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Operation Red Nose delivered 88 safe rides home during its opening weekend of the holiday season. That's down from 113 during the same weekend last year, which in turn was well down from 131 rides during the campaign's first weekend in 2013.

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The Northern Women's Forum is collecting blankets and winter wear for those in need in the lead up to a rally for reducing poverty and eliminating violence against women. The 13th annual Chili Blanket is set for Saturday from noon to 2 p.m.

While in London, Ontario in 1993 during an aboriginal training program for journalism, Bernard Andreason, 54, got the news he was HIV positive.

The city may be able to piggyback on to a BC Hydro project to get lights along Tyner Boulevard sooner than it hoped. On Monday night, city council will be asked to approve leasing new hydro poles being installed along Tyner for street lighting.

Pine Valley golf course needs work and the city wants to apply for a grant that would help it figure out where to start.

Downsizing to smaller curbside garbage cans could be cheaper in the new year.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a man facing 10 counts of Employment Insurance fraud after he failed to attend a first appearance in Prince George provincial court on the matter.

Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ackerman says her hat will be in the ring to fill Pat Pimm's seat in Victoria. The two-term Fort St. John mayor said Thursday afternoon she would seek the B.C. Liberal party nomination in the Peace River North riding.