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City struggling to maintain streets, sewers

City council is seeking a strategy to address the growing infrastructure deficit in the city's roads, water and sewer lines.

Crime stats gang up on P.G.

The biggest balloon in last year's crime statistics was due to a surge in police enforcement, not necessarily criminal activity, according to RMCP.

Canada Winter Games levy approved

City council approved a special $1.3 million tax levy to support capital projects for the 2015 Canada Winter Games. The levy will result in an approximately two per cent tax increase, putting the final tax increase for 2011 at 4.2 per cent.

YMCA's new directors

Family YMCA in Prince George has four new directors on board following a recent election. Three-year-term vacancies have been filled by Craig Wood of Wood Wheaton, Jason Blackman of Scotiabank, Kim Hess of WorkSafeBC and Selen Alpay of Canadian Tire.

Residency spaces for new doctors in B.C.

In a bid to ensure every resident in B.C. has a family doctor by the year 2015, the federal health ministry has allocated $6 million to support medical residents training as family doctors in the province. The aim is to bring more doctors to B.C.

The army is coming, the army is coming

The Rocky Mountain Rangers will again stand at attention in Prince George. The city's original and only military company to be based in B.C.'s northern capital has been defunct since the 1960s.

Rescuers get a cold shoulder

A Prince George rescue team's speedy response is getting plowed under by city snow crews.

Crime, a weekend summary

RCMP had a complaint of a break and enter in the 4000 block of Urquhart Crescent at approximately 8:10 p.m., Saturday. The homeowner reported the home was burglarized between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. the same day.

Crack sealing to benefit Interior highways

Several Northern and Interior highways are to benefit from crack sealing which will improve the safety and reliability of the road for motorists by preventing water from getting below the surface and causing damage.

Molecular the championship word at spelling bee

With the correct spelling of "exquisite," then "molecular," Smithers native Justin Bergen emerged the winner of the sixth annual Prince George Citizen Regional Spelling Bee on Saturday.