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Police discovered 80 large marijuana plants in two Prince George residences deliberately gutted to establish grow operations this week.

To be successful in Asia, you have to take a long-term view, build relationships and use the help of local partners and the B.C. and Canadian government to open doors, says B.C. forestry players active in Asian markets.

Seizure of some explosives from a vehicle police pulled over in October has led to a three-month jail term for a Prince George man.

Northern B.C. NDP MLA Nathan Cullen launched his third annual economic tour this week, scheduled to hit eight communities in communities west of Prince George.

As a young man, former prime minister Paul Martin took a job on a tugboat on the Mackenzie River, moving between Hay River, N.W.T., and the Beaufort Sea.

Federal NDP candidate Lois Boone renewed her call Wednesday for a prompt byelection in Prince George-Peace River after the Harper Conservatives decided to bypass Prince George in federal budget consultations.

British Columbia is already shipping products like lumber, pulp and coal to the growing Asian economy, which includes China Japan and South Korea.

Prince George RCMP was called to an armed robbery at the 7-Eleven convenience store on Queensway during the early hours Wednesday. The clerk there alleged a lone First Nations woman came in and demanded cigarettes and money.

A Report on Pain released Tuesday revealed that for those Canadians living with chronic pain, a long wait for diagnosis doesn't mean treatment is close at hand.

B.C.'s chief forester reduced the annual timber harvest in the Prince George and Quesnel areas on Tuesday from its peak at the height of the pine beetle epidemic. In Prince George, the amount of timber allowed logged each year has been reduced to 12.