Local News

The large, intense fires that have ravaged the Pelican Lake area south of Prince George have created a tree-falling danger, the B.C. Forest Service warned Monday. The warning includes the Pantage Lake and Titetown areas, also south of Prince George.

A Williams Lake man has died after falling into the Chilcotin River during a fishing expedition near Farewell Canyon at about 8 Saturday night.

For the second year in a row College of New Caledonia in Prince George is seeing a sharp increase of students signing up for the fall semester.

The cause of a balcony fire on Gillette Street is still under investigation. Officials are primarily thankful that no one was injured.

In the short history of Prince George organized crime, the only way to displace a gang is with another gang. Meet our gang. The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit-North. They still don't have a snappy nickname so they go by their initials.

There's a new executive director at the Prince George Conservatory of Music.

A 20-year-old P.G. man who had been missing since Wednesday at 4 p.m. has been located.

The August 2010 natural gas and petroleum sale resulted in over $98 million in bonus bids, bringing the calendar year total to over $760 million.

There's a new 23-seater bus in town for the next two weeks to see if the bus will be a valuable addition to the B.C. Transit system. It's been tested elsewhere and now the Vicinity will be used here to see how it performs in our climate and terrain.

Smoke is expected to increase with forecast warmer weather during the weekend on fires west of Prince George, including the 40,000-hectare Binta Lake fire.