election 2024
Independent candidate Coralee Oakes campaign different than most
PRINCE GEORGE - The provincial election is down to its final days and candidates are making their final pitches to voters. In the riding of Prince George-North Cariboo, independent candidate and three term incumbent Coralee Oakes has had a different campaign than in years past, but is looking at the campaign in a new l...
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Parking
Parking changes near UHNBC go into effect on Wednesday
PRINCE GEORGE - Parking regulations in the Hospital Zone near the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia (UHNBC) will undergo changes as part of a strategy to address on-street parking challenges starting Wednesday.As part of the proposed changes, two-hour free parking will remain in areas immediately surroun...
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CKPG Today Y Day Friday
Improve your spine health with these stretches
Have a tight back? It may be time to start stretching it a bit more! We look at spine health and how you can try and improve your own on this edition of Fridays with the YMCA.
Oct 11, 2024
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CKPG Today Entertainment
A look in the archives at the Central BC Railway and Forestry Museum
Get your chance to look in the archives at the Central BC Railway and Forestry Museum this weekend as the museum hosts their 'Out of the Archives' event! Learn more about it on the show!
Oct 11, 2024
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election 2024
Independent candidate Coralee Oakes campaign different than most
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Parking changes near UHNBC go into effect on Wednesday
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TURNOUT NUMBERS
Thousands of Prince George-area residents go to polls in first days of advance voting
Oct 13, 2024
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Prince George
election 2024
Independent candidate Coralee Oakes campaign different than most
PRINCE GEORGE - The provincial election is down to its final days and candidates are making their final pitches to voters. In the riding of Prince George-North Cariboo, independent candidate and three term incumbent Coralee Oakes has had a different campaign than in years past, but is looking at the campaign in a new l...
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Walk-In clinic in Prince George in jeopardy
PRINCE GEORGE - The future of the Urgent and Primary Care facility in the Parkwood Mall is in jeopardy, with a potential closure date of December 7th. BC Conservative Leader John Rustad says he has heard at great length about the administrative burdens that mire physicians, especially in rural regions of the province. ...
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Parking
Parking changes near UHNBC go into effect on Wednesday
PRINCE GEORGE - Parking regulations in the Hospital Zone near the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia (UHNBC) will undergo changes as part of a strategy to address on-street parking challenges starting Wednesday.As part of the proposed changes, two-hour free parking will remain in areas immediately surroun...
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TURNOUT NUMBERS
Thousands of Prince George-area residents go to polls in first days of advance voting
Elections BC is tracking advance voting turnout for the provincial election. In Prince George-Mackenzie, 4,053 people headed to the polls from Thursday (Oct. 10) to Saturday (Oct. 12), representing 13.2 per cent of eligible voters in the riding. Over the first three days of advance voting in Prince George-North Cariboo...
Oct 13, 2024
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Northern BC
Crime
Mounties investigating McBride B & E
MCBRIDE - A break-and-enter in McBride has RCMP seeking the public's help.Police say it occurred at a home on 3rd Avenue sometime September 30 and October 1, 2024."Nothing appears to have been taken and police have obtained a video of two suspects believed to be responsible. One suspect is shown inside the residen...
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Education
Fort St. James students take to the water in a unique environmental science course
NORTHERN B.C.-When the bell rings most students head to a classroom but for the students in the Fort St. James Environmental Science program they start the boat. Kole Dame is in the course and says that he's learning a tonne on the water, adding that it taught him "to communicate with your peers while working on s...
Oct 09, 2024
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psychiatric care
Three city councillors call for supporting development of Northern psychiatric facility
PRINCE GEORGE - In August, we brought you the story of a Prince George psychiatrist who is petitioning to bring a psychiatric care facility to Northern B.C. That petition has now caught the attention of three city councillors, who have signalled their intent to further support development of a facility in Prince George...
Oct 09, 2024
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Health
New Fort St. James Hospital is substantially complete
FORT ST. JAMES-The current Stuart Lake Hospital opened in 1972 and the government admits its has been outdated for years. Talks of replacing the building have been going on for over a decade but as of October 8, 2024, the new hospitals' construction is substantially complete. While it took a long time to get here offic...
Oct 08, 2024
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Cariboo Region
election 2024
Independent candidate Coralee Oakes campaign different than most
PRINCE GEORGE - The provincial election is down to its final days and candidates are making their final pitches to voters. In the riding of Prince George-North Cariboo, independent candidate and three term incumbent Coralee Oakes has had a different campaign than in years past, but is looking at the campaign in a new l...
55m ago
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Traffic
Vehicle fire closes Highway 97 south of Quesnel
QUESNEL - Update: The highway has reopened to single-lane alternating traffic.Earlier: Motorists beware.A semi truck fire has closed Highway 97 in both directions 45 kilometres south of Quesnel at Melville Road.RCMP say the semi was hauling pulp and paper Friday morning when the driver noticed flames. No one was injure...
