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When it comes to pot and how to sell it, readers of the Prince George Citizen are all over the board.

A Fort St. James man was found to be not criminally responsible for two separate attempts to kidnap children, as well as one charge of assault and one charge of obstructing a peace officer on Tuesday.

Credibility of the witnesses was a key theme when Crown and defence counsels delivered closing arguments Tuesday in the trial for a former chief of the Fort St. James fire department accused of sexually assaulting three female volunteers.

Prince George RCMP are on the lookout for a parolee on the loose. Sullvie Poole, 49, is described as First Nations, 173 cm (5'8") tall and weighing 84 kg (185 lbs) with black hair, brown eyes and tattoos on both arms.

Local MLAs Shirley Bond and Mike Morris expressed relief with the decision of the Horgan government to go ahead with the Site C dam, but rebuffed claims that the previous B.C. Liberal government had mismanaged the project. B.C.

Wilderness tourism operators in the Chilcotin say they are disgusted with the failure of senior governments to defend their financial investments, and vow to risk arrest rather than allow a First Nation to put them out of business.

B.C.'s Minister of Mental Health and Addictions is praising a review of downtown health services conducted earlier this month by Northern Health. The Downtown Prince George Health Services Review, publicly released Dec.

Patrons of the city's Save On Foods donated enough groceries to fill 22 police cars Sunday during a pre-Christmas fundraiser put on by the RCMP. The total surpassed last year's total of 20.

A Fort St. James man has been slapped with a peace bond requiring him to stay away from anyone under age 16 over an act of sexual predation.

Two Treaty 8 First Nations opposed to Site C say they'll be seeking a court injunction to halt the dam's continued construction.