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ICBC is offering drivers and parents of trick or treaters to plan ahead for Halloween. There are about 440 crashes every Halloween night between 3 p.m. and midnight injuring 150 people, according to a five-year average covering 2005 to 2009.

The manager of a project in Surrey aimed at keeping youth out of gangs will be speaking at the gang summit and forum on Tuesday.

The B.C. Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General crime prevention coordinator will be among the speakers at the gang crime summit. Jaret Hunter will appear at the break-out session Monday on community assessment action networks.

A routine vehicle road check turned into a surprise haul of crack, meth, coke, pot and guns for Vanderhoof police, at the provincial scales on October 21.

Highway 97 is now a four-lane stretch from Sintich Road to Simon Fraser Bridge. Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Shirley Bond and Cariboo-Prince George MP Dick Harris announced completion of the work on Friday.

As many as 18 witnesses will take the stand over the course of the trial into an alleged leak of a confidential document by city councillor Brian Skakun.

The gang crime summit and forum is sold out. All 200 tickets to the daytime workshops on Monday and Tuesday have been sold and commitments to attend the public forum on Monday evening have reached capacity.

Gang expert says organized crime in P.G. is taking direct hits

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled against the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council over its bid to be consulted on a major power deal with B.C. Hydro. The decision is a win for Rio Tinto Alcan, and overturns a decision of the B.C.

Blood chocolate. In the same spirit as blood diamonds, a local group is trying to turn public tastes away from a common treat made by kidnapped slave children.