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Representatives of B.C. First Nations reiterated their frustration and surprise Tuesday over a historic agreement reached between environmental groups and forest companies earlier this year to help protect the country's vast boreal forest.

One of the ways a lot of city issues are identified, discussed and policies designed for is through the municipal committee process.

Exceptionally heavy rain and high snow pack are to blame for a $9.3-million cost overrun and year-long delay in the completion of the Red Rock weigh scale, according to transportation ministry officials.

Prince George RCMP are alarmed by the soaring numbers of theft from vehicles during past two months. Police have received more than 150 reports of theft from vehicles in the Prince George area during September and October.

Officials at the Railway and Forestry Museum in Prince George invite residents to join in the celebratation of the Accessibility Project on Monday at 10 a.m.

Undercover police staged a shakedown of a "rogue girlfriend" in a Winnipeg motel room in the process of gaining the confidence of Denis Florian Ratte, the jury into the Prince George man's murder trial was told Tuesday.

The sudden end to a political corruption trial of three former B.C. government employees involving the $1-billion sale of B.C. Rail to CN comes as no surprise to one of the key Prince George organizers that fought the sale in 2003.

The efforts of a College of New Caldonia student who has helped convince others from his home country of Saudi Arabia to enroll at the school are about to be acknowledged.

Three Caucasian males robbed an elderly man near 13th Street and 111th Avenue in Dawson Creek Sunday at about 11:45 p.m. and RCMP are asking for the public's assistance to locate the suspects.

Two Prince George accountants are being recognized for extraordinary service to their profession by the Certified Management Accountants Society of B.C.