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City council has a light agenda for its first meeting of 2015.

Prince George escaped a warm and dry summer without any major forest-fueled blazes, but those burning in the surrounding areas kept wildfires top of mind as well as smoke at the back of the throat.

Freezing rain, ice-slicked roads and weekend-long weather warnings made for a rough welcome to road conditions in the first few days of the new year. It left vehicles skidding on glistening roads and frozen fingers scraping inch-thick ice off cars.

Boogie with the Stars, which took place at the Civic Centre on New Year's Eve, saw about 300 people attend to raise more than $35,000 for the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation.

The launch of the University of Northern B.C.

There was more going on in education in Prince George in 2014 than just the many headlines surrounding the lengthy strike by public school teachers.

Operation Red Nose had 35 teams on the road on New Year's Eve and made 204 trips to make sure party-goers got a safe ride home within a seven-hour span.

Jack August Simmons made quite a splash when he was born. He arrived in the water-birth tub at University Hospital and he was also the city's first baby of 2015, arriving on the evening of Jan. 1.

The B.C. Vital Statistics Agency released its list of the most popular names for boys and girls born in 2013. There were 42,925 babies born in B.C. in 2013 -22,491 boys and 21,434 girls -according to information released by the agency on Thursday.