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Canfor Corp. has inked a deal to sell its Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Limited Partnership to Paper Excellence B.V. Netherlands-based Paper Excellence is a subsidiary of Asian-giant Sinarmas, which recently purchased the shuttered Mackenzie pulp mill.

A man found guilty of setting a fire in Prince George Regional Correctional Centre has been ordered to pay nearly $210,000 in restitution.

Residents of Lombardy Mobile Home Park are on edge after the latest in a series of fires in the area, all believed to have been deliberately set, destroyed a shed late Friday night.

The search continued Friday night for a Prince George teen missing since July 20. Police are asking for the public's assistance in locating Shane Unake Hawkins, who was last seen Tuesday after leaving his family's home.

The City of Prince George 2010 Capital Road Rehabilitation Program has been completed under budget, allowing for an additional project to commence. Almost 2 km of University Way, from Shane Creek to Tyner Boulevard, will be paved on Tuesday, July 27.

A Prince George youth won B.C.'s Pink Photo Contest, in which he shared the reason he was running in the CIBC Run for the Cure. Ryan Maclellan is running for his mother, after she was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after he lost his father.

Thanks to savings realized on the projects already completed, at least one additional project has been added to the list. On Monday, a crew will start work on repaving 1.

The city will receive $506,602 in the latest instalment of traffic fine revenue from the provincial government while the Fraser-Fort George Regional District will get a $49,141 small communities grant. In all $38.

Students at Ecole Franco-Nord Elementary will benefit from cleaner air and more efficient heating, thanks to an $800,000-investment from the Province and school district.

"Prince George is one of the most unsafe cities in Canada for women," said Carrie Forbes, women's services outreach worker at the Prince George Elizabeth Fry Society. P.G.