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Inside the Horton house, parents Janine and Dave Horton can never quite sit still without one of their four young children crawling over them or tugging an arm for attention.

The Adoptive Families Association of BC is celebrating its new office in Prince George Saturday to showcase the services it offers to adoptive families and to encourage more people to consider becoming parents.

Crown counsel has approved seven charges each against two people, including two counts of making or possessing explosives, stemming from the police search of an 1100-block Ahbau Street home on Thursday.

Prince George RCMP responded to a report of a woman being threatened with a firearm Thursday and ended up taking down a needle-ridden drug house in the 1800 block of Spruce Street.

A Prince George man will serve a further two years in jail followed by three years probation for sexually assaulting two women, one of them a sex-trade worker. Aric Phillip Gourlin, 32, was issued the term Friday in B.C.

The Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society (IMSS) celebrated Multiculturalism Week with an open house held on Friday with the clear message that refugees, from wherever they come from, are welcome in Prince George.

The number of people in Prince George and area collecting Employment Insurance stood at 1,750 in September, according to the latest numbers from Statistics Canada, issued this week.

Work began on just eight single-family homes in October, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, half the number of starts during the same month last year.

Prince George's two Conservative MPs have been assigned duties within the Opposition shadow cabinet.

The Community Development Institute presents Women in Leadership: Man, They're Good! on Monday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the University of Northern B.C., Room 6-205, across from the Canfor Theatre.