Local News

Swollen Members is one of Canada's leading hip-hop music acts, and they also have a history of involvement with organized crime. Police and The Citizen are now wondering if a Prince George line has now been written in that saga.

Prince George was named host of the 2015 Canada Winter Games by the Canada Games Council at a news conference held this morning at the Vancouver Convention Centre and through a news feed set up at the Atrium at the CN Centre in Prince George.

Yes, Prince George, we really are winter.

Prince George RCMP are hoping to hear from a witness who assisted in locating key evidence when an arrest was made on Sept. 2, at 5 p.m. in Pine Centre Mall parking lot.

The annual parade of motorcycles throughout the west sector of Prince George takes place Sept. 26, beginning at noon at CN Centre.

Royal Canadian Legion invites residents to its Black Jack comedy tour featuring two known Canadian comedians. Mike MacDonald, labelled the King of Canadian Comedy, will join Matt Billon at 8 p.m. Sept. 30 at the Legion Hall, 1335 Seventh Ave.

A Fort St. John high school teacher is in the running to be the Conservative's candidate in Prince George-Peace River in the next federal election.

The road is closed on 5th Avenue between Ospika Boulevard and Brigade Drive due to the breakage of a water main. City crews are on-site to repair the damage but it isn't expected to be complete before the after work commute.

Police have clarified the 17-year-old driver involved in a collision about 9 p.m. Sept. 10 on Second Avenue and Moffat had not been drinking. RCMP CST.

Every year hundreds of Prince George residents anticipate the annual borscht, summer sausage bunwich, and home made pie they'll have for lunch during the annual Mennonite Fall Fair at the Civic Centre.