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You want to try flying? The Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron is offering residents a chance to try out their flight simulators at Pine Centre Mall this weekend, and help the cadets goal of flying across the country.

Enbridge pipeline leaks oil An Enbridge pipeline has a leak of 1,500 litres of crude oil in Manitoba, near the community of Virden. Clean-up is underway by the company. Calgary-based Enbridge is proposing to build a $4.

On April 9 the Quesnel RCMP Drug Section seized growing equipment and marijuana plants valued at more than $300,000 at a residence in the 2000 block of Vernon Road.

"Cancer: Is a cure in sight? That's the name of a free presentation by Dr. Geoff Payne, UNBC assistant dean of the Northern Medical Program. Everybody's welcome to the Cafe Scientifique lecture at 7:30 p.m.

Heather Park's hockey academy is adapting to the new kind school they will be next year.

For the past 100 years the Girl Guides of Canada have been a trailblazing organization advocating for girls and women. It started in 1909 when girls in England demanded to take part in a Boy Scouts rally organized by Lord Baden-Powell.

The controversy-marred Prince George Metis Housing Society is selling off a pair of its houses in College Heights with a price tag of nearly $390,000, The Citizen has learned. B.C.

Monday will mark exactly 30 years to the day since Terry Fox set off to walk across Canada to raise money for cancer research. Today he is recognized world wide and more than $500 million has been raised in his name.

A radical revamp of environmental reviews is needed or mines and other projects will face costly delays, British Columbia First Nation leaders warned Thursday.

The softwood lumber tax on exports to the United States will be reduced by one third to 10 per cent on May 1 because lumber prices have increased, the first decrease since the tax was imposed in 2006. "This is reason to celebrate," said B.C.