Category Archives: News
Birds Canada Seeking Volunteers to Help Count Long-Billed Curlew Near Prince George
Birds Canada is looking for bird watchers... and listeners in the Prince George area. They are looking to conduct the first population count of the long-billed curlew in nearly two decades. As the lar...
May 03, 2022
Number of Illicit Drug Overdose Deaths Drops in May; Still Above 150 for 18th Straight Month
For the second month in a row, BC saw a decrease in the number of lives lost to illicit drug overdoses in March. But, with a total of 165 toxic overdose deaths across the month, it is also the 18th st...
May 03, 2022
Two New Parcels of Land Transferred to Haisla Nation's Kitamaat Reserve No. 2
Two new parcels of land have been added to Kitamaat Reserve No. 2 on Haisla Nation territory. In total, the parcels will add just over 297 acres of land to the reserve through a transfer which was ori...
May 03, 2022
Prince George RCMP Seize 800 Grams of Suspected Fentanyl During Drug Trafficking Sting
Police have seized enough fentanyl to supply more than 8,000 doses as part of a drug trafficking investigation in Prince George. RCMP have executed search warrants at two residences over the past mont...
May 03, 2022
More traffic lights potentially coming to Quesnel
According to the Cariboo Regional District's director for Electoral Area A, Mary Sjostrom, another road in the Quesnel area may be getting new traffic lights. This proposition comes about a year after...
May 03, 2022
Kitimat Councillors Give First Three Readings to 2022 Tax Rates Bylaw
Kitimat Councillors have given three readings to the District's 2022 tax rates bylaw. In a separate vote early last month, council opted to keep the District's residential flat tax, which comes in at ...
May 03, 2022
CNC Research Forest Society Supports Two Projects Focused on Environmental Improvements and Restoration
Two projects have been selected to split $100,000 through the College of New Caledonia Research Forest Society's Legacy Fund. Since 2019, the College has provided support for projects within their com...
May 03, 2022
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and MP Taylor Bachrach Discuss Proposal to Lower Voting Age to 16
Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Taylor Bachrach was joined by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh today to re-assert his proposal to lower Canada's voting age. Last December, Bachrach tabled a private members' bill whi...
May 03, 2022
Kitimat Housing Project Looks to Regain Development Permit After Covid Forced Cancellation
A development project looking to bring more housing to Kitimat is making a comeback after being thwarted by Covid. In 2019, a development permit was issued to bring a 35 unit residential development t...
May 03, 2022
BC Wildfire Service starting annual Wildfire training
With Wildfire season coming quick, the BC Wildfire Service is welcoming back their seasonal staff and will start up their annual training in the next few weeks. Training in the Bulkley Fire Zone will ...
May 02, 2022