Local News

The Canadian Diabetes Association and the Prince George Sikh Youth Society have joined forces to hold a free diabetes educational event in Punjabi and English at the Prince George Civic Centre. The event on Saturday from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

New Premier, Christy Clark, has increased the funding to more than 2,000 non-profit community groups by $15 million. It fulfills a leadership campaign promise Clark made to boost the funding.

A local elder and outdoor enthusiast is still missing, six months after his vehicle was found in the backcountry near the city. Dietmar Josef Faeth, 73, was scheduled to fly out of Prince George in October for a warmer winter climate.

A half dozen performers are on tap when a "Band Aid" event is held Saturday night at Riverstone Bar and Grill to raise money to help a community in Liberia.

A 29 year old man is in custody following a standoff in McLeod Lake yesterday. The man, originally from Prince George, surrendered to police shortly after 1 p.m.

British Columbia is continuing its efforts to position lumber as an accepted construction material in China during another trade mission beginning Sunday led by Jobs, Tourism and Innovation Minister Pat Bell.

Facing deportation to South Africa, an alleged Prince George gangster won something of a break in provincial court this week but it likely will not be enough to keep him in the country.

The College of New Caledonia (CNC) board of governors voted not to increase tuition by two per cent for next year, during its regularly scheduled meeting in Quesnel on Friday.

A Cariboo grow-op recently busted by RCMP turned up a lot of marijuana, some environmental contamination, and a collection of dogs. The dogs were all in various stages of distress and some had to be euthanized due to medical conditions.

A Prince George man who was acquitted of drunk driving would probably not have been so lucky if the federal government had taken Mothers Against Drunk Driving's (MADD) advice.