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Yes, it's free and it's legal. That's why it's called Freegal. The Prince George Library has a new music database where library card holders can download as many as three songs per week from the Sony Music catalogue at no charge.

NovaGold and Teck Resources have approved a $30.5 million budget to carry out further work in 2011 on their jointly-owned Galore Creek project in Northern B.C.

Striking Finning workers in Prince George said they are prepared to stay off the job as long as it takes for the company to meet their demands, which includes wage increases.

A group of rural parents have some ideas for improving School District 57's busing system while also keeping costs down.

Fawn Lake is known for its great spring and fall fishery. The lake can be shallow in spots, and is best fished in cooler temperatures. Early in the season, chironomids are the preferred fly pattern. Try an ice cream cone pattern with an olive body.

Police are treating as suspicious a series of fires that destroyed nearly half the buildings in Lamming Mills, an abandoned townsite roughly 10 kilometres west of McBride.

B.C. Hydro executive Doug Little said today northern B.C. is critically important as a prospective power generator through the proposed $7.

Rio Tinto Alcan is forging ahead with a $2.5-billion rebuild of its Kitimat aluminum smelter in Northern B.C., which is expected to provide benefits throughout the region as far east as Prince George.

A member of a Prince George gang was arrested in a drug raid at a home on the northern edge of the city Thursday. A marijuana grow-operation was also seized.

A new biosolids controversy is flaring up outside Prince George.