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Grade 9 student Neyve Eggar is used to talking politics. Her mother teaches political science at the university and dinner conversation can sometimes delve into topics covering issues usually reserved for the classroom.

Captain Ian Bruce Macaskie was an officer with the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. He was with the British Expeditionary Force in France and was captured by the Germans during rear-guard action in 1940. He spent five years in prison camps.

Police have located a Prince George man who was reported missing on Saturday. On Saturday morning police issued a call for anyone with information about the whereabouts of Kale Alexander Welsh, 26 to contact them. Welsh had been missing since 11 p.m.

The city's unemployment rate stood at a rock-bottom 4.9 per cent in October, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers released Friday. That's down from an already low 5.2 per cent in September.

It can be a hard time of year for post-secondary students struggling to balance the sometimes all-encompassing demands of looming deadlines and back-to-back midterms, while juggling work and personal life, for some at an institution far from home.

The University of Northern British Columbia is making it easier for current or former youth in the care of a government agency to attend university.

The provincial government is providing $12,000 to the Prince George Air Improvement Roundtable to encourage residents to replace their old wood stoves with cleaner burning models.

A one-time registration system for off-road vehicles will be launched on Nov. 17, the provincial government said Friday.

Convicted murderer David Mostyn Pritchard went to some length in planning the act and to cover his tracks afterwards, according to a Parole Board of Canada report.

Prince George RCMP will be switching to digital from analog radios in March but it probably won't be worth the expense for scanner addicts to upgrade their equipment accordingly.