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It’s a partnership between the College of New Caledonia and School District 57, and a local mining group is making sure it keeps going. The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) made a $10,000 donation Monday to the Career and Technical Centre (CTC). The centre allows students in the district to take two semesters of high school and two semesters at CNC during their Grade 11 and 12 years. This allows them to finish with both Grade 12 and the first year of...

If you’re wondering what it means to be a Wheelin’ Warrior, mark Jan. 14 on your calendar. The Wheelin’ Warriors of the North is a Prince George-based team which takes part in the Ride to Conquer Cancer, a bicycle ride and fundraiser for the BC Cancer Foundation. This will be the third year for the Wheelin’ Warriors, and team captain Karin Piche says they already have 37 people signed up. The Warriors do the Classic ride, which is a two-day ride from Vancouver to Seattle, covering more than...

The holidays are a time of going and visiting friends and family. That means parking on the city’s residential streets. “Parking restrictions for snow routes will still be in place,” said Gina Layte Liston, associate director of public works for the city. Those restrictions are: • Downtown areas - no parking from midnight to 7 a.m. as posted. Alternative off-street parking downtown is available. • Residential areas - no parking 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. • Residential areas -...

Ryan Chiappe says the police have it all wrong. “If you think I stole that puppy I have some beachfront property in Mackenzie to sell you,” he posted on his Facebook page days after Prince George RCMP accused him of stealing a puppy and charged him with assault causing bodily harm, assault, obstructing justice, extortion, uttering threats, two counts of theft under $5,000, two counts of possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000, and possession of property obtained by crime over...

Editor: It is with a heavy heart that I write this letter. As a former university student, a female, and a staff member of a Canadian post-secondary institution, I am sickened by the appalling decision from Dalhousie President Richard Florizone in regard to the recent misogyny on campus. The decision of the University not to expel fourth year Dentistry students who created a “Gentlemen’s Club” Facebook page to ‘joke’ about carrying out sexual violence on fellow female students is...

Editor: I would like to thank the three boys from Duchess Park Secondary who stopped to help when my husband had a heart attack on our driveway at the beginning of December. A big heartfelt thank you goes to Tim Merchant, Trent Varley and Tristan Marvici. Also thank you to Jared Potter who came along the next day with his friends to deliver a plant and card to the hospital. It was so thoughtful of them all. My whole family appreciates their concern and willingness to lend a hand. My...

As B.C. hunters packed rooms to protest regulations giving guide-outfitters and their out-of-province clients a larger share of big-game permits, the provincial government argues that the shift is being exaggerated. The latest increase in the share of guide permits to hunt moose, grizzly bear and other restricted animals in limited-entry hunting areas of B.C. totals 618 “hunting opportunities” across the province per year, says a statement from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural...

The federal government has given its environmental approval to a proposed $5.3 billion gold mine north of here. But proponent Seabridge Gold will also have to undertake a series of environmental protection and other measures for its Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell open pit and underground copper, gold, silver and molybdendum project which would process up to 130,000 tonnes a day of material and have a life span of more than 50 years. Federal environment minister Leona Aglukkaq, in giving her...