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Emergence of fresh evidence suggesting police took too long to administer a breathalyzer has prompted a B.C. Supreme Court Justice to order a new trial for a Prince George man convicted of drunk driving.

On Sunday, regional traffic police pulled over a pickup truck for speeding near Vanderhoof. It was soon revealed that the pickup also contained hundreds of dollars in cash and an estimated $45,000 in packaged marijuana.

On Friday Quesnel RCMP drug section executed a search warrant pursuant to the Controlled Drugs and Substance Act at a residence in the 200 block of Bouchie Street.

City council gave tentative approval of the closure of 10th Avenue between Brunswick Street and Patricia Boulevard.

One phone call dramatically changed the lives of Justin Francoeur and Alicia McQueen.

A feasibility study for turning the old Rustad sawmill into a trade school should begin soon and be completed in about a month's time, Prince George-Mackenzie MLA Pat Bell said Monday.

Justin Francoeur held the winning ticket in this year's Prince George Spruce Kings Show Home Lottery. Francoeur, a 27-year-old local resident, had his name drawn on Sunday at the show home, located in the Aberdeen Glen subdivision.

Matthew Goodine came by his love for helicopters honestly. At a young age he watched his grandfather Leo Gladesdahl take off in a gyrocopter or an airplane he'd built from scratch, and that planted the seed.

Work towards a better picture of the need to convert the old Rustad sawmill into a trade school should begin soon and be completed in about a month's time, Prince George-Mackenzie MLA Pat Bell said Monday.

If Levi Ammundsen was still in school, he'd have one heck of a "What I did on my summer vacation" paper to hand in.