amplified even more.

Highway 16 West was reopened to single lane traffic one kilometre east of Bednesti at 9 a.m. today, about seven hours after a fully-loaded chip truck caught fire forced the stretch to be closed.

Fifteen out of 22 local schools ranked below the provincial average in the Fraser Institute's annual report card on elementary schools, released on Monday.