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The Fraser-Fort George Regional District (FFGRD) stands to gain in the neighbourhood of $2.6 million a year if a campaign tease additional cash out of B.C. Hydro proves successful.

Check out the photo albums at www.pgcitizen.ca under Community in Photo Galleries to see the opening of the UNBC bioenergy plant and the tragic aftermath in Japan.

A number of Fraser Lake residents are expressing anger at Northern Health (NH) for failing to renew a contract of a popular physician in the community. Dr.

More than 400 Burns Lake residents crowded into a meeting Wednesday to express concerns about physician stability, a new hospital without a functional operating room, maternity services, recruitment and more.

Five UNBC students spent five nights this past week under little more than flimsy cardboard.

Briefs from the March 17 Regional District of Fraser-Fort George Board of Directors meeting

The Prince George Chamber of Commerce supports the B.C. Liberal government's announced hike of the minimum wage on Wednesday to $10.25 by May 2012.

The wall of support is building to repair the vandalized walls of Masich Stadium.

An important leadership position for the new BC Cancer Agency Centre for the North has been hired. LaDonna Fehr has been appointed to the position of Director of Clinical Operations - Systemic Therapy for the new cancer centre.

The B.C. lumber industry is standing by to see how wood-frame construction fared in Japan's devastating earthquake, but is optimistic.