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Legal consumption of alcohol and going to a disco with a bunch of girls her own age were foreign concepts to Jackie Toombs when she arrived in Emden, Germany, last month as part of a Rotary Club exchange.

There are more trees in the forest than thought and those extras will help local sawmills get through the industry downturn brought on by the mountain pine beetle epidemic, a government committee says.

Come for the food, leave with a trout. It's not the official motto of Summerfest, which is set to take over downtown on Sunday, but the annual Prince George Downtown Business Improvement Association celebration allows you to do just that.

A 17-year-old Prince George youth was pronounced dead at the scene of a fiery crash on the Nazko Highway near Quesnel early Thursday morning. And a 19-year-old Quesnel resident was arrested and faces charge of impaired driving causing death.

The College of New Caledonia has turned puzzle pieces into a pearly white promotion.

Vendors are divided about the new home of the Prince George Farmers' Market. The market has signed a five-year lease to operate out of a building on Sixth Avenue, behind the Keg, beginning this fall.

A sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl in Cluculz Lake more than two years ago has led to a six-month jail term for 37-year-old man.

The sawdust from green wood is just as likely to ignite as the sawdust from dead pine beetle trees, according to WorkSafeBC officials investigating the fatal explosions and fires at Babine Forest Products and Lakeland Mills.

With the move to a bylaw adjudication system in Valemount, the village is taking another step towards making its community rules relevant for residents. "Right now we're not doing a lot of bylaw enforcement," said Mayor Andru McCracken.

Traffic is down to single-lane alternating at two locations along Highway 97 near Hixon according to the Ministry of Transportation. The sites are at 2.8 km south of the community, where roadwork is ongoing, and 1.