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More than a week after a national leadership conference and four Prince George students are still bursting with energy and ideas from the Halifax event.

Location matters when it comes to your smoke alarm. That's the message behind this year's Fire Prevention Week campaign, "Hear the Beep Where You Sleep.

CIBC Run for the Cure, presented by the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation on Oct. 4, saw 313 participants raise $66,745.

Rural Crime Watch and Block Watch will be the focus but they won't be the only topics on the agenda when a trio of public meetings are held over the coming weeks.

A community organizer is still waiting for answers from School District 57 after publicly asking the school board last week why he's been banned from planning diversity events in schools.

The provincial government's announcement last week that B.C.-made wines, beers and spirits can now be sold at artisanal markets comes too late for this year's Studio Fair.

Prince George RCMP are on the lookout for a suspect after a male produced a knife when a Prince George Secondary School student approached him because he was trying to enter cars in the school's parking lot on Monday afternoon.

This weekend Vanderhoof RCMP charged two men in connection with a double homicide that took place in January 2013. Shaun Keith Goodwin, 21, of Vanderhoof and a 20-year-old man have both been charged with two counts of second-degree murder.

The Auxiliary to University Hospital of Northern B.C. has a few gaps in its volunteer hours. The most pressing need is at the hospital's gift shop. The weekday shift from 4 to 7 p.m.

When it comes to resource development, northern B.C. has strong researchers looking at the impact on environment, and community and human health. But the groups aren't necessarily working together and sharing that knowledge, said Chris Buse.