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Mayor Shari Green announced a mayor's select committee on business as her first action as the city's new mayor, Monday. Green said the committee will be made up of herself and several members of the business community.

Nearly two-and-a-half years after it was put on temporary closure, Canfor Corp. said Monday it has decided to permanently close its Rustad sawmill and pay nearly 150 employees severance for their years of service.

A suspect was caught masturbating in a city park this past weekend. At about 5:45 p.m. Sunday, Prince George RCMP received a complaint of the indecent act happening at Cottonwood Island Park near the boat launch on River Road.

It’s not just people who are looking forward to being with their families this holiday season.

Cariboo-Prince George MP Dick Harris says he continues to maintain a rental home in Prince George although he admits to spending "as much time as I'm able to in the Okanagan" where his wife had owned property for about a decade.

Student nurses at the College of New Caledonia will be better equipped for their studies as a result of deal cooked up by a pizza boss.

A trial for two British Columbia men accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a Dartmouth hotel didn't resume as scheduled Friday because one of the defendants is in custody on the West Coast.

On Monday a B.C. Supreme Court Justice reduced a conviction of second degree murder to manslaughter for Ricky John Smith in the 2004 death of Brent Melanson in the parking lot of a Prince George fast food restaurant.

City council approved a five per cent increase to water and sewer utility fees on Monday. For a single family home without a water meter, the increase will cost an additional $28.18 in 2012.

Women in 40-49 age group will still get systemic testing