Local News

Doctors in the U.S. report how singing helped an elderly woman prepare for surgery. The case involved a 76-year-old woman whose blood pressure was too high to be admitted for total hip replacement surgery caused by osteoarthritis..

Child Care Resource & Referral in Prince George invites all childcare providers to attend the Champion in Childcare Recognition and Gala Dinner 2011, on April 30 from 6 to 10 p.m. in the Civic Centre.

The BC Human Resources Management Association (BC HRMA) has announced the finalists for the 2011 Rising Star Award - including one HR professional from Prince George.

Highway 16 East three kilometres east of Slim Creek is closed in both directions because of an accident that left a propane truck on fire, according to Drive B.C. There is no estimated time of opening.

Originally set for Tuesday, a seven-day detention review by the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) for Francois (Frankie) Meerholz has been rescheduled to Thursday afternoon.

The mountain pine beetle epidemic will be both a boon and a bane for British Columbia, however, there is more good news than bad in the lumber sector's future, forest industry consultant Russ Taylor told a Prince George audience Wednesday.

Alleged Prince George gangster Joey Arrance has secured a lawyer but when his cases - and that of Kirsten Fredin - will go to trial remain up in the air.

At the national level, the federal parties are driving home family-friendly agendas aimed at providing financial relief, and that campaign is trickling down to the regional level in Northern B.C.

Science is all around, and is the basis of the top jobs of tomorrow. By the end of this decade, three-quarters of all B.C.

The engineering work that followed the Nechako ice jam has turned out to be an award winner.