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For only the second time in at least a decade, the highest ranking police officers gathered in Prince George for meetings. The B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police (BCACP) encompasses all RCMP and municipal forces.

School board chair Lyn Hall will be keeping a closer eye on his date book after missing a meeting with parents in Mackenzie earlier this week.

A former convict on parole in Prince George is allegedly unlawfully at large. A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for Benny Rae Armstrong, 25, who was residing by court order at St. Patrick's House, a local reintegration facility.

The smoky haze visible in Prince George Thursday, and to a lesser extent today, is from wildfires in Alberta. Quite a bit of smoke has been pushed into central B.C.

A garage sale will be held at the Fraser-Fort George Regional District office on Saturday to raise money to fund the search effort for Madison Scott, the young Vanderhoof woman who went missing May 28.

Wood Wheaton will once again be the site of the B.C. Family Fishing Day event in Prince George this Saturday, and this year's edition is being raised to a new level.

Jobs, Tourism and Innovation Minister Pat Bell is lauding the opening of British Columbia's first cross laminated timber plant Thursday, which he believes could open up a new market as significant as an emerging lumber market in China.

Conifex Timber Inc. has reached an power-purchase agreement with B.C. Hydro that will allow it to build a $50-million bioenergy plant in northern B.C.

A forecast high-wind warning for the Tisigar fire in Northern B.C., the largest in the province, didn't materialize Tuesday evening.

School board chair Lyn Hall will be keeping a closer eye on his date book after missing a meeting with parents in Mackenzie earlier this week.