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Students need a break on the interest they're paying on their loans, says University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) president George Iwama. Reiterating statements he and the presidents of B.C.

The City of Prince George 2010 Annual Report is now available in draft form for public viewing, and the public can offer suggestions or comments on what is inside.

Charges have been stayed against a woman who had allegedly been involved in the sexual assault at the Renegades clubhouse slightly more than two months ago.

A woman was left slightly injured Friday afternoon after a man broke into her home on Tamarack Street. Prince George RCMP received a 911 call Friday at approximately 2:10 p.m. from the lone occupant of the 1800 block residence.

A political commentator and researcher questioned the need for a Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) given the profits corporations are already making in British Columbia when he spoke at a B.C. Federation of Labour convention in Prince George on Saturday.

For $5 a swing, fans of the Vancouver Canucks can take a bash at the Boston Bruins. For $50 or more, that swing of the sledgehammer can be used to break some glass on a car painted Bruin black and yellow.

It still early days but Dr. David Snadden is pleased so far with the rate at which the Northern Medical Program (NMP) is attracting new physicians to northern B.C.

Postal workers are not striking in Prince George - yet. Union representatives are not making promises either way on whether P.G.

Prince George is getting its own InspireHealth (IH) centre. B.C.'s northern capital - along with Victoria, Kelowna, Abbotsford and a virtual centre for rural communities - was announced for IH expansion on Friday.

UNBC economist Paul Bowles proposed the idea Friday the province should create a "brighter futures" board, that would help examine issues in the province's economy and recommend solutions. Unlike the existing B.C.