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The family members of Indigenous women and girls who have gone missing or been murdered along the Highway of Tears in northern B.C. cried and held hands as a monument created in their honour was unveiled at Cottonwood Island Park in Prince George Friday morning. Called the Pillar of Hope, the monument commemorates the string of disappearances and murders of Indigenous women and girls along the 720-kilometre stretch of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert dating back to the 1960s. "It's a bittersweet moment," said Mary Teegee, executive director of Carrier Sekani Family Services, which led the project.

A Prince George man was pulled over by police after driving a child-size pink toy Barbie Jeep along one of the main roads in the north-central B.C. city on Sept. 5. And on a day that included a hit-and-run involving an ambulance and a prominent downtown business being destroyed by fire, photos and video of the Barbie Jeep quickly spread online with a mixture of humour and disbelief. Photos captured by several witnesses show Kasper Lincoln wearing aviator sunglasses and cruising down 15th Avenue near Nicholson Street — one of the main thoroughfares.

An archaeological field school at a national historic site near Fort St. John, B.C., is offering a look into 12,500 years of First Nations history, finding pieces of ancient stone tools and animal bones. Tse'k'wa is owned by Doig River, Prophet River, and West Moberly First Nations, whose Dane-zaa ancestors inhabited the site for generations. "It's an ancient site, an ancient archeological site. It really proves to us, to me, that we've been here," said West Moberly Elder Laura Webb.