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All year long, kids need drivers to be focused on safety in school zones, but especially in the first week of the new school year.

With the competition for participants so high, it's the simplicity of this month's Terry Fox Run which drives its success.

A Calgary-based company is making progress on establishing a geothermal power plant south of Valemount.

A Terrace youth with an alleged penchant for thieving from cars has been arrested by Mounties in Prince George. Allan Douglas Nigh, 20, is a former resident of the Skeena city and now lives in the northern capital.

A man who was alleged to have rammed three police cars with a stolen truck was sentenced to 30 days in jail this week.

After years of woe, things could finally be looking up for the forest industry. Analysts like Russ Taylor and Paul Quinn are using the term "supercycle" to describe to what may lie ahead for the once-beleaguered sector.

Prince George fire fighters will be holding out their boots to raise money in support of Muscular Dystrophy Canada on Sept. 9 and 10. They will be in front of Walmart, any of the four Save on Foods locations, Costco, and Pine Centre Mall from 9 a.m.

The police on highway patrol around the Prince George area urged motorists to keep driving hazards to a minimum during this, the last hurrah of summer.

Drugs, guns and arrests all turned up in a raid on a VLA home this week. Police with a search warrant burst in on a residence in the 2200 block of Norwood Street just before 8 p.m. Thursday.

The forecast for the long weekend is predicting warmer and drier temperatures across the region, so the Prince George Fire Centre is reminding the public, especially campers to be extra cautious with fires this weekend.