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Beginning in February, the YMCA of Northern BC will offer child care services in Fort St. James. The YMCA and Nechako Valley Community Services Society (NVCSS) have partnered to meet the demands in Fort St. James at 349 Stuart Drive West.

Four years after it was first opened, Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipelines is closing down its office at Parkwood Place at the end of this month, but will be seeking new digs in the city in 2017, a company official said Tuesday.

Construction work will reduced Highway 16 to single-lane alternating seven kilometres west of the junction with Highway 97, starting Wednesday. The work will occur on weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and will last until Dec.

A section of the Pine Pass just south of Powder King re-opened Tuesday night more than eight hours after commercial vehicle hauling an explosive substance rolled into a ditch. From about noon until 9 p.m.

The Salmon River Bridge will be closed for eight hours between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. this Saturday to Sunday to allow the structure to be moved from its present alignment and provide a detour while the new bridge is being constructed.

The Prince George RCMP are requesting the public's help in locating a person that has not been seen since late last month.

Since last year's inaugural Inspiring Women Among Us, more people have jumped on board, bumping up the number of events to 40 tucked into the two-week celebration, up from about 25 last year.

A Prince George man was sentenced Monday to 14 months in jail followed by three years probation for possession of child pornography.

Court cases against two people implicated in a murder on the Nak'azdli reserve nearly four years ago will proceed separately after one of the accused confirmed Monday he has changed lawyers.

The Prince George RCMP said Tuesday afternoon a man who hadn't been seen in a week has been found. Police thanked people who helped locate Orlando James Egnell, who previously lived in the Fort Ware-Tsay Keh Dene area.