Category Archives: News

A book titled Shared Histories, which highlights the early relationship between Smithers and the Witsuwit’en Nation will be released this weekend. Author Tyler McCreary has spent the last 3 year...

Work towards a planned expanded recycling depot in Quesnel began today. Contamination rates in the City’s existing drop off locations have measured too high to create marketable products, theref...

The family of a missing teenager in Smithers are asking for the public to come forward with any information. 19 year-old Jessica Patrick has not been seen since Friday morning and has been reported mi...

Recent rainy conditions have not had the effect that firecrews working on the Verdun and Island Lake wildfires had hoped for. Spotty percipitation means there is still an abundance of fuels left dry f...

Election season officially kicked off yesterday for those seeking municipal government positions in BC. Hopefuls have until September 14th to submit nomination papers for mayoral, municipal council, o...

BC’s leading sasquatch hunter has had his dreams crushed by the BC Supreme Court. Todd Standing has spent years researching and hunting the mythical creature, an endeavour which led him to sue t...

An evacuation alert that had been in effect for the area around the Cheslatta Lake wildfire has been fully rescinded. There is still an evacuation order effecting the area west of Holy Cross Lake. The...

The Nisga’a Lisims Government has lifted its campfire ban. The NLG put the prohibition in place July 26th because tinder dry conditions in Nisga’a territory. Officials are reminding people...

Higher standards are the focus of new BC building code changes slated for the end of the year. Most of the changes are to make buildings more accessible to those with disabilities, helping to hold BC&...

With Fort St. James now no longer under evacuation alert from the Shovel Lake wildfire, things are getting back to normal. Northern Health says it plans to repatriate patients who were moved from Fort...