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Her father fiddled, her sister fiddled and then finally Beth Bressette fiddled at nearly 60 years old. Bressette has been a volunteer and member of the B.C. Old Time Fiddlers Association for more than 25 years.

UNBC's Community Development Institute was officially opened in Fort St. John Wednesday morning with a ribbon cutting ceremony.

A local resident of Prince George who's volunteered in the community for more than 18 years is the recipient of the Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers.

Born and raised in Prince George, Joshua Tyler Bredo had a dark past even before his latest act of committing manslaughter. He was sentenced Tuesday in Victoria to a nine-year sentence after killing Daniel Levesque in an apartment in Aug. 3, 2011.

There's a new executive director at the Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society of Prince George (IMSS), after long-serving Baljit Sethi was forced to retire as of March 31. Ravi Saxena started as executive director on Monday.

Crews are making progress on a forest fire near Quesnel. As of noon Wednesday, the 168-hectare blaze five kilometres south of Pantage Lake was 55-per-cent contained and had not grown significantly in the previous 24 hours, the B.C.

Trowels and screens in hand, a team of archeologists is at work looking for artifacts where the new pavilion will be erected at Lheidli T'enneh Memorial Park. They began the meticulous, painstaking process on Tuesday.

The Law Enforcement Torch Run drew more than 100 runners and walkers and raised $5,700 for Special Olympics B.C. The event was held Tuesday at the Prince George RCMP detachment. $1,800 of the total was raised through a 50-50 raffle.

Police are on the lookout for a man suspected of attacking a woman and believe he is being harboured in VLA.

It's been a decade since Lucas Degerness went missing, but his mother still holds out hope the mystery of his disappearance will be solved - and better yet, they will be reunited.