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Education Minister George Abbott announced this morning, as expected, he has quit cabinet to run for the B.C. Liberal leadership.

We've heard it a thousand times, slow down - the roads are icy. On Thursday, Prince George ICBC and RCMP made their point with a show-and-tell style test about how driving speed affects the time it takes to stop on icy roads.

Prince George resident Lyle Young is the latest winner in the Live Free mortgage contest presented by the Prince George Citizen and the Integris Credit Union.

UNBC President George Iwama used a torch to fire up the wood chips that are the fuel for the university's new bioenergy system.

Somewhere under sheets of frozen water are clues to the truth of two fires. It redefines the term "cold case" when a crime scene starts with fire that has to be doused before investigators even arrive.

The search is on for clues that gang warfare in Prince George has claimed another innocent victim. An elder woman in a wheelchair was inside the burning house at 4337 Foster Road. She was grievously injured and a dog killed by the blaze.

There has always been, according to anecdote and statistical probability, more or less the same proportion of Prince George people of non-heterosexual orientation.

The B.C. government has released its proposed requirements for projects to gain carbon offsets that could provide new revenue in forestry and help reduce emissions.

Saying she's tired of doing the government's "dirty work," school board trustee Lois Boone has announced she won't seek re-election when voters head to the polls next November.

Two days, two fires, but one man at the centre. Joey Arrance, a known member of the Game Tight Soldiers gang, is the tenant of the house at 4337 Foster Road that was apparently torched at about 1 a.m.