BC Transit has introduced a contactless fare payment on fixed route buses. Its participating Umo transit systems, making transit more convenient and easier to use. Starting today Tuesday May 19th, riders can tap-to-pay using a debit card, credit card or mobile wallet in all 30 transit systems across the province that o...

Gitxaala Enterprises Corporation held the official grand reopening of Chances Casino in Prince Rupert on Thursday afternoon, the only Indigenous-owned casino in Northern BC. GEC had also unveiled new plans to combine the adjacent Crest Hotel and Convention Centre with the Casino to create a fully integrated resort dest...

Residents of Old Fort will soon have their road access restored. British Columbia's Ministry of Transportation and Transit confirmed that work to build a 2-lane access road across the section of road destroyed by a landslide in late April is expected to being on Friday, May 15th. The Ministry says a section of Old Fort...

The Independent Investigations Office of BC has released it's report reviewing the interactions an RCMP Officer had with a man who later died outside a homeless shelter in Quesnel back in October of 2025. The man who died had not been named in the report, but the IIO says his presence at the shelter that night was a br...

Emergency Department services at the Nats'oojeh Hospital in Fort St. James are once again interrupted due to staffing challenges. It's now the third evening in a row where Emergency Department services have been unavailable overnight in Fort St. James. The latest interruption began at 4:00 P.M today and will last until...