Local News

Pick through the many promises and proposals listed in the "campaign commitments" section of B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Mike de Jong's website, and the careful reader will notice one of particular note for Northern B.C.

On Feb. 23 at approximately 9:30 p.m., Prince George RCMP general duty members responded to a call from CN Rail of a collision between a train and a vehicle on Tallus Road near Highway 97, north of Prince George.

The Prince George Pineview Second Blackpine Scout Group will hold their 30-year reunion and open house on April 30.

A 2011 Polaris RMK 800 was stolen from the back of a truck at the Quesnel Recreation Centre between 9 and 10:45 p.m. Wednesday. The sled is mostly grey with mixed black and white.

Crime has flared up at a couple of local business sites this past week. On Monday, a cloud of pepper spray wafted across a corner of the Pine Centre Mall's parking lot when a dispute inside escalated outdoors.

George Abbott, a one-time berry farmer and political science college instructor, has played up his rural roots from day one of his Liberal leadership bid.

A pre-trial conference is scheduled for June 29 for Cody Alan Legebokoff, accused of murdering Fraser Lake teen Loren Donn Leslie. Leslie's body was found Nov. 27 near Vanderhoof in the area of an unused old logging road near Highway 27.

Tallus Road was the scene Wednesday of a collision between a CN Rail train and a Volkswagen Jetta.

The second in command of Prince George RCMP detachment has retired. Insp. Chris Bomford was in the police detachment cleaning up his office and saying some goodbyes on Tuesday, but his last official day on the job was last Friday.

Spruceland elementary is well on the way to becoming a traditional school.