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A stretch of Highway 97 south of Prince George was closed for several hours Thursday night after a utility truck ran into the back of a flat-deck tractor trailer that had stopped as directed by construction flaggers.

Four organizations in Prince George and the region are receiving provincial funds to help enhance adult literacy programs. A total of $64,494 was distributed around the area as part of the $2.

The provincial government is taking action to combat the public use of drones to get a better look at wildfires, Prince George-Mackenzie MLA Mike Morris said Friday.

The city's unemployment rate stood at 7.7 per cent in August, three percentage points higher than for the same month last year, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers released Friday.

A Prince George couple is leaving their home and selling most of their possessions for the chance to work on a charity hospital ship for two years.

Drivers are being urged to be cautious as they take to the highways this Labour Day long weekend. Statistics show the number of serious crashes rises during long weekends.

The manager of the B.C. Wildfire Branch's Prince George Fire Centre is thanking the weather for a relatively quiet forest fire season in the local area.

Prince George RCMP trying to get to the bottom of an incident that ended late Friday morning with a head-on collision downtown after one of the drivers turned wrong direction onto a one-way street.

Three men face charges related to the theft of a pick up truck, flat deck trailer and several spools of insulated copper wire from an Ogilvie Street business.

Charges have been approved against a Prince George man who was arrested Wednesday within minutes of RCMP being called to the hold up of a gas station.