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After preparing for the 2013 Canada Summer Games for years, organizers in Sherbrooke are heaving a sigh of relief.

With the event just two months away, organizers have issued a call for people to register for the CIBC Run for the Cure. "Last year, we had 455 participants who raised $108,602," Prince George co-run director Renee McCloskey said.

The federal government has confirmed up to $200,000 for a two-year Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society project to increase the leadership skills of culturally diverse young women in northern B.C.

Back to school plans are coming together, but some student visas are not being processed fast enough for many international students planning to further their studies in Prince George.

The city could be leaving it up to a private contractor to handle recycling duties when curbside collection begins next spring.

One of Canada's leading advocates speaking out for the nation's missing and murdered women is marching through Prince George this summer. Gladys Radek is the organizer of the Walk 4 Justice initiative that has marched from B.C.

If Yozzen Cuesta, the Cuban baseball player who defected from the World Baseball Challenge in Prince George on Wednesday, makes it to the United States he'll be warmly received by at least one person south of the border.

Despite catching 20 to 30 salmon every time he went out on the Fraser River so far this season, Robert Gagnon had to bring his nets in for the last time this season on Thursday morning.

The city is reaching out for more funding support to complete the recently revealed design for the Civic Plaza.

Volcanologist Catherine Hickson is at Wells Gray Park this weekend to lead a workshop on the volcanic history of the Clearwater Valley. The event begins Friday at 7 p.m. with an introductory talk on volcanic process. On Saturday at 9 a.m.