Local News

Morfee Mountain music by 20 groups and bands will reverberate throughout Mackenzie during its annual festival. Morfee Mountain Music Festival is a three-day event July 16 to 18 at the rodeo grounds where tickets will be available at the gate.

A Prince George man was sentenced to 150 days in jail for breaking into a neighbour's apartment and sexually assaulting her while she was asleep.

Renovations are expected to start soon on Terasen's new customer care centre in Prince George which will employ 100 people when it is opens in Jan. 2012.

Prince George's own Jamie Scott is making her way to Toronto to compete for a crown at the Miss Teen Canada World 2010 pageant.

A house well known to police as a crack shack and a squatters refuge went up in smoke early Thursday.

On Monday, a paperback was returned to the Prince George Public Library, exactly 33 years and four months after it was first due.

The Prince George RCMP Drug unit seized $17,000 worth of drugs from a local residence Wednesday. The unit executed a warrant under the Controlled Drug and Substances Act at a residence in the 3000 block of Westwood Drive. For more, see the Citizen.

A University of Northern British Columbia professor will be acknowledged this fall for his research on the mountain pine beetle. Dezene Huber will be awarded the C.

Barkerville's 2010 season will be sponsored by two of the biggest names in the north-central interior business community.

B.C.'s Lieutenant Governor Steven Point, who's also a member of the Sto:lo nation will address those gathered for the annual Rose Prince Pilgrimage in Lejac tomorrow at 7 p.m.