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After two months of virtual emptiness in July and August, bike racks around Prince George schools are full again as kids take advantage of the last few weeks of summer-like weather.

Chasing cows, penning sheep, riding horses and rounding up livestock was as much a part of the Cariboo gold rush as prospecting and claim staking.

Citizen photo by Brent Braaten Cole Kozicki,4, gets some words of encouragement from dad, Quentin, on his first day of Kindergarten at Harwin elementary.

She feels like a drunken sailor walking down the street. That's the worst part of having Parkinson's disease for 88-year-old Connie Buchanan. "The sidewalk needs to be about three feet wider as I lurch down the street with my cane," said Buchanan.

Defence lawyer Tony Zipp grilled a Prince George RCMP officer about his decision to enter a residence without a warrant as a sexual assault trail entered its second day on Wednesday in B.C. Supreme Court.

There is no job action this school year for teachers, but the hangover of Bill 22 legislation that produced a forced province-wide contract settlement in June remains.

The effects of fracking on the underground fault lines of northern B.C. will be put under the microscope by Geoscience BC.

The Ministry of Education is promising curriculum changes that will steer student brains away from memory work and a heavy workload of predetermined learning outcomes and instead engage classrooms in more critical-thinking processes and personalized

Northern Health is challenging local residents to eat better, be more active and engage in less risky behaviour.

The provincial government announced funding Thursday for 15 primary care paramedic education positions in Prince George, though the Justice Institute of British Columbia.