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There was a coal train derailed just outside of Fort Fraser at about 5:30 Saturday night. There were 36 cars that went off the track and CN Rail officials say there is no environmental damage.

No First Nations have signed onto Enbridge Inc.'s ownership offer on its proposed $5.5-billion Northern Gateway oil pipeline, but the company is working to get the offer out to 40 eligible First Nations within weeks.

Criticizing the B.C. Liberal government for bringing in sweeping forestry reforms, NDP leadership candidate Harry Lali said Friday he would roll back some of those changes.

February 10 Ian Vernon Cooper was sentenced to one year probation with a suspended sentence for three counts of theft $5,000 or under, two committed in Prince George and one in Terrace, and to one day in jail for possession of a controlled substance,

Prince George RCMP are advising that counterfeit $50 and $20 bills have popped up at fast food restaurants and grocery stores as recently as Friday.

The owner-operator of a privately-run shuttle service will be able to use the bus lane at Heather Park Elementary School after all.

RCMP helped a logging truck driver avert potential disaster Friday when police tracked down a precariously perched load and safely pulled it over.

A Prince George man sentenced to two years in jail after police found a loaded semi-automatic hand gun and $60,000 cash in his vehicle has been acquitted on appeal because the arresting officer checked pictures on the man's camera. B.C.

Highway 97 South has been reduced to single-lane alternating traffic at the Ahbau Creek Bridge, 25 kilometres north of Quesnel as the result of an accident Saturday morning. It should be reopened to two-day traffic by 3:30 p.m.

A local man who was arrested in downtown Prince George in August after police saw him steal a purse from a delivery vehicle has been sentenced to 18 months probation.