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Firefighters are honing their skills at the training facility near the Prince George Airport this week. The fires they're fighting could produce dark smoke but it's nothing to worry about, according to the Prince George Airport Authority.

VANCOUVER - At Heritage Place Mall in Owen Sound, Ont., an empty Sears department store would leave a mammoth void. The insolvent retailer is one of the mall's largest occupants.

A flasher is on the prowl near UNBC. Three incidents of a teen or young man performing an indecent act near University Way or on the trail system leading up to the University of Northern B.C.

Details surrounding a shooting death just east of the city could be unveiled over the next several weeks as what's expected to be a lengthy trial began Monday for three Vanderhoof-area men accused of a drug-related shooting death.

First Nations in northeast B.C. will receive a $390,000 investment from the B.C. government to help participants build skills and explore careers in environmental stewardship and natural resource development.

B.C.'s Education Minister, Rob Fleming is busy making rounds from school to school in Northern B.C.

Gloria (Proudlock) Thorpe was born in Vancouver at the Grace Maternity Hospital in 1932 just two days after the Burrard Street Bridge was officially opened. Gloria said, "I am 85 and I am just as old as that bridge.

The number of drug-related deaths in Prince George is on pace to exceed last year's total. As of the end of August, there were 16 such fatalities in the city, compared to 18 for all of 2016, according to B.C.

A resource centre in Prince George catering to the needs of people with autism remains in play. "We're still working on it," Pacific Autism Family Network executive director Dawn McKenna said this week.

A 37-year-old local man was arrested and more than $200,000 worth of illicit drugs were seized from two homes this week, Prince George RCMP said Friday.