Category Archives: News
BC To Get Outside Help In Fighting Wildfires
Nearly 100 out of province wildfire specialists are due in BC today to help control numerous devastating blazes. Teams from Ontario and New Brunswick will be checked for COVID-19 before being assigned...
Jul 05, 2021
Friendship House Prince Rupert Lobby Renovation
Starting today, The Friendship House of Prince Rupert's lobby has now become a more welcoming and efficient space for the thousands of people who regularly walk in their doors. The reception an...
Jul 02, 2021
Gitwangak Church Destroyed By Fire
The church in Gitwangak is a pile of rubble after a fire destroyed it Thursday night. St Paul's Anglican church saw the first attempt on June 27. Calls came into the RCMP in Hazelton shortly after one...
Jul 02, 2021 Jitze Couperus / CC
Prime Minister To Discuss Wildfires With Ministers
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is meeting today with federal ministers to discuss the government's response to wildfires that have devastated the village of Lytton and surrounding First Nation ...
Jul 02, 2021
Witset Water Treatment Shut Down
The recent heat wave has created problems for the water system in Witset. Community officials say the rapid snow melt of a glacier near the community has dirtied the water supply to the point w...
Jul 02, 2021
Heat Related Deaths Spurs Emergency Program Act Revision
B-C's public safety minister says a rewriting of the Emergency Program Act involving wildfires, floods and even COVID-19 will now include heat waves in order to help prevent deaths related to extreme ...
Jul 02, 2021
Wildfire Evacuation Help for Livestock
The Agriculture Ministry is urging ranchers and livestock operators to register with a program that could help save the lives of animals in wildfire evacuation zones. An unprecedented heat wave...
Jul 02, 2021 BLMIdaho / CC
Lytton Devastated By Wildfire
Residents of Lytton were ordered to evacuate their homes last night due to a wildfire that spread quickly. Mayor Jan Polderman of Lytton issued the order, saying residents and structures were threaten...
Jul 02, 2021 Photo courtesy BC Wildfire Service
A Painful Reminder Removed From Lower Post
June 30th marked an important day for the survivors of a former residential school in Lower Post. 46 years to the day after the school closed in 1975, the Daylu Dena Council held an important gatherin...
Jun 30, 2021 Premier John Horgan, announcing the funding for the new community centre in Lower Post. Source: Province of B.C.
Fast and Furious Update
The identity and details of last Friday's highway 16 high speed chase have been released by RCMP. A black Honda Civic exited a line of stopped traffic and accelerated rapidly toward a police officer t...
Jun 30, 2021