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Eligible clients can now receive up to double the amount of family-related legal advice through an over-the-phone service offered by the provincial government.

Winter tires are now required on many highways across the province. Until March 31, passenger vehicles traveling almost all highways in northern B.C. will need tires rated for at least "mud and snow," marked with M+S on the sidewall.

Debby Ethier was the winner of the second early-bird prize in the Hospice Society's Dream Home Lottery.

The College of New Caledonia's board of governors will consider a two-per-cent increase to tuition at its next board meeting. The board, which received a motion from the college for the increase on Friday, will make a decision on Nov. 28.

A new program is underway in the Prince George region to foster innovation in the north, especially for the north.

Two UNBC professors and an alumnus collaborated for a recently published book entitled Mental Illness in the Workplace.

A Burns Lake woman was "heavily intoxicated with alcohol" when her vehicle slammed into a fully-loaded tractor-trailer on a snow-covered Highway 16 last winter, a coroner has said. Leigh St. Jean, 43, died at the scene on Nov. 20, 2013.

There is still roughly $980,000 still to be raised to fully fund the 2015 Canada Winter Games, and organizers said they're not focused on meeting that number, but exceeding it.

The Prince George RCMP are requesting the public's help in locating a missing youth. Aaron Myles Mickey, 17, left his home on Wed. Sept. 17 and has not returned.

A 36-year-old man died in hospital after he was struck by a vehicle while crossing First Avenue near Dominion Street on Sunday night, Prince George RCMP said.