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With classes soon to be out for the summer, the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia is urging drivers to expect even more children to be playing outside during the day. And road safety is not always top of mind for youngsters.

North Central Seniors Association was filled with hoopla Friday as about 30 seniors celebrated the end of the club's season at College Heights Baptist Church.

City council will consider remedial action on two more problem properties at its meeting Monday. Staff reports on the Mytting Road and Spruce Street homes show a collapsing structure in one and junk piled in the front and backyard in the other.

One moment, two buddies were driving along Blackwater Road headed for a Saturday afternoon at the shooting range and the next they were combing the ditch for a missing woman.

Events of the last few weeks have shown that even the quietest of Prince George neighbourhoods is not immune to drug-related gunplay, but there is a way homeowners can help RCMP nip what's become an emerging - and dangerous - problem in the bud.

Conditions are favourable in the Prince George area for the development of severe thunderstorms that may be capable of producing strong wind gusts, large hail and heavy rain, Environment Canada said in an advisory issued this morning.

Forty-three people have been charged in a sprawling year-long police investigation into the street- and mid-level drug trade in the Peace Region, B.C.'s gang task force announced June 24.

Prince George is home to only a few international aid agencies. A new one joins the non-governmental organization (NGO) family tonight. The name of the organization is Our Satya.

School District 57 received nearly $13 million to fund the education of 745 children with special needs during the 2015/16 school year but there seems to be little oversight of how or where the money is spent.

After a seven-year battle, a Prince George mother is moving her family to Nanaimo to get a better education for her son with special needs.