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The average sale price for a single-family home for the year so far was just under $300,000, although the number of sales has declined, according to third-quarter figures released Friday by the B.C. Northern Real Estate Board.

The city's unemployment rate stood at 6.1 per cent in September, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers released Friday. The figure is down from 7.3 per cent for the same month last year.

A Prince George man has been charged with impaired driving causing bodily harm from a single-vehicle rollover that RCMP have said left a passenger in the car seriously injured.

Crews from four fire halls responded to a fully-involved structure fire at 4402 Giscome Road on Friday morning.

Drivers heading south this long weekend should keep an eye out for pooling water on Highway 97 South.

Prince George RCMP and the school district have lifted the lockdown at local high schools after online threats put six schools again in code yellow. "RCMP investigators have determined that the threats are non-credible and in some cases, out dated.

Over the next three years, a group of researchers will follow the effects of Mount Polley mine tailings breach from the "physics to fish." University of Northern B.C.

Children who live in the Bowl and South Fort George area have some of the worst developmental outcomes in the province, a mapping project has found. The first round of developmental mapping from the University of B.C.

St. Vincent de Paul Society is preparing to feed about 800 people Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart auditorium at 887 Patricia Blvd.

The Council of Forest Industries is putting on a photo contest to showcase "the importance of the forest industry in B.C. and the diversity of the people who are part of it.