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Monday morning's snowfall saw city clean-up crews hitting the streets for the first time this season. Sanding and sidewalk clearing equipment were sent out in the morning, said public works director Gina Layte Liston.

A Vanderhoof woman is facing charges in relation to a fatal motor vehicle collision near Fraser Lake earlier this month.

District of Mackenzie mayor Pat Crook is raising the alarm over a BC BC Hydro proposal to increase the amount of water it can draw out of the Williston Reservoir.

For the staff and volunteers at the Crisis Centre for Northern B.C., it's OK to cry over spilled milk.

A telephone scam where the caller claims to be from the Canada Revenue Agency is continuing to separate victims from their money.

Single-family homes will have sold for an average $281,000 by the end of this year, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says in its latest forecast. That represents a 3.5 per cent increase over the $271,581 a home typically went for in 2014.

As the north wrestles with a rapidly aging population, Northern Health has developed a five-year seniors' health action plan to address the growing needs of those over 65. In the next 15 years, that group will see a 78 per cent jump in their numbers.

Backers of the Pacific Trail natural gas pipeline have no plan to follow in another project's footsteps and reroute a portion around an area a First Nations group has been blockading.

Nose inches away from Dr. Seuss' rhymes, Erith Eyahpaise-Springett stumbled over a word before her reading buddy jumped in. "That one says 'would,'" corrected Raquel Pokiak, a Grade 9 Kelly Road secondary student.

Despite the first snowfall of the season, it was a quiet Monday morning for RCMP. Officers were called out to just two motor vehicle incidents, the first at about 5 a.m.