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Dawson Creek RCMP are alleging that at least one cab driver in the Peace-country city is under suspicion of multiple sex assaults and forcible confinement incidents, using his taxi as a prop in the crime. There are two cab companies in Dawson Creek.

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is calling on the federal government to help communities address a critical shortage of affordable rental housing.

Two small children are dead from a house fire in Mackenzie. The twin 18-month-old boy and girl, did not survive the flames that engulfed a home on Kerry Crescent only a few blocks from the town's downtown.

Initiatives Prince George is changing leadership and it's not clear what it will mean for the city's economic development agency. IPG announced the resignation of president Tim McEwan yesterday.

Northern Health has undertaken an initiative to redesign the way senior's care is delivered in Prince George.

The sales and service industries are the targeted focus of a new provincial government skills training program that will provide $150,000 to the Native Friendship Centre.

The company behind an so-called eco-industrial park west of McBride says it has landed a major customer. Seattle-based ecoTech Energy Group Inc. filed a statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission saying it reached a five-year $61.

The B.C. government is going beyond its borders to find civil engineers when those jobs could just as well go to local students - if sought after programs were established, say two Prince George post-secondary representatives.

After her husband passed away in 1996, Patricia Bowler knew caring for the 4,800-square-foot home the couple bought in 1970 was going to be impossible. But when she and her family began looking into seniors homes, the results were disappointing.

Rio Tinto Alcan announced the transfer of 11,690 acres of land to the Cheslatta Carrier Nation on Monday. The land is made up of 64 properties, with an estimated value of $1.