Category Archives: News
Ottawa announces $13.1 million for Stewart port
The federal government is pumping $13.1 million into a northwest B.C. port. The Stewart World Port will use the money to install bulk loading conveyor systems and power and control facilities. The upg...
Aug 06, 2019
Williams Lake RCMP investigate homicide
Williams Lake RCMP are investigating a homicide. Police were called out at 12:47 Tuesday morning for a report of shots fired int he 1100 block of Mackenzie Avenue. Officers found an injured male in th...
Aug 06, 2019
CRD announces new Forest Grove fire chief
Shannon Wagner is the new fire chief for the Forest Grove volunteer fire department. Chief Wagner was elected by fire department members and appointed to a three-year term by the Cariboo Regional Dist...
Aug 06, 2019
District 82 superintendent to take one-year position with ed ministry
The embattled superintendent of the Coast Mountains School District will be working with the provincial government next year. The District 82 board has announced that Katherine McIntosh has been secon...
Aug 06, 2019
RCMP investigating attempted abduction of highway flagger
RCMP are investigating after someone tried to kidnap a female flagger in northeastern B.C. Fort St John Mounties say the woman was working on Highway 29 approximately 27 kms southwest of Charlie Lake ...
Aug 05, 2019
Heat warning continued for Terrace, Kitimat
Environment Canada has continued a heat warning for inland sections of the North Coast. The warning, first issued Sunday morning, says a prolonged period of extreme heat is expected to hang around Ter...
Aug 04, 2019
Highway 97 crash kills one, seriously injures two
RCMP are investigating a two-vehicle crash in the Cariboo that killed one person and sent two people to hospital. Mounties were called out just before 1:00 p.m. Friday to a stretch of Highway 97 near ...
Aug 03, 2019
RCMP investigating after woman hit by truck
Clinton RCMP are investigating after a pedestrian was hit on Highway 97 at 70 Mile House. Police and emergency crews were called out at about 4 p.m. Thursday, August 1 after a woman was struck by a tr...
Aug 02, 2019
Crash closes Highway 97 south of Quesnel
Highway 97 is closed in both directions between Williams Lake and Quesnel. Few details are available, but the transportation ministry says a multi-vehicle incident has shut down a five kilometre secti...
Aug 02, 2019
Enbridge pipeline blast haunts B.C. First Nation
A northern B.C. First Nation says news of a fatal gas pipeline explosion in Kentucky has brought back dark memories of its own close call. Lheidli T'enneh Chief Clay Pountney says the thoughts of his ...
Aug 02, 2019 (Photo Jeff Miller/Twitter)