Category Archives: Prince George

Library Entrance Project On Budget
PRINCE GEORGE – The library project is moving ahead as planned. That was the message to Council during a recent presentation. The library entrance project had been on the unfunded capital plan f...
Jul 11, 2018

Adopt a Caribou
PRINCE GEORGE – For many years programs have been in place to stop the decline of the BC’s Mountain Caribou. Despite the best efforts of government programs, the caribou population continu...
Jul 11, 2018

Indigenous Artist Creates Totem Pole
PRINCE GEORGE – Hours of painstaking and precise work has gone into Lenard Paquette’s latest creation. The aboriginal artist in residence at the Two Rivers Art Gallery is close to finishin...
Jul 11, 2018

Coroner's Inquest After In-Custody Death
PRINCE GEORGE - An inquest will be held into the 2016 death of Jamie Wilford Shanoss. He died in police cells November 21st, 2016. Under the Coroner’s Act, any deaths that occur while a person i...
Jul 11, 2018

Pidherny Pump Track Challenge
PRINCE GEORGE – The Pidherny Recreation Site is a 620-hectare area located just over 10km to the northwest of downtown. There is a network of mountain bike trails that criss-cross the site. Rece...
Jul 10, 2018

Register Your Bicycle To End Bike Theft
PRINCE GEORGE – Wednesday kicks off a series of bike registration events this month, in order to reduce the number of bike thefts in the city and return those that are stolen to its owner. The W...
Jul 10, 2018

Greyhound Lays Off Local Employees
PRINCE GEORGE- Nearly 5 months after Greyhound Canada announced it will eliminate passenger service in Northern BC, it announced it will no longer provide any service in western Canada. That means the...
Jul 10, 2018

Western Acres To Get New Well
PRINCE GEORGE – It’s been on the City’s wish list for two decades. A new source of water for residents of Western Acres. “At that time, there was a very big boom going on and t...
Jul 10, 2018

Mayor Sees China Trip As Golden Opportunity
PRINCE GEORGE – The City’s Economic Development Manager is in Asia this week, joining a group from the Prince George Airport Authority. Mayor Lyn Hall sees the trip as a golden opportunity...
Jul 09, 2018

Unemployment Rates Low In PG
Prince George continues to post some of the lowest unemployment numbers in BC. That’s according to Stan Mitchell with KPMG, who says on a monthly moving average, Prince George’s unemployme...
Jul 09, 2018