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Prince George immigrants hoping to receive workplace-specific English language training as part of a $5.5 million government-funded pilot project will have to wait a few months.

Last Thursday's B.C. Supreme Court decision giving council the go ahead to punish Brian Skakun ensured this council ended its effective term with a whimper not a bang.

It seems frustration over a disparity of wealth distribution has peaked in Prince George along with so many other cities in North America. Since Sept. 17, protests have occupied at Wall Street in New York City, and spread to cities across the U.S.

After eight years at the helm of the Northern Medical Program (NMP), Dr. David Snadden has received a promotion.

City council candidate Travis Shaw unveiled his election platform in a low-key press conference on Tuesday. Shaw, better known as gender-bending entertainer Foxy de Rossi, said he hopes his ability to engage people will be a benefit on city council.

A consultation process has begun for a major overhaul of how the province's resource roads are regulated and Central Interior Logging Association executive director MaryAnne Arcand cannot emphasize enough the importance of the issues being tackled.

A young man well known to police is wanted again by Prince George Mounties, but not for what you might think. Tyler Eugene Fetterly, 26, has attracted police attention on a number of publicized occasions, but this time the call-out is for his help.

Waiting until after the HST is scrapped before buying a new home will pose no advantage,says a Prince George builder who blames the slow-going construction in part on the provincial government's decision to scrap the tax in about 18 months time.

Conservation officer Gary Van Spengen is asking hunters to go one step further after the remains of a moose was found on a road within city limits on Tuesday morning.

A burglary suspect was simultaneously nabbed by a Mountie on foot coming from one direction and a police service dog coming from another, and ended up automatically busted by probation authorities at the same time.