Local News

A widely-reported sandbag shortage across the country and the continent is not currently putting Prince George and regional residents in jeopardy, according to Emergency Management B.C. However that situation may change.

School District 57 is set to receive a slight increase in its operating grant from the provincial despite a decrease in enrollment, according an estimate released Wednesday by the Ministry of Education.

The Tahltan Nation signed off on benefits agreements with B.C. Hydro and the province Tuesday that supports the $404-million Northwest power line. The power line along the Highway 37 corridor in northwest B.C.

Stuart Lake is a large lake found in British Columbia's central interior. It measures over 65 km in length and more than 10 km across in some places, offering some of British Columbia's best freshwater fishing.

Ornamental street lights will soon be illuminating George Street from Third Avenue to Sixth Avenue downtown. City crews began installation of the lights on the 300 block of George Street on Tuesday.

School District 57 will see nearly $100,000 added to its expenses due to provincial government downloading. School board trustee Lyn Hall said the added expense will be felt when the 2011-12 budget is set.

Spurred on by personal connections at her workplace, Deanna Zutz of Windsor Plywood is helping to organize a relief effort for people displaced by the wildfire that swept Slave Lake, Alta.

The Keg Steakhouse and Bar restaurant chain is serving up $1 million in grants, and four local projects are competing for a prime cut of the cash.

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed a complaint against the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) by a former professor who alleged he was unjustly dismissed because of a mental disability.

With visions of John Backhouse being chased across the moors and highlands by Scottish hoteliers demanding "givus yer munae, ya squeefy Canadian scaffbag," many of the former mayor's friends had a puzzling email on their Tuesday morning computer scre