Local News

The city's unemployment rate stood at 5.7 per cent last month, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers released Friday, a big improvement over 12.5 per cent the year before. It was also an improvement over the 6.

A health care forum set for Tuesday in Burns Lake is expected to attract at least 400 people concerned about the planned exodus of all doctors in the town and the replacement of the tired, old hospital.

CALGARY - The long-delayed Mackenzie natural gas pipeline has received the final green light from the National Energy Board, though the future of the $16.2-billion project is still far from certain.

A family is in mourning after a shotgun blast struck their beloved dog this week.

School board vice chair Trish Bella is in full support of a resolution the B.C.

The Northern Pride Centre Society has launched a letter-writing campaign to convince the University of Northern British Columbia's (UNBC) to reverse a decision to reject a request for funding.

A Prince George contingent of philanthropists is offering an introductory course in overseas aid work.

A regimen of sustained support for teachers who have students with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) has "a lot of promise," a researcher who looked at a dozen Grades 3-7 children with the affliction in School District #57 has found.

Harold Fletcher, 24, has been charged with sexual offences against two young girls on Friday in the vicinity of Pine Centre Mall.

Prince George Citizen reporter Frank Peebles has been nominated for a Ma Murray Community Newspaper Award. The nomination from the B.C.