Opinion

Last weekend, two things officially marked the end of the winter season: the Prince George Spruce Kings held their spring prospects camp, and the last sliver of snow begrudgingly melted out of my front yard.

Do you know just how much water you are using? It's actually surprising that it's not already all gone but it may not be long at these rates. Let's try to protect what we have. Let's all do our part.

"Always be closing," was the advice ruthless realtor Alec Baldwin made famous in the sales meeting scene of the movie Glengarry Glen Ross.

Approximately 11,000 years ago, the glaciers retreated and the world warmed again for a short time. The steppes of southwestern Asia were exposed revealing vast flat grasslands inhabited by wheat and other grains.

In what would later become a quest for a family farm partnership in their new homeland near Lethbridge Alberta, my great grandfather's family was among a group of nine families who drove 385 head of cattle, 185 horses, and 17 wagons from Utah to sout

The hunt is on for wolves, barred and horned owls, as well as many other species. These animals are being killed in accordance with the Species at Risk Act of Canada.

It looks like the B.C. government is one of the few outfits in the province that has managed to lose money -- on paper -- in the sizzling Lower Mainland real-estate market.

The park isn't the problem, it's the people. That's the one thing both the supporters and the opponents of building a small park behind the new Wood Innovation and Design Centre building on George Street agree on.

I am lucky enough to be part of a family here in Prince George that is, technically, not my own but still I am proud to claim.

I rolled-out of bed this morning at 8 a.m. and went directly to the hospital out-patients lab for my quarterly Diabetes Blood Test (A1c).