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As the B.C. Day long weekend fast approaches, the 7th annual ArtsWells Festival of All Things Art is getting ready to ride surging heat waves towards the historic communities of Barkerville and Wells. For more, see the Citizen.

The Citizen has exclusively learned that the Meat Loaf concert at the CN Centre on Wednesday, Aug. 4 will be postponed due to the rocker's illness. Stay tuned to the Citizen for more details.

The ground shook as an excavator's teeth bit into the asphalt, peeling the pavement back to show the dirt underneath. That dirt in a back lot of University Hospital of Northern B.C.

Prince George community and business leaders delivered a priority list of action items, including on a promised Wood Innovation and Design Centre downtown, to B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell at a closed-door session Thursday.

Nominations are now open for Women in Natural Resources, presented by the Minerva Foundation for BC Women.

As plane climbed higher and I saw my altimeter read 3,000 feet, it hit me. I was expected to crawl out onto the wing of the plane and simply 'let go.

Enbridge, the company that has proposed a $5.5-billion pipeline project in northern B.C., said Wednesday it was doubling the number of its workers at a major oil pipeline spill in Michigan.

Another report has surfaced, predicting a drop in the mid-term timber supply from the mountain pine beetle epidemic will bring with it a reduction in forestry jobs in B.C.'s Interior.

The Prince George Service Canada Centre for Youth has filled 207 summer job vacancies so far this summer, according to Kyle Flanagan, the centre's youth service officer.

Carolyn Mark will appear at Cafe Voltaire on Friday at 8 p.m. Let's Just Stay Here, a record she made with NQ Arbuckye, was nominated for a Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year in 2009.