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Protecting children against childhood illness and ensuring they have a healthy future is the focus of the 15th annual Health Day Circuit for local kindergarten students.

Police are looking for witnesses after a vehicle was deliberately set on fire last week. Fire fighters were called to the scene of a blaze at about 6 a.m. Thursday morning in an alley off Milburn Avenue between Quince and Pine Streets.

A 47-year-old man from the southern interior has been arrested by Prince George RCMPmembers following two separate armed robberies in the city Monday night.

Yesterday's deluge of snow will be followed by some rain today as the temperature rises to slightly above freezing.

The suspect in a pair of armed robberies overnight has been caught by Prince George police. The suspect, a 47-year-old man, is not from this area. Police said he was a resident of the Southern Interior. The first incident on Monday was the 7:30 p.m.

Tips from residents in Quesnel have led to the arrest of a man in Ontario. Wanted on a series of outstanding Canada-wide warrants, William Kristopher Littlejohn, 27, was apprehended in Sarnia earlier this week, Quesnel RCMP Cst.

B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Kevin Falcon's call for a merit-based pay system in the province's public schools is getting short-shrift from Prince George and District Teachers Association vice president Matt Pearce.

Three schools are closed as as many as 1,900 customers in the west bowl area were without power when an outage struck shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday. Foothills and Heritage elementary schools and D.P.

Three schools in the west bowl will remain closed for the day due to a power outage. Foothills and Heritage elementary schools and D.P.

Three Prince George schools are closed this morning due to a power outage - Foothills elementary, Heritage elementary and D.P. Todd Secondary. It is anticipated they will re-open at noon today., the school district said.