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Mervin Lynn Walkus, a 38-year-old First Nations male, is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for being unlawfully at large. The arrest warrant was issued after Walkus did not return to his designated residence in Prince George.

Prince George will take a stab at welcoming the province's best athletes in five years. On Monday night, city council approved the preparation of a bid for the 2020 B.C. Summer Games.

A petition in support of a camp set up southwest of Houston to protest plans to run natural gas pipelines through the area is raising concerns for the chiefs of four Wet'suwet'en clans who are in favour of the work.

A proposed city bylaw has the potential to push smokers further and further from public spaces.

B.C.'s new education minister said School District 57 faces difficult decisions when dealing with its rural schools. Mike Bernier acknowledged the capacity issue that many of the region's rural schools face.

City council added an examination of how to pull back the curtain on closed meetings to its work plan. A strategic planning session for the group planned for Oct.

A 30-year-old Prince George man died Monday after the motorcycle he was riding collided with a pickup truck in Swan River, Man. RCMP said the crash happened around 4:45 p.m. The motorcyclist was rushed to hospital, but later died.

A meteorologist for The Weather Network is predicting some warmer than usual weather for the Central Interior this fall - but you'll have to be patient.

The Prince George Community Foundation's Citizen of the Year celebration is going plural. Rather than bestowing the honour on just one person, as many as five individuals or couples will be named under a change to the format announced Tuesday.

Janet Holder, the woman once regarded as the local figurehead for Enbridge's controversial Northern Gateway pipeline, died Monday following a long battle with leukemia.