Highway 16 West closed at Hartman Road
A motor vehicle incident has forced closure of Highway 16 West at Hartman Road, Prince George RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass said,The public is urged to avoid the area.
View ArticleCall for hamper help
There's a big demand from the younger seniors living alone to get a Christmas hamper that the P.G. Council of Seniors offers annually to those in need.This year, there's been 175 applications made for...
View ArticleRed Nose offers a safe ride home
Operation Red Nose volunteer teams gave 136 rides to P.G. partyers Saturday night, beating out the total number of 131 rides given in its opening 2013 weekend.On Saturday night ,16 volunteer teams...
View ArticleMunicipal unions set to strike
City workers could walk off the job as soon as 1:09 p.m. on Thursday after providing 72-hour strike notice to the city on Monday.Members of Canadian Union of Public Employees locals 399 and 1048...
View ArticleHeavy snowfall warning issued
Environment Canada has issued a warning for heavy snowfall.Between 15 and 25 cm is expected to fall starting tonight and continuing through to Wednesday evening."An intense Pacific frontal system...
View ArticleNew prosperity rhetoric heats up
The current and former Tsilhqot'in National Government tribal chiefs traded barbs Tuesday as the B.C. business community made a push for the proposed New Prosperity copper and gold mine.Current chief...
View ArticleRaid results in gun, drug charges
Three people - including a man previously convicted of confining and assaulting a woman - face charges after the Prince George RCMP's crime reduction team executed a search warrant on an 1100-block...
View ArticleCracked characters in fractured fairy tale
A mishmash of famous fairy tale characters are thrown together for twists of fate and turns of phrase during Sleeping Beauty and the Beast today through Saturday at Kelly Road school.The Grade 11 and...
View ArticleFundraiser a Buddy Holly hit
It all came together last night as the cast and crew from Theatre North West and local entertainers assembled to present Home for the Holidays, a cabaret show, presented at Judy Russell's Enchainement...
View ArticleUNBC duo selected for prestigious group
A University of Northern British Columbia professor and an associate professor were elected to the Royal Canadian Geographical Society College of Fellows.The event was recently held in Ottawa and was...
View ArticleEnbridge VP details pipeline safety tools
When diluted bitumen escaped from an Enbridge-owned pipeline in Michigan in 2010, the company quickly realized the tools it had been using to monitor the integrity of its network weren't up to the...
View ArticleStarts on 11 new homes in November
Construction began on 11 new single-family homes in the Prince George area last month, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation numbers released Friday.That compares to 18 starts during the...
View ArticleJob action delayed to weekend
It will be business as usual for city operations tomorrow, but that's not likely to last.Though unionized staff were prepared to walk out Thursday, the strike notice issued Dec. 9 was struck down by...
View ArticlePower outage hits nearly 3,000
Nearly 3,000 customers are without power in the College Heights area and towards Beaverly, according to B.C. Hydro, which aims to have power restored by 6 p.m.The area affected is described as south of...
View ArticleQuesnel offers essential services example
Water, sewer, police and payroll will receive varying degrees of protection should City of Prince George unionized employees go on strike, if the experience in Quesnel nearly three-and-a-half years ago...
View ArticleDonation causing a Commotion
Roman Muntener's metal sculpture of tumbling people in the Gateway called Commotion, at the corner of 20th and Victoria, is newly adorned with homemade toques. The anonymous donor said anyone needing a...
View ArticleDogs give crime a good licking
Prince George RCMP's victim services unit has a new breed of caseworker on the roster.Since September, three therapy dogs have been providing their services to victims of crime and trauma after victim...
View ArticleCouncil meets tonight to talk bylaws
Prince George city council will hold a regular meeting tonight and Mayor Shari Green said the unusual scheduling has nothing to do with the looming strike by the city's unionized workers.Rather, she...
View ArticleWanted man arrested in Dease Lake
A man wanted for allegedly attacking and seriously injuring three people outside a Prince George nightspot late last week has been apprehended.Jason Dennis Townsend, 36, was arrested near Dease Lake,...
View ArticleGrow-op sentence issued
A Calgary man was sentenced to a two-year conditional sentence for his role in operating a marijuana grow operation outside Prince George.Christopher Jeremy Kunze, 35, received the term Wednesday in...
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