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A team of Transportation Safety Board investigators has been sent to gather evidence from the scene a fatal plane crash about 160 kilometres southwest of Prince George.

Expect delays of up to 20 minutes on Highway 97 today and tomorrow due to maintenance work 15 kilometres south of the city, according to DriveBC. The work is being carried out from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on both days.

The hiker who was reported overdue Monday night has been located and is safe, Prince George RCMP said in a release issued shortly after 11 a.m. Victor Gustafson, 57, had been reported missing at about 10:30 p.m.

The University of Northern B.C. is helping organize two free lectures Wednesday. The first, at 6 p.m., features Patrick Reid Stewart discussing why indigenous place-based knowledge is central to indigenous architecture and design.

Food can be a comfort, a social stimulator, a fuel, but Julie Daniluk constantly shows off how food can also be a healer.

As a teenager Jenny Martin spent hours transcribing the words Nak'azdli elders spoke into old tapes, picking out bits of tradition in pieces of their past as she archived memories.

New requirements for the management and use of biosolid are among the proposals being aired in a policy intentions paper for the provincial government's organic matter recycling regulation.

Charges of uttering threats and mischief have been approved against the 16-year-old boy arrested this week after a "creepy clown" threat was leveled against Prince George schools.

A 20-year-old Prince George man died in hospital after he was hit by a vehicle in Quesnel on Thursday night. RCMP said Mounties were advised at about 8:15 p.m.

The average sale price for a single-family home for the year so far was just under $300,000, although the number of sales has declined, according to third-quarter figures released Friday by the B.C. Northern Real Estate Board.