Oct 11, 2024
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Provincial politics
Independent candidate calls for targeted rural post-secondary funding
PRINCE GEORGE - Coralee Oakes is calling for the establishment of a targeted rural post-secondary operating grant.The Prince George-North Cariboo independent candidate says "we need to provide sustainable targeted funding for small, rural post-secondary institutions where the geographic locations and large number ...
Oct 08, 2024
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Crime
30-year-old man arrested after fleeing police in Quesnel
QUESNEL - A 30-year-old man that Quesnel RCMP say is a repeat offender has been arrested.It follows a pursuit that began at approximately 9 p.m. Wednesday (Oct.2) night following a report of a suspicious vehicle in the area of Spears Road and Heinzleman Road in Quesnel."Police attempted to conduct a traffic stop w...
Oct 03, 2024
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Sports
WHL
Cougars blanked in Calgary
CALGARY - The Prince George Cougars kicked off a road trip with a 5-0 loss to the Calgary Hitmen on Monday (Oct.14).The Cougars were outshot 36-31, giving up three goals in the second period and two in the third period.Cooper Michaluk was in net for Prince George who continue their three game trip in Medicine Hat Wedne...
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CANADA WEST
Timberwolves suffer second consecutive lopsided defeat to Thunderbirds
PRINCE GEORGE -- The UBC Thunderbirds knocked off the UNBC Timberwolves 7-0 on Saturday (Oct. 12) in Canada West women's soccer action at Masich Place Stadium.UBC, which bested UNBC by the same scoreline on Friday (Oct. 11) in Prince George, scored all seven of its goals in the first half on Saturday and improved to 12...
Oct 13, 2024
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BCHL ACTION
Undefeated Bandits topple visiting Spruce Kings
The Prince George Spruce Kings dropped both of their weekend B.C. Hockey League games in Alberta. Lucas Veilleux and Linden Makow notched goals in a losing effort on Saturday (Oct. 12), with the Spruce Kings falling 6-2 to the hometown Brooks Bandits. Ryder Green stopped 34 shots between the pipes for Prince George.Kei...
Oct 13, 2024
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Canada
Trudeau appoints Daniel Rogers new head of Canada's spy agency
OTTAWA - A veteran of Canada's national security systems has been named the new head of the national spy agency. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed Daniel Rogers as the new director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. He will take over the role on Oct. 28. Rogers replaces David Vigneault, who retire...
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Bilingual Quebec communities lose bid to suspend application of language law rules
MONTREAL - Bilingual Quebec municipalities have lost their bid to have several parts of the government's French-language reform suspended while their case makes its way through the courts. The communities asked the Quebec Superior Court last month to suspend the application of parts of Bill 96 - as the language reform ...
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Founders of Vancouver club that sold tested illicit drugs file Charter challenge
VANCOUVER - The founders of a Vancouver "compassion club" that sold heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine bought on the dark web and tested for contaminants, have filed a court challenge arguing their Charter rights and the rights of users were violated when the club was shut and they were arrested. Eris Nyx an...
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Quebec government imposes measures to address 'toxic climate' at Montreal school
MONTREAL - Corrective measures are underway to address a "toxic climate" of fear and intimidation at a French-language Montreal primary school. Quebec's Education Department has appointed two monitors who started working today at Bedford school in the city's multicultural Côte-des-Neiges district, who h...
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Canada and U.S. list Samidoun as terrorist group, U.S. adds Canadian to terror list
OTTAWA - Canada is listing the pro-Palestinian group Samidoun as a terrorist group, while the U.S. has added a Canadian citizen affiliated with the organization to its counter-terrorism list. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Samidoun will now be listed under Criminal Code offences that ban people from donati...
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Listeria outbreak linked to plant-based milk seems to be over: PHAC
The Public Health Agency of Canada says a Listeria outbreak linked to several plant-based milks appears to be over with no additional cases reported since August. The federal agency says its investigation is now complete and Listeria was found within the production environment of Silk and Great Value plant-based refrig...
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World
Idaho revamps execution chamber so docs can access deep veins after failed lethal injection attempt
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho will begin using central veins deep in the groin, neck, chest or arm to execute prisoners by lethal injection if attempts to insert standard IV lines fail, the Idaho Department of Correction announced Tuesday. Injecting a central venous line has long been a backup plan under the state's offici...
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Breanna Stewart and her wife Marta Xargay receive homophobic threats after Game 1 of WNBA Finals
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart and her wife Marta Xargay received threatening homophobic anonymous emails after Game 1 of the WNBA Finals. The emails went directly to Xargay's account, which was a bit unnerving for the couple, Stewart said at practice on Tuesday. "The fact it came to Mart...
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US warns Israel to boost humanitarian aid into Gaza or risk losing weapons funding
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk losing access to U.S. weapons funding. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned their Israeli counterpart...
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