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Police are appalled by the nature of the sexual assault that happened in the wee hours of Saturday morning at Freeman Park.

Sir Elton John will make his first ever Prince George appearance July 16 at CN Centre at 8 p.m.

A family from one of Africa's most troubled and poorest nations will soon be reunited in Prince George after more than a decade apart, thanks to a groundswell of local donations.

A 74-year-old Fraser Lake man had to be rescued Saturday at about 12:45 p.m. when he and his dog took a pedal boat out on Fraser Lake in a large area of open water.

Eric's World of Leisure, located at 140 Quebec Street downtown Prince George, burned Friday night. Owner Shirley Moore said her ex-husband was the lone occupant of the building when the fire started at about 9:30 p.m. Friday.

Police have announced the names of the two young victims of a fatal car crash on Thursday. Both were from Prince George, according to Const. Madonna Saunderson of the RCMPS's Prince George Regional Traffic Services.

A woman was attacked by a sexual offender late at night, this weekend. He was a stranger to her, and police are on the hunt for this assailant. Police are calling the attack an aggravated sexual assault.

Another Chinese company's entry into the Alberta oil sands is putting Enbridge's proposed $4.5-billion pipeline, which would pass just north of Prince George, in the spotlight. State-owned Chinese-giant Sinopec has struck a $4.

The hard-hit forest-based community of Mackenzie took another step Friday towards recovery as its shuttered pulp mill, down for two years, was purchased by Asian-giant Sinarmas in a $20-million deal.

It was TV host and do-it-yourself guru Bryan Baeumler's Godfather III moment. The job started as the innocent renovation of a second-storey home office for the face of HGTV's Disaster DIY.