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Avalanche Canada has issued a special warning for recreational backcountry users planning to head out into the mountains this weekend.

A long-running tradition is set to take to the trails at Tabor Mountain this Sunday. That's when the 43rd-annual Birchleg ski and snowshoeing tour will be held at the location about a 15-minute drive east of the city.

A Prince George man was found not guilty this week of a robbery and assault after the victim had trouble accurately describing a tattoo on his assailant and video from a nearby business was too murky to accurately identify the attacker.

Nearly three years after going through the process the first time, the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George staff are having another go-round with municipal watchdog staff.

The Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society has received $20,000 from the provincial government toward the delivery of a local anti-racism project.

The 2015 Raise A Reader campaign garnered $35,038.05, up almost $10,000 from 2014, and the proceeds were disbursed through 22 grants to local groups.

Ani Kyd just moved to Hixon. That's right. The mainstay of the Vancouver punk-metal scene is now Prince George's back yard rock star.

Ellis Ross, the chief councillor for the Haisla First Nation, has spent 11 elected years leading an economic development movement that has changed the Haisla from a systemically impoverished people into a B.C. business success story.

An RCMP officer stationed in the central interior will be the subject of a discplinary hearing later this year. A conduct hearing will be held in Williams Lake on Oct. 24 for Cpl. Corey Eggen for allegedly violating the RCMP's code of conduct.

Given the numerous reports and extensive research conducted on the issue over the years, why has nothing yet been done to address the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women? That's one of the questions Carrier Sekani Family Services executive