RCMP say 12-year-old Dillon Rigby has been found alive and well by a boater on the lake and has been returned to his family.

Mounties, police dogs, search and rescue personnel and conservation officers were searching for the boy who went missing in the Meadow Lake area Wednesday night.

The boy was last seen leaving the cabin where he was staying with family on Greig Lake in Meadow Lake Provincial Park.

Meadow Lake RCMP and conservation officers were called in to assist with locating him at around 8:40 p.m. on Wednesday.