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The province is using $1.2 million from a job-creation fund to reduce the fire risk and remove beetle-killed trees in several communities in the Cariboo region.

Canfor Corp., a major northern B.C. lumber producer, has posted a fourth-quarter loss of $17 million and full-year 2009 losses of $70.5 million after another tough year. Lumber prices had been depressed all year as a result of a collapse in U.S.

This year's 59th annual Prince George and District Music Festival will be highlighted by the return of a prominent musician who received his basic education here both in academics and music.

The University of Northern British Columbia might be the best place to celebrate the start of the Olympic Winter Games today. Organized by the Northern Undergraduate Student Society, a winter carnival will kick off at 3 p.m.

THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - Drug-using aboriginal women are at particular risk of contracting hepatitis C if at least one of their parents was forced to attend a residential school, suggests a new study.

A Prince George drug dealer was found guilty of kidnapping, confining and assaulting a customer for selling and smoking most of the cocaine he had been given to hold in trust after a defence that hinged largely on mistaken identity failed to sway a B

More than 200 people packed the gymnasium at Hixon elementary school on Tuesday night to register their opposition to the school district's plan to close the school as part of an effort to deal with a $7-million shortfall in next year's budget.

ICBC won't say if they are or are not covering the damage costs of the car that intervened in the hit-and-run of Stanley Heavysides, 48.

The Heritage Commission of the City of Prince George is pleased to announce the Heritage Places Award for 2010. This year's recipient is Knox United Church which was built in 1922.

The victim of a stabbing has come forward to publicly express his appreciation to the Prince George nurse whose quick actions saved his life a bit more than a year-and-a-half ago.