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Prince George Native Friendship Centre executive director Barb Ward-Burkitt has been named to the Order of British Columbia, the provincial government's honours and awards secretariat said Friday.

The largest fire near Prince George: Although it's outside the Prince George Fire Centre region in the Cariboo Fire Centre, the Pelican Lake fire complex is just 75 kilometres southwest of Prince George as the crow flies.

B.C. Environment, in collaboration with Northern Health, issued a wildfire smoke advisory for Prince George on Friday. There had already been a normal air quality air advisory in place on Thursday.

Canada Revenue Agency has launched an appeal of last month's decision that allowed taxpayer Irvin Leroux to continue his lawsuit against the CRA, says the organization that's covering his legal costs.

Bob Zimmer,41, announced that he will seek the federal conservative nomination for the Prince George-Peace River electoral district. "I hope to continue where Jay left off and keep the reform ideal alive in Ottawa.

The giant Martin Mars water-bomber has been relocated to Fraser Lake west of Prince George to provide help in the hot fire zone south of Prince George.

B.C. Environment issued an air quality advisory Thursday because of high levels of fine particulate air pollution in the Prince George airshed, a result of forest fires, and industry and transportation emissions.

Serengeti Resources and the Takla Lake First Nation have signed a exploration access agreement for the company's Kwanika gold and copper project northwest of Prince George.

Peggy Tobin, who is biking from Vancouver to Halifax with the Sears National Cancer Ride from Sept. 9 to 23, will be at Sears on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

A chance to catch a glimpse of the northern lights from the outskirts of Prince George should last until Sunday night, says Prince George Astronomical Society president Maurice Sluka, thanks to a second "coronal mass ejection" from the sun in the las