Category Archives: News
Six Northern Communities Among Those Benefiting From Fresh Provincial Heat Preparation Funding
Six projects in the North are among 36 across BC benefiting from $1.9 million in extreme heat preparation funding. Each of the projects seek to stem the impacts of climate change on local and First Na...
Sep 15, 2022
BC Hydro Planning Power Outage for Burns Lake and Surrounding Area, Impacting 3,600 Residents
BC Hydro is planning a power outage for Burns Lake and the surrounding area between midnight tonight and 4:00 tomorrow morning. They say the outage is necessary to perform work on their equipment in t...
Sep 15, 2022
Federal Indigenous Leaders Among Those Travelling to London For Queen's Funeral on Monday
Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald will be among a slew of Canadian leaders travelling to London for the Queen's funeral on Monday. Archibald will be joined by Mtis National C...
Sep 15, 2022 Photo from the Royal Family's Twitter Account
Fort St John RCMP Investigating Arson Near North Peace Secondary School
Fort St John RCMP have launched an arson investigation into a suspicious vehicle fire from last weekend. At around 11:00 Sunday morning, police were called on to assist fire crews with a vehicle fire ...
Sep 15, 2022
More than Two Thirds of Hudson's Hope Residents Now Safely Evacuated as Battleship Mountain Fire Approaches 30,000 Hectares
More than two thirds of Hudson's Hope residents have now registered with Emergency BC after the province's largest active fire forced their evacuation. Most of the District's roughly 900 residents hav...
Sep 15, 2022
Prince George RCMP able to find suspected car thief not long after he fled the vehicle
In the early evening this past Tuesday, Prince George RCMP frontline officers, an RCMP helicopter and other subsections of the police were searching for a suspect seen fleeing from a recently stolen v...
Sep 15, 2022
Cindy Blackstock Calls for Human Rights Tribunal to Renegotiate Compensation Deal for First Nations Children
Renowned Indigenous rights activist Cindy Blackstock is calling for a deal to compensate First Nations children harmed by Canada's child welfare system to be renegotiated. A $40 billion settlement agr...
Sep 15, 2022
Provincial Government and Northwest BC Resource Benefits Alliance partner up to help northwest and rural BC
A partnership between the Provincial Government and the Northwest BC Resource Benefits Alliance is being created in order to help better understand the needs of northwestern and rural communities. A r...
Sep 15, 2022
Prince George RCMP looking for help to find wanted man
Prince George RCMP are looking to get the help of the public in order to find a wanted man. A 35-year-old man by the name of Tyrone Terris Squinas, is wanted on the charge of assaulting a police offic...
Sep 15, 2022 Photo Courtesy of Prince George RCMP
BC reveals number of people that died in July due to toxic drugs
2022 has now seen the most illicit drug overdose deaths in BC through the first 7 months of any year since the data has been tracked. According to the Coroners' Service's preliminary report, 192 peopl...
Sep 15, 2022