Category Archives: News
Release of Results in to St Joseph's Mission Residential School Investigation Postponed Until New Year
A press conference set for this Friday to unveil the results of an investigation in to a Williams Lake Residential School has been postponed. Initially, the Williams Lake First Nation had planned to r...
Dec 08, 2021
Fatal Collision Involving Pedestrian Closes Highway 97 North of Hixon
Highway 97 remains closed roughly halfway between Quesnel and Prince George as RCMP investigate a fatal collision. Police believe that the incident, which ultimately claimed the life of a pedestrian, ...
Dec 08, 2021
Quesnel Airport to Continue Waiving Passenger Fees Through March
Passenger fees at the Quesnel Airport will continue to be waived until at least next March. City Council voted yesterday to extend the program, which had been put in place last year due to Covid. But,...
Dec 08, 2021
Williams Lake supporting Businesses and Recreation With Remainder of Covid Restart Funds
Williams Lake has announced its plans for the just under 150 thousand dollars remaining in its Covid Safe Restart Grant Funding. Twenty non-profit groups in the City will be able to apply for up to 1,...
Dec 08, 2021
Schizophrenia Ruling Clears Man of Criminal Responsibility in Fatal 2018 Quesnel Stabbing
A BC Supreme Court ruling from Monday has found a man not criminally responsible for a fatal 2018 stabbing. In July of 2018, Kristopher Edward Leclair turned himself in to RCMP following the double st...
Dec 08, 2021
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Postpones Papal Visit Over Omicron Concerns
Just one day after the Assembly of First Nations announced they were baking out of a trip to the Vatican, the rest of the delegation has followed suit. Due to concerns over the emergence of the Omicro...
Dec 08, 2021
New Collaboration Could Grant Access to New Internationally-Held Residential School Records
New residential school records will soon be made available thanks to an international collaboration. That collaboration will give the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation full access to reside...
Dec 08, 2021
December 8th Covid-19 Update
British Columbia is reporting 326 new cases of Covid-19, as of last night. That brings the total number of active cases in the province to 2,814, with 82 in ICU. Of the new cases, 22 come from Norther...
Dec 08, 2021
Progress being made on opening BC's Transportation routes
BC's Transportation Minister, Rob Fleming, has put out a statement saying that there has been progress made in reopening some of BC's Transportation routes, which were damaged by November's big time f...
Dec 07, 2021
Covid and Extreme Weather Lead to More Surgical Postponements
A combination of Covid and extreme weather events led to another week of surgical postponements in BC. In total, 219 non-urgent surgeries were postponed last week, with 88 in Interior Health, and in t...
Dec 07, 2021 Health Minister Adrian Dix