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The Downtown Business Improvement Association is calling on the provincial government to honour its commitment to create a Wood Innovation and Design Centre in Prince George - and locate hundreds of provincial employees in it.

A team of recovering addicts cut down the veils hiding the drug trafficking going on at the Ranch Motel - a place some of them used to frequent themselves.

City environment manager Dan Adamson may not have to draft a bylaw banning household use of cosmetic pesticides in Prince George depending on the outcome of a provincial government effort to impose a similar prohibition B.C.-wide.

A former Prince George man will make a first appearance in Victoria provincial court next week on a charge of murder. Joshua Tyler Bredo, 26, is scheduled to enter a plea in relation to the Aug. 3 stabbing death of Daniel Jordan Levesque, 20.

Northern B.C.'s biggest bridal show is in its 20th year and it's time to shake things up.

For the second month in a row, the value B.C. exports of softwood lumber to China surpassed the value shipped to the United States. In June, $130 million worth of softwood lumber was shipped to China compared with $125 million that was sold to the U.

It will be some time yet before it's know how many BC Hydro jobs in Prince George are at stake as a result of a review panel recommending the utility cut up to 1,200 jobs, says a spokeswoman for a union representing employees at the Crown corporation

A woman accused of killing a McLeod Lake man is scheduled to make a first appearance in Mackenzie provincial court next week.

Local sick people are worried the government is trying to nip their medicine in the bud.

An alleged Prince George gangster is scheduled to enter a plea on charges from a March arrest that could result in his removal from the country if he's found guilty.