Local News

The B.C. Liberal government said Wednesday it will spend $87 million on 51 new highway projects in northern B.C. this year.It will bring the value of ongoing highway construction in the northern area to $200 million.

A regional district budget decision has been put off until later this month. The board of the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George was presented with a final budget proposal on Thursday afternoon.

An organization dedicated to defending Canadians' constitutional freedoms through "education, communication and litigation" has come to the aid of a Prince George man embroiled in a prolonged and high-profile battle with the federal government's tax

Canadian explorer and environmental filmmaker Mark Terry will present his award-winning documentary The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning on Wed., March 24 at UNBC's Canfor lecture theatre, 7 -9 p.m.

College of New Caledonia is hosting a regional Skills Canada competition on Friday for high school students interested in cabinet making and web design.

A local woman was stabbed in the 2000 block of Pine Street Tuesday at about 10 p.m. Paramedics were called to tend to the 21-year-old female victim, who was transported to the University Hospital of Northern B.C. with non-life threatening injuries.

Air quality a priority in Millar Addition

Prince George RCMP are responding to an early Wednesday call from the Blackwater area of a possible homicide. RCMP Cst. Gary Godwin, media liaison, said police have located a deceased man who appears to have been stabbed.

Trustees have a shallower hole to dig the school district out of as a result of updated budget allocation figures from the Ministry of Education. They're now looking at a shortfall of $5.

Replacing its 55-year-old predecessor across the way, the new Duchess Park Secondary School produced plenty of "wow" from students and teachers alike when its doors were opened for the first time on Tuesday.