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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.

Thefts of two large televisions from a Prince George hotel has led to a three month sentence for a man suspected of committing several other similar crimes.

Eric Allen said he is not done opposing the construction of a new RCMP detachment. Only two per cent of the public opposed the project through an alternate approval process (AAP), which Allen spearheaded.

During the B.C. Police Winter CounterAttack Campaign numbers of drunk drivers nabbed went up and fatalities went down, making the province-wide program a success, said Cpl. Jamie Chung of "E" Division Traffic Services.