Local News

A motorcycling enthusiast who is using his passion to raise money to combat Crohn's disease and colitis will be passing through Prince George during a trip to and from Hyder, Alaska.

Friends of Prince George Public Library are holding a book sale Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the downtown Bob Harkins branch. Books are priced "buy donation". Donations of books, CDs, sheet music, tapes and records will be gratefully accepted.

Prince George businessman Dan McLaren was named to the B.C. Chamber of Commerce board of directors during its annual general meeting and conference last week.

Prince George journalist, writer and radio host Ben Meisner was among three people appointed to the B.C. Law Society board of governors on Tuesday.

Its Prince George location included, Coast Hotels and Resorts has a new voluntary carbon offset program for guests in place.

Police in Fort St. John are investigating a knife attack that happened Wednesday morning at about 8:30. Public information directed Mounties to 104th Avenue where a man appeared to be severely injured.

Police are now releasing the names of the two people killed in the head-on highway collision near Vanderhoof on Sunday.

Prince George students graduating from high school will receive a special pass good for two days of unlimited travel on the city's transit system this month.

The application deadline has been extended until Thursday, June 10 for the Raise-a-Reader Writer's Camp, hosted by UNBC.

Prince George school board trustees gave two readings Tuesday to a $126.5-million budget that will see 79 fewer positions on the school district's payroll for 2010-11 in an effort to balance the budget in the face of declining enrollment.