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The deadline for submissions to an online survey on the provincial government's climate leadership plan has passed but there is still time to send in comprehensive written submissions, the Ministry of Environment said Friday.

Construction work on Highway 97, 17 kilometres south of the junction with Highway 16, is scheduled to start on Monday at 7:30 a.m. and run through to Sept. 4 at 4:30 p.m., according to the Ministry of Highway's DriveBC service.

Two University of Northern British Columbia students have become the first of what is hoped to be many to participate in an exchange program that will take them to the other side of the world to bolster their studies of indigenous culture.

Ralph Edward Smith, 65 years old, has been found safe, RCMP is reporting. Smith had left his residence on Rainbow Drive on Tuesday and was seen on Connaught Hill Wednesday morning.

A 20-year-old man faces a charge of arson causing damage to property in relation to two fires set Wednesday night along the John Dahl Trail near the Mackenzie Leisure Center.

The owner of Alder Hills golf course is asking for the public's help in tracking down those behind a vandalism spree that wreaked thousands of dollars in damage to the course's greens.

The B.C. SPCA's Million Acts of Kindness campaign is more than halfway towards its goal.

Prince George RCMP are asking for the public's help to locate a missing local man. It's believed Matthew John White, 28, left Prince George on July 10 and has not spoken to friends or family since July 29.

The Salvage Store will stay open for business for now, despite operating in a legal limbo. The Hearts and Hands for Homes Society is appealing a July B.C. Supreme Court decision in favour of Habitat for Humanity Canada.

Prince George RCMP arrested 13 people and seized a "significant amount" of drugs after executing a search warrant on an 1800-block Spruce Street home on Saturday afternoon.