Category Archives: News
Kitimat RCMP arrest three youth after possible threat to school
Kitimat RCMP arrested three youth in connection with a possible threat at a local school. Staff at Mount Elizabeth Secondary School called police Monday morning to investigate images on social media s...
Apr 8, 2019
Dawson Creek RCMP investigating attempted murder
Dawson Creek RCMP say they are investigating an attempted murder. Police were called out Sunday morning to a home on 13A Avenue, but say people at the residence did not cooperate with police. Mounties...
Apr 8, 2019
NKDF funds Southside wildfire preparation
A community group formed in the wake of last year's devastating wildfires around Francois Lake will get some financial help their efforts. Chinook Emergency Response Society has been awarded $30,000 f...
Apr 8, 2019
Alberta-based bus service expanding to Peace Region
Cross-border bus service is on the way for residents of the Peace Region. Cold Shot Bus Lines, an Alberta service, is expanding in an attempt to fill the gap left by Greyhound in the region. Residents...
Apr 8, 2019
Northern residents get 4 chances to provide feedback on caribou conservation agreements
Northerners will have 4 chances to provide feedback on two proposed caribou conservation agreements this week. Both of the agreements in question seek to help preserve southern mountain caribou popula...
Apr 8, 2019
Kitimat hoping for Terrace's support in bid to host Minerals North
Kitimat is hoping for the support of the City of Terrace in their quest to host a major industrial conference. Kitimat's Chamber of Commerce is pairing with the Kitimat Economic Development Associatio...
Apr 8, 2019
Prince George company charged $87,500 after 2015 death of Saskatchewan employee
Prince George-based Carrier Forest Products is being charged nearly 90 thousand dollars following the death of a worker in 2015. That incident saw a worker hit by an object thrown from a wood chipper ...
Apr 8, 2019
Country-wide salmonella outbreak hits BC hardest
A country wide salmonella outbreak has hit BC the hardest. According the the Public Health Agency, there have been 63 cases linked with the infection recently, with 23 in BC alone. Infections first hi...
Apr 8, 2019
Human caused fire in McLeese Lake prompts message from fire crews
It's time to stop setting grassfires, according to the McLeese Lake Volunteer Fire Department. That stern message comes after the department responded to one such fire north of Duckworth Lake and east...
Apr 8, 2019
Grasslands restoration burns taking place in Cariboo-Chilcotin this month
BC Wildfire crews will be conducting six prescribed burns across the Cariboo-Chilcotin over the course of the next month. With the goal of restoring natural grassland ecosystems, the burns will be ove...
Apr 8, 2019