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The annual Francophone Winter Festival starts Saturday and continues through to Feb 6. To help celebrate, Edith Butler, also known as Mother Acadia, a folk singer, will make an appearance at Un Petit Cafe, Third and George Street, at noon Saturday.

The College of New Caledonia is going to have significant financial challenges to resolve, board members heard Friday as more than $1 million in provincial funding cuts are expected for the next year.

BC Cancer Agency, Northern Health and other health authorities have fast-tracked the Screening Mammography Program to save more lives of women with breast problems. B.C.

Barbara Kennedy won’t let her cancer battle stop her from carrying the Olympic torch

A homeowner confronted a lone male taking items from his house in the 1500 block of Ash Street at about 6:36 Wednesday night. The male then fled the location and was arrested by police a short distance away.

A Queensway resident says logging trucks ruined her daytime TV. Gail Telland said the trucks keep snagging the lines outside her home. In the 51 years she's lived on the street, it's happened "five or six times"; twice in the last few weeks.

Local economic development people have issued a wish list of what they would like to see the federal and provincial governments take on as priorities when MPs and MLAs return to Ottawa and Victoria in early March.

Northern Health has teamed up with Ron and Chase Larson of Larson Motorsports Team to raise awareness about all the benefits of tobacco-free sports as well as to influence youth behaviour through positive role models during the "Motorsports Yes, Toba

Donations of money continue to flow into the Canadian Red Cross for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. Becky Row, regional operations manager for northern B.C. and the Yukon, said Thursday that donated funds from northerners total $112,021.

A new trial has been ordered for the man found guilty of using a machete to commit a murder in the parking lot of a Prince George fast food restaurant slightly more than five years ago. In a ruling issued Monday, the B.C.