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Teachers across the province, including 900 in School District 57, will be taking a strike vote today.

The debate over a proposed stand-alone arena south of the Kin Centre is coming back to city council tonight. Mayor Dan Roger used his powers under the Community Charter to bring a reconsideration motion on the issue before council.

The Prince George Family YMCA is seeking $30,000 from the Northern Development Initiative Trust to support a $300,000 upgrade to its Massey Drive facility.

Teachers across the province, including 900 in School District 57, will be taking a strike vote on Monday.

City council will have a chance to reconsider its decision to build a stand-alone arena adjacent to the Kin Centre on Monday. Mayor Dan Rogers used his authority under the Community Charter to bring a reconsideration motion before council.

It's free and it's legal. That's why the library's new music database is called Freegal. The database allows library card holders to download as many as three songs per week from the Sony Music catalogue at no charge.

As of 2009, 208 city employees were earning $75,000 or more per year -and 62 were taking home more than $100,000 per year. City manager Derek Bates topped the list at City Hall with a 2009 salary of $194,263 and $10,406 in expenses.

Canfor Pulp is investing $10 million to operate a new research centre and start a new research program involving UNBC. The B.C.

Garett McComb and his girlfriend Brittney Geise were brutally murdered in a Prince George home in an organized crime clash in 2008. He was 23, she was 19. The family of McComb could not change the choices the young man made.

The Tisigar Lake fire has quietened down after rain dampened forest fuel. However, the fire, the largest in the province at 11,000 hectares, could spark up again with a forecast for warm and dry weather during the weekend in the area in Northern B.C.