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The Downtown Business Improvement Association will have to deal with questions about financial transparency and the fallout from mass resignations when its twelve new board members meet for the first time next week.

Highway 16 east of Slim Creek remained at single lane alternating traffic with pilot cars on Friday morning following Tuesday night's crash and fire of a propane truck.

A Prince George man was sentenced to 23 months in jail for sexually assaulting and choking a woman in a alleyway following a night at a downtown bar. Kelsey Alexander Allard, 28, was handed the sentence Friday by B.C.

Alleged Prince George gangster Francois (Frankie) Meerholz was released from detention by an Immigration Refugee Board (IRB) adjudicator on Thursday but his days in Canada appear to remain numbered.

Newly-appointed Advanced Education Minister Naomi Yamamoto visited the College of New Caledonia (CNC) and the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) on Tuesday to get a first-hand look at post-secondary education in the city.

The Chinese province of Hebei now has a third wood-truss plant, and is planning to build a wood-frame research centre, more examples of the country's growing interest in wood.

The City of Prince George website received a facelift this week. The new site, www.princegeorge.

The founder of the free software movement will speak at the University of Northern British Columbia on Monday evening.

A Prince George couple was shocked to learn the mugger who attacked them last week got turned loose by Mounties a few minutes after the robbery. And it turns out RCMP supervisors were shocked too.

Alleged Prince George gangster Joey Arrance has secured a lawyer, but when his cases - and that of Kirsten Fredin - will go to trial remain up in the air.