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From Prince George provincial court, July 17-23, 2015: George William Alexis (born 1973) was sentenced to 22 days in jail and one year probation and ordered to pay a $200 victim surcharge for break and enter with intent to commit an offence.

The city is still looking for someone willing to take on Pine Valley and handle its extra baggage.

B.C. New Democrat leader John Horgan and health critic Judy Darcy are hosting a public health forum in Prince George Monday evening.

When Kirby Tott, a private in the Canadian Forces Reserve, left Prince George for training at a Manitoba military base two weeks ago, he was excited about what it would mean for his ultimate dream to work with the RCMP.

Police are recommending arson charges after a 43-year-old man set fire to his cell at the Prince George RCMP detachment. RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass said the man, who was in the cell alone, used a lighter to start the Sunday morning fire.

Carrier Sekani Tribal Council chief Terry Teegee won another three-year term Friday. Teegee, in his first bid for re-election, garnered 371 votes, good for 56 per cent of the 662 ballots cast for tribal chief in nine polling stations across the area.

A cross-country search for the suspect in the armed robbery of a New Brunswick credit union ended Friday afternoon at a Prince George residence, police said Saturday. RCMP Cpl.

Local real estate agents saw slight increases in both the average price and the number of single-family homes sold during the first half of the year.

Tickets for country music legend Shania Twain's show at CN Centre have not sold out quite yet. As of late Friday afternoon, there were "not many left" according to the Ticketmaster website.

Proponents of a pipeline that would carry natural gas from a pumping station north of Prince George to a liquified natural gas plant in Kitimat are treading carefully as a members of a First Nations community opposed to the project are once again mak