Local News

The Citizen has learned the victims of a fatal vehicle accident on Highway 97 early this morning was an employee of the newspaper and his family.

After a year in the black, Canfor Corporation has suffered a year in the red. The integrated forest company reported Wednesday a $56.6 million net loss, or 40 cents per share, for 2011, compared to an $81.

The Prince George YMCA is gearing up to launch the second Strong Kids campaign. This year, staff and volunteers have set a goal of raising $10,250 to send 60 under-privileged children to Camp Kanannaq this summer.

Up to five people died when a passenger vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer Thursday morning outside Williams Lake, B.C. RCMP said they were called around 10 a.m.

A local social agency is co-ordinating an effort to help former Victoria Towers residents get the money they're owed after they were burned out of their homes in early November.

A mining company's search for nickel northwest of Fort St. James has raised alarm bells for an Indian band in the area. The Tl'azt'en Nation issued a tersely-worded statement this week saying Fort St.

Carp Lake Provincal Park covers more than 48,000 Hectares, tying Carp Lake to the headwaters of the McLeod River. The endless bays and islands offer anglers a new experience each time out.

If any of the 192 cases of undocumented hereditary cancer reports the BC Cancer Agency is now investigating involve patients from northern B.C., they now know about it.

Matt Altizer, father of two, was a Citizen employee

The provincial government has called in one of its labour negotiations experts to try to end the seven-month old teachers' strike.