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A Surrey man was sentenced Friday to three years in jail for an armed robbery he committed just three days earlier. Andrew Christopher Chapman, 26, was issued the term in Prince George provincial court.

One of seven people arrested during a police raid on a VLA neighbourhood home last year have been sentenced to a year in jail for drug trafficking. Tracy Deborah Gibbon, 46, was issued the term Sept. 2 in Prince George provincial court.

North District RCMP Chief Superintendent Rod Booth has been named a member of the Order of Merit for Police Forces. Booth was among 75 police officers named to the order by Governor General David Johnston during a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

Highway 16 is closed in both directions 10 kilometres west of Topley because of a vehicle incident, according to Drive B.C. The stretch is expected to be reopened sometime between 9 p.m. and midnight and no detour is available.

A slate of five community leaders has been recognized as this year's nominees for Citizen of the Year.

The city's response to its snow clearing operations this past winter were "embarrassing," according to a city councillor.

A Prince George man RCMP caught in the act of downloading child pornography while his two young children were in the same room was sentenced Thursday to a year in jail.

Emotions ran high Friday morning as victim impact statements from the families of the three women and the teenage girl Cody Allan Legebokoff has been convicted of murdering were read into the record during a sentencing hearing at the Prince George co

A year-long investigation led to a large-scale drug bust early this past Tuesday morning. Thirty-three police officers executed a total of eight search warrants.

The emergency response team was called out and the 1500 and 1600 blocks of Fir Street were cordoned off Thursday afternoon when RCMP executed a drug related search warrant on a home in the area.