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School is back. BCTF president Jim Iker announced Thursday night that teachers voted 86 per cent to ratify a six-year deal with the provincial government. The vote ends the longest provincewide strike in B.C.

A man was killed Wednesday in an exchange of gunfire during a standoff near Valemount with an RCMP emergency response team, the Independent Investigations Office said. The man died at the scene while a woman is receiving medical care.

The 2014 Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure will be held Sunday, October 5 this year starting at the Prince George Civic Centre.

During World Alzheimer's Awareness month, the ME in Dementia: Increasing Understanding Along the Dementia Journey conference took place Tuesday at the Ramada Hotel.

The 10th annual Evening of Pink will be held Saturday at the Prince George Civic Centre.

Construction began on nine new homes in Prince George and area last month, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

The Prince George Farmers' Market, Nancy O's Restaurant and Terri McClymont are the local winners of the We Heart Local Awards, presented by the B.C. Agriculture Council.

There's still time to enter the BC SPCA's sixth annual Wildlife-In-Focus photography contest. All amateur photographers aged 14 and up are invited to enter the competition by sending their best of B.C. wildlife photographs by Sept. 30.

A walk will be held in Prince George as part of International Peace Day. Set for Sunday, it starts at 11 a.m.

B.C. Attorney General Suzanne Anton is disputing a claim that the Highway of Tears investigation has been gutted. "There was no reduction in 2012/13 for investigations into missing women, as reported in the media," Anton said in a statement.