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In a bid to douse their smouldering tobacco habits, more and more northern B.C. residents are reaching for the phone to dial 811.

A Blackburn resident thought it odd that a pair of young men would be driving around the rural Prince George neighbourhood with war veteran license plates. Odder still was observing the two strangers pull up to a house and peer in the window.

Northwest B.C. MP Nathan Cullen responded with some sharp words of his own Monday to federal Environment Minister Joe Oliver damning "radical" environmentalists opposed to Canadian resource development.

Performers and eager audiences have a new reason to head downtown on Wednesday nights. Starting this week on Jan. 11 and continuing every other Wednesday, an open mic night will take over the stage at Nancy O's. Beginning at 8 p.m.

Rose Perrin says expectant mothers should not be fooled, there is no such thing as painless labour.

After targeting a neighbouring constituency in November, an advocacy group calling for reforms to the province's electoral financing laws will be sending postcards in the next week or so promoting its cause to voters in Prince George-Mackenzie.

Firefighters rushed to put out a new fire at the Meadowbrook Apartments on Friday afternoon. They did not find the fourth suspicious fire there in recent weeks, however.

It's not the first time it's happened to me and it probably won't be the last.

Prohibited weapons and drugs were found by police during a raid on a Redwood Street home.

Dr. Gwynne Dyer's delayed northern B.C. November speaking is back on in the new year. The world-renowned international affairs expert returns to Prince George Friday, Feb. 10 to lecture on the Arab Spring and recent developments in the MIddle East.