Critics have long questioned whether the Northern Adventure ferry is suitable for the stormy waters off B.C.'s north coast, and Monday's aborted voyage, which saw the vessel return to shore because of high winds, is bound to add to the controversy.

Midwives in B.C. are raising the alarm about a potential slowdown in the province's only registered midwife training program.

U.S. government safety regulators are recalling more than 2.1 million drop-side cribs made by B.C.-based Stork Craft Manufacturing, the biggest crib recall in U.S. history.

The outdoor skating rink at Robson Square in the heart of downtown Vancouver has been reopened for the first time in nearly 10 years.

Billy Graham rapid response teams are among a host of outreach efforts Christian groups plan for the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.

Abbotsford council was voting Monday night on plans for a Canuck Place children’s hospice in Abbotsford that would eliminate the long trip to Vancouver’s facility for hundreds of sick children and their families.

METRO VANCOUVER - Bernd Dittrich was remembered Monday as a talented athlete and a sharing individual who gave back to Simon Fraser University much more than he ever took.

Vancouver restaurant owners will no longer face a strict limit on how much alcohol they can sell, city Coun. Heather Deal said Monday.

Vancouver’s boulevard tree-planting program is on the chopping block as part of the park board’s efforts to make up a $2.8-million budget shortfall.

A father and son accused of killing a teenage girl who ran away from a Fraser Valley group home are scheduled to begin a jury trial next Monday in B.C. Supreme Court in Chilliwack.

A middle-aged man was found dead near an intersection in Langley Monday night, a possible victim of a hit-and-run driver.

The forgotten man is easy to spot in the bowels of GM Place.

A 15-month-old Ontario boy fell to his death from a balcony at Toronto's Pearson International Airport Sunday evening after slipping from mother's arms.

A witness told a Victoria court Monday that she was kicked in the mouth and held at gunpoint as her ex-boyfriend was beaten to death by a former B.C. municipal politician and his two sons.

When a middle-aged man walked into an AA meeting earlier this year, yelling and pointing loaded guns at people, longtime newspaperman Jack Tennant jumped in to defuse the situation.

The deadline for nominations is drawing near.The opportunity to add someone to the list of those who could join the 52 athletes, coaches and builders already inducted into the Prince George Sports Hall of Fame.The most-recent induction ceremony was in 2008, and the next banquet is slated to take place on April 10, 2010, at the Kinsmen Hall. To date, the nomination committee has received just ...

If not for a ridiculous effort from an opposition goaltender, the Prince George Integris Credit Union bantam Cougars, the city’s Tier 2 team, would’ve been in gold contention.The Cougars finished fourth in a weekend event in Grand Prairie, but not without getting off to a frustrating start against the hosts.Grande Prairie goalie Jayden Lavalley stopped an incredible 70 shots in the tournament’s ...

The Prince George Cougars have acquired 18-year-old winger Spencer Asuchak from the Tri-City Americans for a conditional 2010 bantam draft choice.Asuchak, who lived in Prince George from Grade 2 to Grade 7 and played for the peewee rep team, is six-foot-four and 210 pounds, and has 50 games of WHL experience.For more, see Tuesday's Citizen.

The search remains ongoing for a Williams Lake man whose been missing for nearly two weeks.Tyler Walton, 25, was last seen on Nov. 9 at 7 p.m.He's described as an outgoing person, in good physical shape, about 5'11" tall and 150 lbs and wears his hear at medium length and normally has a full beard.Police have made numerous inquiries but despite this, no leads have surfaced to explain Walton's ...

Think Ben Heppner with a deeper voice and you'll get an idea of what's in store when Canadian opera sensation Russell Braun takes to the Prince George Playhouse stage on Sunday, Dec. 6.The baritone has been lauded by critics around the world as one of our country's finest singers and has performed in some of the world's foremost venues -- the Metropolitan Opera in New York, l'Opra de Paris and ...

Trevor the dog is back in city custody, after being spotted on the street without his muzzle.

The Yukon’s mining industry heard about the worldwide recession, but it really didn’t feel it, government geologist Mike Burke said this morning in his address to the 37th Yukon Geoscience Forum in Whitehorse.

Air Canada has added another 70 seats per day to its Vancouver route for the Christmas season.

The excitement was almost bursting out of Takhini Arena this weekend; there wasn’t a parking spot to be found, and a line up of excited hockey fans wound its way through the parking lot.