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Prince George-Valemount MLA Shirley Bond reads Robert Munsch's book Smelly Socks during Munsch Mania 3 at the Bob Harkins Branch of the Prince George Public Library to celebrate Family Literacy Day 2015.

Veronica Vandermeulen knows more than most how much can change in a year. In January 2014, her months-old son was losing weight rapidly and fighting for his life despite the pacemaker that kept his heart pumping.

From as early as Simon Brochu can remember, the simplest of tasks were troublesome, even dangerous. At the age of two the seven-year-old's eyes started to shift.

Prince George police are looking for more information after a fatal collision Saturday night. Shortly before 7 p.m. Jan. 24, a 75-year-old man was struck by a vehicle along the 1700 block of Spruce Street.

Professors, librarians and lab instructors at University of Northern B.C. voted 84.8 per cent in favour of a strike mandate.

A Buckhorn-area home is destroyed after a Saturday afternoon fire. The Buckhorn fire hall received the 911 call at about 3 p.m. Jan. 24 and arrived a few minutes later to find the house at 13475 Scott Rd. fully engulfed in flames.

A woman sentenced Thursday for stealing nearly $725,000 may not have received as big a break in her punishment as many might think.

The Wood Innovation and Design Centre filled its last available rooms Friday.

There is still time for the weather to turn for the better as far as the Canada Winter Games is concerned, but if there was going to be a year when some unseasonable warmth would strike during the winter, 2015 was it.

The Prince George Relay for Life was the No. 1 relay in the nation, raising $600,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society during the country's only 24-hour event.