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A loaded gun and a dummy grenade were part of what police found in another takedown associated to the Game Tight Soldiers.

Prince George has just been awarded the 2015 Canada Winter Games. The choice was between Kamloops, Kelowna and Prince George.

Ryan Walter will be the keynote speaker at the Expo 50 Plus, a free travel and lifestyle show sponsored by the Prince George Citizen and the Commonwealth Mortgage Corporation and Commonwealth Benefits Corporation to be held at the Civic Centre on Sun

The call is out for nominations for The BC Cancer Agency's 2010 Community Care Award. Residents are asked to nominate an exceptional cancer caregiver who has gone above and beyond the call of duty in providing support to cancer patients.

Prince George women will take to the streets Sept. 24 to protest violence against women. Take Back the Night is an annual event where women reclaiming their right to be able to walk alone at night, without the need of a male companion.

Being old and being poor is a lousy combination, said the president of Commonwealth Mortgage Corporation and Commonwealth Benefits Corporation.

An annual parade of motorcycles throughout the west sector of Prince George takes place Sept. 26, beginning at noon at CN Centre.

When Prince George RCMP attended a reported incident Sept. 16 of a man threatening another male with a knife at Fifth Avenue and Watrous Street, both men had left the area. But a witness told police the man with the knife had just left on a city bus.

The Canada Winter Games packed a huge economic wallop when they were held in Whitehorse, Yukon in 2007, according to estimates from the Canadian Sport Tourism Association. The event contributed $75.

Even getting a chance to bid on the hosting a Canada Games - summer or winter - doesn't come around very often.