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A B.C. Supreme Court Justice wants more information before deciding how much of a sentence to hand down to a man convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.

Ollie the cat has reunited with his owner in Prince George and will be traveling to his home in Florida today. As Ollie's unfurry family was moving from Alaska to Florida, they made a stop at Pine Centre Mall on July 4.

Highway 97 has been reopened to single-lane alternating eight kilometres south of Williams Lake following a vehicle Incident earlier this afternoon, the Ministry of Transportation's DriveBC service said in an alert issued shortly before 5 p.m.

One person was killed Wednesday morning in a single-vehicle incident on Highway 16 east of the city, Prince George RCMP has confirmed. Emergency personnel were called to the scene, nine kilometres east of Purden Lake at 8:45 a.m.

A long-gestating plan to introduce stricter rules about where people can smoke in public will be put under public scrutiny this fall.

The city could be readying another bid for a major sporting event. During Monday night's meeting, city council will be asked to consider authorizing making a pitch to host the 2020 B.C. Summer Games.

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Friday is the last day for teachers to pick up literary resources and at the same time honour the memory of one of School District 57's respected leaders.

A Prince George man was sentenced Thursday to a further 13 months behind bars for leading jailhouse attacks on two inmates that began after one of the victims complained the "big guys" were "hoarding all the milk." In all, B.C.

City council may take the first steps towards banning vehicles from parking in bike lanes Monday night. On Aug. 31, the group will discuss Coun.