Category Archives: News
Coastal GasLink investigates pipeline clearing incidents
Coastal GasLink has temporarily suspended clearing work on part of its pipeline route in northwest B.C. The company says an internal audit revealed that Archaeological Impact Assessments (AIA) were no...
Aug 02, 2019
Gitsegukla issue advisory for fentanyl-laced pot
A northwest B.C. First Nation is sounding the alarm about potentially deadly drugs in the community. The Gitsegukla Band Office issued an alert after it says two community members consumed marijuana l...
Aug 02, 2019
UNBC to commission new Indigenous art installation
The University of Northern BC is looking for Indigenous art to welcome people to its Prince George Campus. UNBC has put out a call to Indigenous, B.C.-based artists for a permanent, public art install...
Aug 01, 2019
Northern B.C. mayors call on Ottawa for forestry aid
Smithers Mayor Taylor Bachrach and 20 other northern B.C. municipal leaders want federal help with the forestry downturn affecting their communities. They've sent a letter to Ottawa urging the federal...
Aug 01, 2019 (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward)
Dawson Creek RCMP still working a 45-year-old missing persons case
Dawson Creek RCMP are still trying to get to the bottom of a 45-year-old missing persons case. Murphy Williams was last seen at 3 a.m. on August 15th, 1974. Williams had been working for two days at a...
Aug 01, 2019
Haida director's film selected by Toronto International Film Festival
Christopher Auchter's first documentary with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will have a major debut. The Haida director's short film Now Is The Time has been selected at the prestigious Toron...
Aug 01, 2019
Sinclar announces temporary mill downtime
The cuts keep coming for B.C.'s beleaguered forestry industry. Sinclar Group Forest Products has announced a two-week curtailment for its operations in Prince George, Vanderhoof, and Fort St. James be...
Aug 01, 2019
Close call for driver near Terrace
Terrace RCMP were called out to a single vehicle crash Tuesday night. Mounties say a report of a car in the ditch along Substation Ave near Highway 37 came in shortly before 11:00. Witnesses say the d...
Jul 31, 2019
Regional Food Hub announced for Quesnel
The B.C. government has announced up to a half a million dollars to develop a regional food hub in the Cariboo. A food hub is a centralized shared-use processing facility for food and beverages. The i...
Jul 31, 2019
Cullen calls on feds for forestry aid
Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen is joining a chorus of B.C. mayors calling on federal help for the struggling forest sector. Curtailments and closures at a number of northern B.C. sawmills have...
Jul 31, 2019