Local News

The recession and resource downturn cut a deep swath through the Cariboo region's economy last year but some economic gains were made, according to a "regional check-up" released Wednesday by the Chartered Accountants of B.C.

The local B.C. Automobile Association will be holding a draw on July 12 for a child car seat.

Upgrades to the mechanical systems at Carney Hill elementary and Mackenzie secondary schools are in store for this year under a five-year capital plan approved by school board trustees on Tuesday. The Carney Hill project will cost $1.

School board trustees approved construction Tuesday of new playgrounds at Vanway and Giscome elementary schools this summer.

The Citizen's readership is the highest it's been since 2003, according to the Newspaper Audience Databank (NAD) 2009 readership survey. NAD is a non profit organization in Toronto that conducts readership surveys every two years via telephone.

An electrical issue that halted the Citizen press yesterday night has now been fixed. The motor was knocked out by a power surge in the control panel. A decision was made at 11 p.m.

Lloyd Cook, the man charged in connection with the death of a Prince George teen, sat closemouthed and fiddled with a gold pinkie ring as he listened to two witnesses at the start of his trial in Prince George Tuesday.

If you order a coffee at Tim Hortons, you'll help send a kid to camp. It's Camp Day, the one day a year when all coffee proceeds go to the Tim Horton Children's Foundation.

A fire bomb, officially known as a Molotov cocktail, ignited a fire in a Prince George residential complex in the 2200 block of Quince Street, but fire crews were able to extinguish the blaze before any damage was done to the structure.

A fire broke out at the B X Neighbourhood Pub early Tuesday morning. A passerby spotted the small fire shortly after midnight. For more, see The Citizen.