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A passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Prince George Airport on Friday afternoon. With fire fighters, ambulance and police on standby, a Pacific Coastal flight was able to land safely shortly after 2 p.m.

An online fundraising campaign has been launched in the name of a herd of horses at the centre of a fledgling non-profit society and a controversy over the alleged level of care they've been receiving.

Five hundred BC Hydro customers in Prince George had their power restored by early Friday afternoon. BC Hydro sent crews to deal with the Friday morning outage and by 1 p.m. had it fixed.

The driver of a pickup truck died at the scene, North District RCMP said, following a collision with a tractor trailer Thursday night on Highway 16 east of the city.

A broken water main along Third Avenue was repaired Thursday night, nearly eight hours after it burst. The 12-inch pipe at Third and Vancouver spewed water into the street for hours before water was turned off.

The forestry sector can play a key role in creating a sustainable future that makes better use of leftover material, converting it to alternative fuel sources.

A man who shot his 36-year-old son to death during a fishing trip north of Fort St. James has been granted day parole. Jacques Henri Seguin, 69, was sentenced in January to nearly four years in prison for the Aug.

The man who died in cells at the Prince George RCMP detachment was 51-year-old Jamie Wilford Shanoss, the B.C. Coroners Service said Thursday. The civilian-based Independent Investigations Office (IIO) has been called in to investigate the death.

Fake traffic tickets are showing up in local e-mail inboxes, Prince George RCMP is warning.

WorkSafeBC is urging homeowners living in houses built before 1990 to test their homes for asbestos before starting any renovation projects.