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A Prince George man who led police on a chase through city streets was sentenced Wednesday to a further 10 months in jail.

Prince George's new license plate technology will be scanning plates and helping officers issue tickets starting Monday.

A total of 43 firearms were handed over during the recently-ended month-long gun amnesty, Prince George RCMP said Wednesday. Broken down, RCMP took in 27 rifles, eight handguns and eight shotguns as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition.

A 27-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to one year probation after he was found in possession of a high-priced mountain bike that went missing from the front of a fast food restaurant in July.

The resurfacing of Upper Fraser Road is now complete, the provincial government said Wednesday. The project included a pavement overlay on 17.25 kilometres from the Willow River Bridge toward Newlands, and on 2.5 kilometres of Shelley Road.

Mayor Lyn Hall will join community policing volunteers in handing out free reflectors and tip cards to walkers on Thursday morning as part of a province-wide pedestrian safety campaign. They will be at the Pine Centre Mall bus loop, 7:30-9 a.m.

By the time the Site C hydroelectric dam is paid off, fusion or some other energy advancement might already have made it obsolete.

In a few short months, local researchers will have access to information unlike ever before. The University of Northern B.C. is building a Statistics Canada Research Data Centre .

Colleen Fitzpatrick has been named this year's National Silver Cross Mother by the Royal Canadian Legion. She'll place a wreath at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Nov. 11 in honour of her son Cpl.

Exactly what led to a fiery and fatal head-on collision between a tractor trailer and a pickup truck south of the city nine months ago will remain a mystery.