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The Salvation Army is counting on Prince George's reputation as a last-minute town to reach the fundraising goals it's set for its Christmas campaigns. As of Wednesday, the kettle campaign has raised $161,725.44.

A Prince George man has been charged after an unsuccessful attempt to flee from police on the weekend. After receiving a report of a break and enter in progress at a Forest Avenue home before 11 a.m.

Highway 16 has been reduced to single-lane alternating 35 km east of Prince George, where a vehicle recovery is occurring, DriveBC said in an alert issued at 10:10 a.m.

In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report issued Tuesday, a local MP said he's going to be watching the government's approach to addressing the issues raised by the residential school review.

The City of Prince George will be registering its dissatisfaction about the state of the Ministry of Children and Family Development.

The holidays are a good time to pay special attention to mental health and the ways to ward off seasonal blues. To start consider a key question, said a Northern Health clinical educator.

Responsibility for aboriginal youth in care should be turned over to First Nations social agencies as part of any overhaul of the Ministry of Children and Families, says Carrier Sekani Family Services executive director Mary Teegee.

Two men were sentenced Monday for their roles in a botched home invasion in which one of the perpetrators got more than she bargained for.

Operation Red Nose volunteers delivered 260 safe rides home in Prince George on the weekend. On Friday, 74 volunteers, including 23 road teams, provided 97 rides, travelling 3,092 kilometres.

A 48-year-old Prince George man was arrested and a "significant amount" of heroin and crack cocaine were seized from a 2100-block Tamarack Street home on Monday night, Prince George RCMP said.