Category Archives: 2018
Government launches BC Hydro Advisory panel
The provincial government has launched the first phase of its comprehensive review in to BC Hydro. Cost control and rate stabilizations are the focus of this phase of the two phase process. An advisor...
CFNRNews Jun 11, 2018
McBride St. watermain project to take 4-6 weeks
The City of Prince Rupert says a major infrastructure project will likely take 4-6 weeks to finish. Crews are starting work Monday on the McBride Street watermain replacement between 6th and 8th Avenu...
CFNRNews Jun 11, 2018
Darfield station oil spill much bigger than initially thought
A small oil spill from last month may not have been as small as initially reported. Reports from the Ministry of Environment initially pinned a spill at the Trans Mountain Pipeline’s Darfield st...
CFNRNews Jun 11, 2018
Additional conservancy land planned near Williams Lake
A fresh donation is hoping to lead to improved land protection to a park east of Williams Lake. The Land Conservancy of BC has donated 61 thousand of the 100 thousand dollars needed to purchase a 4 he...
CFNRNews Jun 11, 2018
UNBC joins social collaboration
The University of Northern British Columbia is one of four schools looking to revamp social infrastructure in BC post secondary schools. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Island University, and BCIT,...
CFNRNews Jun 11, 2018
Community pitches in with search for missing Tumbler Ridge boater
A weekend search for a missing boater in the northeast will continue in to day 3 today. North Peace Search and Rescue have teamed up with Tumbler Ridge teams in the search for a boater who went missin...
CFNRNews Jun 11, 2018
Smithers crash leaves one dead, one injured, another arrested
Smithers RCMP say a Prince George man was killed in a crash late Saturday evening. Police and emergency crews were called to a single vehicle collision on Railway Avenue shortly before 11 p.m. The veh...
CFNRNews Jun 11, 2018
Terrace RCMP bust grow-op
Terrace RCMP say they seized enough marijuana to make over 20,000 joints during a bust in Thornhill Thursday night. Police say a tip from the public led to two warrants at a property near Thornhill St...
CFNRNews Jun 08, 2018
IIO clears RCMP in 2016 Granisle standoff shooting deaths
BC’s independent police watchdog has cleared RCMP in the deaths of a man and his mother during a Northern BC standoff two years ago. The report from the Independent Investigations Office says 73...
CFNRNews Jun 08, 2018
Overdose deaths down in April report
April numbers released by the BC Coroners Service show a 23 percent drop in overdose related deaths. According to the report, 124 deaths were linked to drug overdoses in Aprils, down from a near-recor...
CFNRNews Jun 08, 2018