Local News

A team of high-pressure communicators has been given a high-level honour.

City council member Brian Skakun is attempting to appeal his conviction for violating provincial privacy legislation by leaking confidential documents to a local media outlet.

Hockey fans who converged on CN Centre to take in the Stanley Cup finals and enjoyed a beer or two while cheering on their team suddenly found themselves without suds on Monday when sales were stopped in response to an edict from the liquor control a

All remains quiet on the fire front in Prince George, but the province's wildfire branch has issued a strong-wind warning for the Tisigar Lake fire in Northern B.C.

A forecast high-wind warning for the Tisigar fire in northern B.C., the largest in the province, didn't materialize Tuesday evening.

A trial has begun for a Prince George man accused of manslaughter. Robert Oliver Nelson faces the charge in relation to the death of Darren Lee Paterson who died in on July 14, 2009 from injuries allegedly suffered in a severe beating.

Provincial privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham is "perplexed" by Crown counsel's decision to take City councillor Brian Skakun to court when he leaked confidential documents to the media rather than turn to her office to deal with the issue.

"They played like they were in Boston." So said a dejected Vancouver Canucks fan as she made her way to the parking lot at CN Centre, one of about 850 who gathered for what they thought was going to be Stanley Cup celebration for the ages.

The Spice Cabinet, MLAs Shirley Bond and Pat Bell's Great Northern Chili Cook Off team, took the title of best chili with a convincing 64 votes at the Prince George Community Arts Council's annual Spring Arts Bazaar held Saturday.

The Law Society of B.C. has banned a former Prince George lawyer from practicing in the province for five years for professional misconduct.