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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has accused the opposition parties of forcing an unnecessary election by rejecting Tuesday's budget, calling on the Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois to reconsider their opposition.

A date has been set for a hearing into whether a Prince George stockbroker engaged in manipulative or suspicious trading. At a set-date hearing held Tuesday, a hearing on the actual merits of the case was scheduled for Nov. 14 to Dec.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal from a man who was sentenced to an indefinite jail term for stabbing his girlfriend in the neck and paralyzing her from the neck down.

When Japan experienced its largest earthquake in history March 11 followed by a 10-metre-high tsunami, there was no sleep for a week for a UNBC language instructor who could only wring her hands and hold onto hope that her family and close friends wo

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

A workshop suite is being offered to bring better practices to light on issues like human trafficking.

The main building at CNC's Prince George campus will be closed Sunday because of a construction-related power shutdown. The planned outage will be in effect from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Violence has overrun the Stoney Creek Reserve, and the Saik'uz First Nation community wants to feel safe again. The beating of Brandon Lee Thomas-Flurer, 17, brought community interests together for the first public forum on the matter.

A pioneering physician, a founder of the university, and an Inuit activist will be this year's recipients of honourary degrees from the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC).

Taseko Mines Ltd. is not expecting to see a major impact on its revenue or production in the forseeable future as a result of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan.