Local News

A half dozen schools -- five of them rural -- will be closed for the coming school year following a marathon school board meeting Tuesday night.

A 1998 black F150 pick up truck struck a parked 1995 Ford Mustang in the 900 block of Irwin Street just before 2 a.m. Wednesday.

There is an April child car seat inspection clinic April 15 at the main fire hall at 1111 Seventh Avenue. All children must now use a child seat or a booster seat that is appropriate for their weight and age until their ninth birthday.

The deal is almost done to build the province's Wood Innovation Resource Centre on the site of the Prince George Hotel.

Fraser-Fort George Regional District directors approved a $29-million operating budget for 2010 following plenty of wrangling Wednesday over how to pay for the solid waste service. Property tax will cover $16.1 million of the total budget, $1.

School District 57 board chose to spare five schools from closure during a meeting held Tuesday night. Schools to be left open are Nukko Lake, Central Fort George, Giscome Elementary, Hixon and Peden Hill.

City officials swear there are no plans for the land they just bought - the Prince George Hotel and adjacent parking lot - but mists of evidence are accumulating that there is a definite plan underneath the transaction and always has been.

The thud of the petition demanding the repaving of Continental Way was still echoing off of city council's desk when the municipality agreed to do it.

The Downtown Business Improvement Association has nine new names on its board of directors following the organization's annual general meeting on Tuesday night.

Cpl. Darren Fitzpatrick, 21, was laid to rest in Prince George cemetery Tuesday. He died in an Edmonton hospital after being injured by an improvised explosive device on March 6 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan.