Category Archives: News
Multiple Events Taking Place in Terrace Tomorrow in Honour of Red Dress Day
Tomorrow is Red Dress Day, and residents of the Terrace area have a few ways to honour the day. There will be three events taking place in Terrace, each hosted by the Tears to Hope Society. In the mor...
May 04, 2022
Quesnel Selected to Host 32nd Minerals North Conference and Trade Show
Quesnel has been selected to host the first Minerals North Conference and Trade Show since 2019. It will be the 32nd edition of the usually annual conference, which has not been held in three years du...
May 03, 2022
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