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Prince George RCMP announced Wednesday they have made five arrests in connection with the murder in 2012 of Jordan Christian Reno. Four of those arrested have been charged with first-degree murder, including Lyle William Baker, 42, Kevin Roy Zaporoski, 47, Bradley Douglas Barr, 35, and Dustin Allen Lindgren, 26. A fifth person, a 29-year-old female, has been arrested, and the investigation into her involvement is continuing. Supt. Warren Brown, the Officer in Charge of the Prince George...

The independent engineer’s report into the collapse of a tailings pond wall at Mount Polley mine really didn’t hold too many surprises. When the breach happened there weren’t too many who felt such a catastrophic breach wasn’t preventable. It certainly was, and the engineers pointed to a faulty design. “The design did not take into account the complexity of the sub-glacial and pre-glacial geological environment associated with the perimeter embankment foundation,” according to the repor...

  In just under a week, the 2105 Canada Winter Games will open in our city. It is time to get excited if you are not so already. Strangely there are people out there who think it is no big deal. They are wrong; it is a very big deal. The Games are the preview of the next Olympic Games. The participants are the cream of the youth athletes from over 800 towns and cities in Canada. There will be participants in these Games who will be on the podium in future Olympics. Of the 18...

A dispute between Brink Forest Products and BCR Properties deserves to have its day in court, according to a Supreme Court justice. BCR Properties had sought to dismiss a civil claim launched against it by Brink Forest Products regarding the use of property for a sawmill, but Justice J. Steeves ruled February 2 that “there are triable issues between the parties.” The dispute goes back 10 years and centers around property on Boundary Road. In early 2005, Brink Forest Products started leasing...

With two weeks to go in the Canada West men’s basketball regular season, Todd Jordan likes where the UNBC Timberwolves are. “We’re happy with controlling our own destiny,” the coach said after a weekend sweep of the MacEwan University Griffins at home on the weekend. “Being up two games in the playoff race with four games left is a good spot.” The Timberwolves are currently tied with Thompson Rivers University for second place in the Explorer Division with records of 9-7. Mount Royal is...

Sergey Shchepotkin knew what he wanted at the beginning of the season. “I didn’t really expect a lot of wins,” the coach of the UNBC Timberwolves women’s basketball team says. “I wanted to see the players increase the level of their skills this year.” Despite two losses on the weekend at home to the MacEwan University Griffins, he is seeing that growth. “We have been working on specific things as the year went along,” he said. “Now we are working on defence. “We want to be competitive, and...

A 31-year-old man is dead following a two-vehicle crash near Fraser Lake Thursday morning. Fraser Lake RCMP were called to the scene at 8:39 a.m. The accident involved a collision between a commercial vehicle and a pickup truck about two kilometres east of Fraser Lake. A woman who was a passenger in the deceased’s vehicle, escaped with minor injuries. The highway will be closed in both directions for an undetermined amount of time as a North District collision re-constructionist is on...

Her smiling face lights up a room. But Shirley Dodd, 83, lives in a world of darkness. It has been that way for as long as she can remember. By the time she was 13 years old, Dodd’s vision was almost completely gone. Diagnosed with adolescent onset cataracts, she had her first eye operation done in Vancouver as a teenager. “I was getting by but my eyesight was diminishing. The day before I lost my sight in 1944 or 1945, I got 99 per cent on my tests at school. The next day I went to school,...

The City of Prince George has released a new and interactive mobile-friendly snow and ice operations map — just in time for this week’s expected heavy dump of snow. This snow operations map, accessible directly at http://bit.ly/11kxrlz or from the link on the city snow operations web page www.princegeorge.ca/snow, allows residents to click on any road within the city to determine its snow removal priority level, and applicable parking restrictions. The map is ready to use for smartphones,...