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It's more than just planes taking off at the airport. According to numbers released by the Prince George Airport Authority, passenger totals were on the upswing for 2011.

The city's homeless shelters have issued a call for donations of warm winter clothing as the winter's first cold snap was worsened by a wind chill that is making frost bite possible within a matter of minutes.

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The cold weather combined with extreme wind chill is packing them into the Ketso Yoh men's homeless shelter. "In the last couple of nights we've had people in the dining area," said Elmer Ghostkeeper, a frontline worker at the shelter.

Two weeks after pleading with authorities for help, Lesley Kerr, a resident of Sunrise Valley Mobile Park, still feeds the family of stray cats who have taken up residence under her trailer.

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A charge of murder against a former Prince George resident has been stayed. Joshua Bredo had faced the charge in the Aug. 3 death of Daniel Levesque in a Victoria condominium.

If the population of a city can be determined by the size of the phone book, then Prince George surely must be shrinking. But that's not really the case, simply because not every number is listed.

Even the prospect of months of hard work ahead of them isn't enough to keep the smiles off the Houston family's faces.

Below is a list of 10 of the largest projects proposed, or already underway, in the North: Site C Dam What: 1,100 megawatt hydroelectric dam and reservoir Developer: B.C. Hydro Location: 7 km southwest of Fort St. John Estimate cost: $7.