Category Archives: News
First Nations Health Authority Hosting Engagements with Urban and Away from Home First Nations Populations
First Nations residents living in urban areas and away from their home communities are being asked to participate in an upcoming engagement. Representatives from the First Nations Health Authority wil...
Mar 06, 2023
Province Seeking Feedback on Watershed Security Strategy Intentions Paper Co-Developed with First Nations
Feedback is being sought on a new intentions paper as the province continues work to develop a Watershed Security Strategy. Co-developed alongside the BC First Nations Water Table, the paper outlines ...
Mar 06, 2023
Pedestrian Sent to Hospital with Serious Injuries After Being Struck by Impaired Driver in Prince Rupert
A pedestrian is in hospital with serious injuries after being struck by an impaired driver in Prince Rupert over the weekend. RCMP were called out to McBride Street at around 1:30 Saturday morning for...
Mar 06, 2023
RCMP Officer Bitten by Dog While Breaking Up a Fight in a Fort St John Parking Lot
One RCMP officer was sent to hospital last week after being bitten by a dog while attempting to break up a fight in a Fort St John parking lot. Police were called out to the lot on the 10600 block of ...
Mar 03, 2023
Adastra Labs Rescinds Statement, Clarifies That License Amendment Only Allows Cocaine Sales to Other License Holders
Adastra Labs is retracting comments made in a February news release implying they had recieved approval to distribute cocaine. Last month, Health Canada approved an amendment to the Langley-based cann...
Mar 03, 2023
Ottawa Invests $2 billion Over 10 Years to Address Gaps in Health Care Services in Indigenous Communities
Fresh Federal funding is on the way to help reduce emergency wait times and improve access to primary care in Indigenous communities. An investment of $2 billion over the next 10 years aims to address...
Mar 03, 2023
Bella Coola RCMP Team Up With Local Volunteers to Clean Up the Community... in a More Literal Sense
RCMP teamed up with the Bella Coola Support Society yesterday to help clean up the community... in a more literal sense. Officers and volunteers helped to fill two police vehicles and two of the Socie...
Mar 03, 2023
Avalanche Risks Back Up to Considerable Levels Across the North, One Day After BC's Sixth Deadly Slide Since November
After a brief break, avalanche risks across most of the North are back to considerable levels. Deep storm slabs created over the past few weeks remain reactive, in addition to a weak lower snowpack st...
Mar 03, 2023
Province Announces Exactly How Much of their New $1 Billion Infrastructure Fund Each Community Will Get
We now know just how much each community will receive from the Province's new Growing Communities Fund. Announced last month, that fund will provide a one-time total of $1 billion to be split between ...
Mar 03, 2023
Terrace sees little community feedback amid highest tax increase to date
The City of Terrace received only 26 responses to their recent 2023 budget consultation survey while a property tax of over 10 per cent is being considered. This represents a very small sample size of...
Mar 03, 2023