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It's all thanks to Bea Dezell. "Bea got me started," said Sylvia Cooney, 89, volunteer for the Canadian Council of the Blind White Cane Club, Prince George chapter, for more than 30 years.

During the most-recent Citizen online poll we asked the question "What's your favourite Christmas movie?" The Grinch Who Stole Christmas took top spot with 72 votes, which is 23 per cent of the total.

By the time 2017 is over, some long-running cases could come to an end. Three of four people implicated in the 2012 death of Fribjon Bjornson, the Vanderhoof man murdered on the Nakazdli reserve near Fort St.

Rapper Flo Rida has nothing on Philicity Rhea Lafreniere. In a desperate bid to avoid arrest in March, the woman jumped onto an actual ice floe and rode it down the Nechako River after breaking into a Miworth home.

Perhaps the highest-profile case to reach a resolution at the Prince George courthouse this year was that of Garrett Steven George.

Two-year-old Mohamad Khalaf tugs at his father's pant leg, reaching up to be pulled into his arms. He's cautious with strangers but the grin reaches his eyes when Mostafa Khalaf finally complies.

Parks and trails remain closed near Nechako River even as river conditions and water levels remain stable.

He's on his own, he has removed himself from his dysfunctional family home so he can get through school and achieve his potential, but he's only getting donated help.

The Prince George Brain Injured Group launched a program this year for jail inmates after an informal study suggested the majority of offenders suffer from at least one traumatic head injury.

A local program that encourages homeowners to exchange old wood stoves got $13,600 as part of a province-wide effort to improve air quality.