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Transportation minister Shirley Bond is pointing to $53 million worth of further work on the Cariboo Connector along Highway 97 as a highlight among the projects to be pursued this year.

A benefit concert to raise funds for Haiti and Kenya will be held on Saturday at First Baptist Church on Fifth Avenue at Gillette. Called Hope for Haiti and Care for Kenya, it will feature music from On the House Band and The Freedom Singers.

A handful of projects proposed for the Prince George area have been added to the provincial government's latest major projects inventory.

Burns Lake teacher Jim Iker is the new first vice-president of the B.C. Teachers' Federation. Ikert was elected to the post for a one-year term Tuesday during the BCTF convention.

B.C. residents are being encouraged to 'speak up' as part of an awareness campaign to highlight the value of talking to their pharmacist during Pharmacist Awareness Week, March 7-13. "Of all health care professionals in B.C.

One of the several people arrested in a series of police raids on marijuana grow operations in late January will go behind bars.

The city is continuing legal efforts to force the previous owner of the Columbus Hotel to pay slightly more than $175,000 for the cost of demolishing and cleaning up the Third Avenue downtown site. A notice of appeal has been filed against a B.C.

The Forest Practices Board, B.C.'s foremost forestry watchdog, has named longtime Prince George forester Al Gorley as chair. The post was held for the past six years by Bruce Fraser. Gorley's appointment takes effect on May 1.

From turning off lights to decreasing travel, Northern Health is on a serious mission to reduce its carbon footprint in the North.