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Canada's auditor general office, with its nearly $100-million budget and 635 staff, helps build a better country, a Prince George Chamber of Commerce breakfast was told Monday.

It's bee season in Prince George and Vanier Hall will be fairly buzzing Feb. 26 when 39 students arrive from throughout the North to face off in the fifth annual Prince George Citizen Regional Spelling Bee.

Athletes braved strong winds to compete in the 2011 Prince George Iceman, Sunday. Patrick Turner topped the solo men's competition with a time of one hour, 48 minutes and 21 seconds.

A Prince George mother is looking for her baby's little red sleigh, which was stolen from her home on Aitken Crescent in the early hours Tuesday.

Four anonymous artists, four early morning hours, 96 litres of red food colouring sprayed on 19 snow-pile sites around Prince George. This was done to activate curiosity, thought and conversation on this Red Letter Day attributed to St. Valentine.

There was a coal train derailed just outside of Fort Fraser at about 5:30 Saturday night. There were 36 cars that went off the track and CN Rail officials say there is no environmental damage.

No First Nations have signed onto Enbridge Inc.'s ownership offer on its proposed $5.5-billion Northern Gateway oil pipeline, but the company is working to get the offer out to 40 eligible First Nations within weeks.

Criticizing the B.C. Liberal government for bringing in sweeping forestry reforms, NDP leadership candidate Harry Lali said Friday he would roll back some of those changes.

February 10 Ian Vernon Cooper was sentenced to one year probation with a suspended sentence for three counts of theft $5,000 or under, two committed in Prince George and one in Terrace, and to one day in jail for possession of a controlled substance,

Prince George RCMP are advising that counterfeit $50 and $20 bills have popped up at fast food restaurants and grocery stores as recently as Friday.