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First Nations in northeast B.C. will receive a $390,000 investment from the B.C. government to help participants build skills and explore careers in environmental stewardship and natural resource development.

B.C.'s Education Minister, Rob Fleming is busy making rounds from school to school in Northern B.C.

Gloria (Proudlock) Thorpe was born in Vancouver at the Grace Maternity Hospital in 1932 just two days after the Burrard Street Bridge was officially opened. Gloria said, "I am 85 and I am just as old as that bridge.

The number of drug-related deaths in Prince George is on pace to exceed last year's total. As of the end of August, there were 16 such fatalities in the city, compared to 18 for all of 2016, according to B.C.

A resource centre in Prince George catering to the needs of people with autism remains in play. "We're still working on it," Pacific Autism Family Network executive director Dawn McKenna said this week.

A 37-year-old local man was arrested and more than $200,000 worth of illicit drugs were seized from two homes this week, Prince George RCMP said Friday.

The Prince George RCMP are asking for the public's help to find a woman who has not been seen since late September.

A coroner's inquest will be held in Quesnel for a man who died after he fell out of the back of an ambulance. Ebony Aaron Wood, 36, died on Nov. 7, 2016, two days after the incident, the B.C. Coroners Service said in a statement issued Friday.

A Foothills water main operation may temporarily cause cloudy water for some Hart residences. City crews are closing a valve today in preparation for a new water main tie-in that will improve water service for the Hart Highway area.

He's only the second from the north to win the elected position as Regional Chief of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations (BCAFN). And Terry Teegee was more than ready to address the Chiefs-in-Assembly after the election, held Thursday.