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Reported missing last week, Keira Zoe Prince, 17, has been located and is safe, Prince George RCMP said Tuesday. "The Prince George RCMP would like to thank those members of the public and the media that helped."

By mid-September, Spruceland Save-On Foods shoppers will be able to buy B.C. wines to go with the food in their grocery cart all under one roof. Work began Tuesday on a 1,250 square-foot showcase for 1,000 different kinds of B.C.

Jumping on the Pokemon Go craze, the Prince George Public Library is offering the Guided Pokemon Go Walking Tour to players, who are known as trainers in the game, every Wednesday night at 8 p.m. for the rest of the summer.

City council gave final reading Monday night to an application to add eight more lots to the Nechako View subdivision. It raises the total at the site to 59.

City council voted Monday night to pull $1.8 million out of a reserve fund to get a jump on repairs to the Willowcale Road at Haggith Creek.

City council voted 8-1 Monday night to pass through the first two readings a bylaw to establish a liquor manufacturing zone. If passed, it will allow for small-scale breweries, distilleries, wineries and cideries in urban Prince George.

It's shaping up to be a banner year on the city's construction front. As of the end of June, 218 permits for $70.

The city's transit service will take to the roads on statutory holidays under a memorandum of understanding city council approved on Monday night.

A new way of dealing with minor bylaw infractions is in the works.

Using an old kitchen cupboard and a few recycled shingles, Jessica Bonin, a teacher librarian at Spruceland Traditional elementary, has opened the first Little Free Library in Prince George on 10th Avenue at the corner of McBride Crescent.