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City councillors will consider giving themselves a $7,000 per year raise in next week's council meeting. In March council appointed a four-person committee to review the wages and benefits for city councillors and mayor.

The Oil Sands Developers Group added its voice to the argument that Canada as a whole will benefit from exporting crude from the Alberta oilsands to Asia. Enbridge, which has proposed the $5.

The Pine Centre Mall Zellers is closing down, and nine months and $10 million later, reopening as a Target, according to the chain's spokesperson. In the meantime, Zellers's employees will lose their jobs.

The City of Prince George is asking you to get engaged in your neighbourhood through a pilot project meant to "assist in the early stages of developing a long term neighbourhood engagement strategy," according to a news release.

Vivian Lake is a small jewel just north of Prince George. Home to brook and rainbow trout, the lake is a popular destination for fishing, boating and swimming. The fish are big and the lake is perfect for some tried and true fly patterns and lures.

A local spa company may be in some hot water after taking pot shots on their own illegally dumped inventory.

Prince George is the latest bust site by a special RCMP task force hitting drug operations across the Cariboo. A large amount of marijuana was found, but the suspect is still at large. At 5 p.m.

The B.C. Liberal government is promising a two per cent cut to the harmonized sales tax by 2014, an effort to sway the public in favour of the tax in a referendum vote next month.

A special City of Prince George committee of council is convening over the issue of unleashed dogs, and it's asking local citizens to provide feedback.

The legal system is continuing to figure out what to do with an elderly man who was twice arrested for allegedly attempting two rob banks at the Spruceland Mall last summer.