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B.C.-based forest company West Fraser has announced capital spending of $125 million in the next 18 months to expand and upgrade its solid wood plants in the B.C. Interior, Alberta and U.S. South. West Fraser has extensive operations in northern B.C.

The search continues for 83-year-old Ruth Hjorth, who was last seen at her residence north of Trout Lake, near Nazko Sept. 16 and discovered missing by a concerned family member Sept. 18.

The remaining shares of the Pine Centre Mall has just been purchased by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The pension plan had owned 80 per cent of the mall and when the transaction is complete it will be 100 per cent owned by the fund.

A local man has a chance to be on ABC's Wipeout and to help him get there Wipeout Wannabe Jeff Bailey is asking for Prince George residents to cast their vote on Facebook.

A loaded gun and a dummy grenade were part of what police found in another takedown associated to the Game Tight Soldiers.

Prince George has just been awarded the 2015 Canada Winter Games. The choice was between Kamloops, Kelowna and Prince George.

Ryan Walter will be the keynote speaker at the Expo 50 Plus, a free travel and lifestyle show sponsored by the Prince George Citizen and the Commonwealth Mortgage Corporation and Commonwealth Benefits Corporation to be held at the Civic Centre on Sun

The call is out for nominations for The BC Cancer Agency's 2010 Community Care Award. Residents are asked to nominate an exceptional cancer caregiver who has gone above and beyond the call of duty in providing support to cancer patients.

Prince George women will take to the streets Sept. 24 to protest violence against women. Take Back the Night is an annual event where women reclaiming their right to be able to walk alone at night, without the need of a male companion.

Being old and being poor is a lousy combination, said the president of Commonwealth Mortgage Corporation and Commonwealth Benefits Corporation.