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Merry Christmas, Happy New Year

Who loves and who hates the downtown core plan?

Megalopolis

The 35th most livable city to live in Canada falls to 64

It's almost Christmas

Concepts of a downtown plan

Obituary: The medic of Moccasin Flats

More on wind energy and renewable diesel projects in Prince George

A Spanish-Lheidli T'enneh wind power project is coming

I am basically a houseplant

The PG Eras

New State of the North report

There's a cybertruck in town

Bathroom report due by the 3rd quarter of 2025

Santa Claus comes to town

5,218 new housing units needed by 2026

The Citizen has a municipal affairs reporter again (and maybe a court reporter?)

Who is eating at the airport?

The mayor declares Christian Heritage Month

There's a deer wearing a high-vis vest in McBride

I share two unsolicted and probably wrong opinions

New living wage just rose (and property crime dropped)

CNC prepares for the foreign student reduction fallout

Northern Health defends itself in lawsuit from musician Amy Blanding

Winter has arrived (hopefully? Maybe?)

The elephant on the hill

The cost of security

The first Hindu temple has opened in Prince George

Pigeons at the Aquatic Centre

In 25 years, downtown Prince George has only grown by 50 people. How can we change that?

The world's first wooden satellite has been launched into space, and a local legal battle between dental giants

Act locally

Here comes the conversation about election integrity

Snow-fall-back

It's wild how the best Prince George meme page is also the official city page

Trick or treat watch 2024, letters on urban vs rural, firetruck goodbyes

A new Family Fun Centre and a long read about Prince George's forestry decline and future

Time for Prince George to get bear smart?

I can't keep up with the nightlife in this city

The man who disappeared after the 2009 airport fire has been declared dead

The cheapest house in Prince George was sold

That time Mr. PG dressed in a tutu and made the mayor uncomfortable

Is it possible Prince George voted NDP while other areas voted Conservative (spoiler: no, no it isn't)

Is the 'blue wave' in Prince George really more of a stable tide with an orange undercurrent? It's the post-election newsletter

It's election day

Advance voting numbers and UK power company admits it was burning old-growth wood from B.C.

A TikToker came to Prince George and didn't like it much

New parking rules (and an app) for streets around the hospital

That big hydrogen project is not moving forward

Here's a bunch of stuff about the local election candidates

The Exploration Place has heard your complaints and is adding a kid's area

Musician Amy Blanding files a lawsuit against Northern Health, alleging she lost job over song and social media post

People of the north believe there's more crime than our southern counterparts

There can only be one (Mr. PG)

Funeral and Celebration of Life for Edie Frederick

New Indian convenience store opening by CNC and your opinions on Mr. PG

Mr. PG is moving downtown and Lheidli T'enneh Memorial is getting a new playground

What if there was an all-candidates debate and only one candidate came?

The first (only?) set of local provincial election debates is this week and starts tonight

Club 1177 (Lambda) is under new ownership

New fall just dropped

Bruce Wayne wants you to be able to ride an e-scooter

Bylaw officers haven't used their batons or pepper spray yet

Missing six-year-old found after 3 nights on her own

In his potentially last days as premier, David Eby once again shouts-out Prince George

You can now drive an electric vehicle from Prince George to the Yukon

The jellyfish are coming

Honouring an elder

John Rustad needs to win two elections

A list of animals I have seen since August 30

Summer dispatch: Could Prince George have a Calgary-style water shortage? And some thoughts on shoplifting and homeless camp fires

Closed due to good weather

An extra extra long weekend for Northern Capital News

'All of these thing suck big-time'

The right kind of red tape to save forestry jobs

Human-caused wildfires

Stop gaslighting me about the northern lights

We aren't all farmers, Globe and Mail

The $7,000 coffee budget, and other school district cuts

End of the beginning

Single-source stories and RCMP responses

On the road

I was not prepared for the tragedy of CKPG's Wikipedia entry

Straight Into PG

6 homicides confirmed for 2024

Prince George is now on the province's housing targets list

Council hopes temporary housing project will support bid to dismantle homeless camp

Wildfires, AI and bears, oh my

Millar Addition residents want homeless camp shut down as a condition of supporting supportive housing

A massive wildfire conference is in town this weekend

Nobody likes anything

The Nechako River drought as seen from space

In my fallow era

House prices are above half a million again

Don't call it a strip club

'That is what seven years of deployment in Prince George does to officers'

Partial eclipse of the heart

Will townhalls and committees solve downtown safety issues?

$5,000 in buried cash

No, the Citizen isn't buying Hell Yeah Prince George

Downtown safety issues drive a school program out

Here is what every councillor said when I asked if they owned short-term rentals (Spoiler: It was "No")

The tallest dust devil I've ever seen

0.2 per cent below the target vacancy rate is still below the target vacancy rate

Imagine a city with bathrooms

The real sign of spring? Ants

The bears are back in town, the bears are back in town

Dune (Part Two): Impending doom

Guest post: Safe supply increases the safety of frontline workers

Your letters on safer supply and short-term rentals

The political football keeps getting kicked

A Prince George RCMP press release kicks of a political football

The world has changed a lot in the 10 years since Hell Yeah Prince George was founded

There's gonna be bears in the police report

A belated birthday

Coun. Klassen joins call for 'Most Dangerous Cities' rankings to end

Old growth forest from B.C. is still being burned in Britain

Happy Garbage Day

Corrected links from today's newsletter

1,000

Where did we stay before Airbnb's existed?

City council is ready to fight (respectfully?) the province over Airbnb regulations

An LNG plant for Prince George, and some historic highs for local sports teams

Moose on a roof

We've entered the hip-hop nostalgia era of legacy tour acts

It takes twice as long to get from Vancouver to Prince George as it does to get from Prince George to Vancouver

So how far is it from Prince George to Vancouver, anyways?

Did a teacher really need to be disciplined for bringing peanuts to school? And other letters

What's with the winter homicides?

Two llamas

The new pro-PG stance at the Citizen cuts a columnist

Wildfire season is here again

The gun gas station's been robbed again

I don't think we're going back to having a local social media site

No crypto mine for Salmon Valley

Take me to church

The Citizen lives to see another day

Let's talk about the tiny home burning in Moccasin Flats

Windy city

What even is winter

Bohemian Waxwing-idy

A Disney+ subscription's worth of new taxes

The January-February transition is when we feel like a real city

A pine beetle burns in effigy: South Dakota shows us a missed opportunity

Chuck Chin gave us collective memories

Cariboo Stops the North

Bear Lake enters the geopolitical stage

David Eby comes to town in a parka, with announcements galore

I think there could be a market for more events between Christmas and New Year’s

Off the rails