Category Archives: Prince George

On-foot chase leads to guilty plea for theft last week
PRINCE GEORGE-A man was sentenced for a robbery last week that started with an on-foot chase.On Friday, Sept. 6th an RCMP officer happened to catch glimpse of a man wearing a uniform from a local busi...
Sep 10, 2019

RCMP continue to investigate 30-year-old cold case
PRINCE GEORGE-It's been over 30 years since a family of four went missing in Prince George, and police have yet to give up on the investigation.Ronald Jack, his partner Doreen and two children, 9-year...
Sep 10, 2019 Jack family went missing in 1989. Courtesy of the PG RCMP

New snow policy
PRINCE GEORGE - Council has approved a new snow removal and ice control policy, which makes some subtle changes to the existing procedure for clearing roads. The policy still identifies arterial and c...
Sep 9, 2019

BC Thanksgiving Food Drive could be even more vital this year
PRINCE GEORGE - September 21 has been proclaimed as BC Thanksgiving Food Drive Day.This year's drive will be the ninth in Prince George and is the city's largest of the year. Last year, the drive brou...
Sep 9, 2019

New cedar plank project launched at UNBC
UNBC unveiled their new Nenachalhuya, cedar plank project Monday afternoon.32 panels of cedar planks will feature artwork which was submitted by various and diverse Northern B.C First Nations.To compl...
Sep 9, 2019

Red Dress Society holds 4th annual stand-in event
A stand-in event was held Sunday for the Prince George Red Dress Society as they remembered missing and murdered indigenous women along the Highway of Tears.The 4th annual event saw the Khast'an drumm...
Sep 9, 2019

Safety upgrades on transit, for drivers
BC Transit and Arow Global Corporation are moving forward with a full driver door designed at increasing protection for drivers.The project to add the full driver door will cost around $6.5 million an...
Sep 9, 2019

Over $13,000 raised from this year's Parkinson's Superwalk
The Parkinson Superwalk is the single most important fundraising event of the year for the Parkinson Society of BC. This years edition of the event in Prince George took place Saturday at Lheidli T'en...
Sep 9, 2019

PWB plants more than 70,000 seedlings
PRINCE GEORGE-Pacific Western Brewing's (PWB)"Cariboo Cares" reforestation program continued to plant trees this summer.More than 70,000 Spruce and Lodgepole Pine seedlings were planted 50 km southwes...
Sep 9, 2019 More than 70,000 seedlings were planted 50 km south west of Prince George this summer by PWB.

Province invests $2.4 million in adult literacy
PRINCE GEORGE-Stronger reading, writing and math skills, that's what the province is hoping to develop in more than 80 communities across the province with an investment in Community Adult Literacy Pr...
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