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It's never been more important to live it up for the Blue Jays.

At least 27 elective surgeries have been cancelled in the last two months, leaving operating rooms empty at the University Hospital of Northern B.C., according to numbers compiled by the B.C. Nurses Union.

The Canadian Press has prepared an interactive graphic that readers can use to view election winners based on party, gender or province. https://thecanadianpress-a.akamaihd.net/graphics/2015/federal-election/winners-breakdown/iframe.html

A Prince George man is facing 10 charges after Mackenzie RCMP allegedly found drugs and weapons in his vehicle when it was pulled over on Thursday.

There was a sense that strategy had been executed locally, but no one at the New Democratic Party's election get-together Monday night in Prince George could shake the cloud of national defeat.

A Conservative stronghold-turned-swing-riding still brought out the blue in voters Monday night to elect Todd Doherty to Cariboo-Prince George. Doherty secured a narrow lead in the riding, which outgoing MP Dick Harris held for 22 years.

It was a bittersweet night for Liberal candidates Tracy Calogheros and Matt Shaw as they both lost their bids to become MPs but also witnessed a surprise majority government for their party.

Monday night was bittersweet for Skeena-Bulkley Valley incumbent Nathan Cullen.

Voters in northeast B.C. have handed Bob Zimmer another term in office - one he'll be serving on the Opposition benches.

Though not eligible to vote, northern B.C. students have gone with a red/blue split for the two Prince George-area ridings. Nearly 3,000 student ballots from 37 schools in the Cariboo-Prince George riding - including D.P.