Local News

Prince George RCMP are investigating a stabbing that took place on Sunday afternoon at the 7-11 store on Queensway. A 29-year-old man was stabbed in the back alley behind the store about 4:30 p.m. and was taken to University Hospital of Northern B.C.

A time to remember and honour the many aboriginal women who have been murdered or disappeared across Canada will be the Sisters in Spirit Vigil. The vigil will be held outside the Prince George Court House from 4 to 6 p.m. Oct.

Knowing that 2,800 B.C. women will contract breast cancer and 640 will die from it this year provides an urgency to run for a cure. Oct.

About 1,500 pot plants were seized when police executed a search warrant in the 11,000 block of Christopher Road in Prince George. There was a sophisticated grow op found using a hydro bypass.

Due to production issues, the Nuclear Arena - Teen DJ Dance Party - which was to be held at CN Centre Oct. 7 has been canceled. The CN Centre apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. Tickets may be refunded at point of purchase.

The first Great Campus Smoke Out Day Oct. 6 is designed to help the College of New Caledonia become a non-smoking community and give participants a chance to win an Apple iPad.

Thompson Creek Metals Co. Inc. announced Monday its purchase of Terrane Metals, which owns the proposed $917-million Mount Milligan mine, received B.C. Supreme Court approval for the transaction.

The KG Corner convenience store on 15th Avenue just west of Central was the scene of an armed robbery early Saturday morning. Police said they were called to the store and gas station at 4:30 a.m.

The biggest municipal event of the year, the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention, starts today and lasts all week.

The kids are back to school, but they are not back to unaccompanied wandering around Pine Centre Mall.