Building Permits
Slower start to 2025 as City of PG issues $22.1 million worth of building permits between January and March
PRINCE GEORGE - New data from the City of Prince George shows a slower start to the year when it comes to building permits. A staff report going before Wednesday's (April 23) City Council meeting shows there were 21 total building permits issued in March, with a combined value of just over $6.9 million. Most of the per...
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Legacy Fund
Applications open for new Chad Staley Memorial Development Fund
PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George Community Foundation says applications are now open for the Chad Staley Memorial Development Fund, named after a former captain of the Prince George Spruce Kings. The fund, which is open to both athletes and local sport organizations, was established by the Chad Staley Memorial Foundat...
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CKPG Today Entertainment
Knox Performance Series presents J.S. Bach's Long Walk in the Snow
Mark your calendar's for April 24th! Knox Performance Centre welcomes CBC's Tom Allen and friends to the stage for "JS Bach's Long Walk in the Snow," a narrated performance accompanied by music from a stellar cast of players: pianist Jamie Parker, soprano Suzie Leblanc, violist Dave Harding Dave Harding and b...
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CKPG Today Food
An Easter cookie extravaganza with The Cookie Attic
Looking for a fun Easter activity? You could even try baking cookies with your kids or grandkids, or hey, if it's just you that's ok too. Check out our visit to see Tammy at The Cookie Attic for an Easter cookie extravanganza.
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Building Permits
Slower start to 2025 as City of PG issues $22.1 million worth of building permits between January and March
PRINCE GEORGE - New data from the City of Prince George shows a slower start to the year when it comes to building permits. A staff report going before Wednesday's (April 23) City Council meeting shows there were 21 total building permits issued in March, with a combined value of just over $6.9 million. Most of the per...
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Legacy Fund
Applications open for new Chad Staley Memorial Development Fund
PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George Community Foundation says applications are now open for the Chad Staley Memorial Development Fund, named after a former captain of the Prince George Spruce Kings. The fund, which is open to both athletes and local sport organizations, was established by the Chad Staley Memorial Foundat...
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Interpretive Centre
Construction of Ancient Forest interpretive centre to begin this summer
PRINCE GEORGE - Longstanding plans for the Lheidli T'enneh First Nation's interpretive centre at the Ancient Forest/Chun T'oh Whudujut Provincial Park are coming to fruition. The First Nation released a request for proposals on March 7th inviting small businesses and local contractors interested in helping build the ce...
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Prosecutor takes ill during sex offender's Charter hearing
PRINCE GEORGE - A constitutional challenge by a man convicted last year of sexually assaulting a former girlfriend was abruptly adjourned April 17 when the Crown prosecutor said he felt ill.Justice Simon Coval took a sudden break before the scheduled afternoon recess. He returned to set April 30 and May 1 as the next d...
Apr 19, 2025
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Federal Election 2025
NDP, Conservatives focus on battleground B.C. heading into final election week
OTTAWA - The Conservatives and NDP spent the weekend hunting votes in British Columbia - a key late-campaign battleground that one pollster says may offer Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre his best shot at victory. Both Poilievre and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh addressed Canadians' cost-of-living concerns at campaign e...
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New record set as 2 million vote on first day of advance polls: Elections Canada
Elections Canada says early voters set a new record for turnout on the first day of advanced polls.Nearly two million people showed up to cast a ballot on Friday, the first of four days for advanced voting in the federal election.Many of those voters were met with long lineups at polling stations across the country.Ele...
Apr 19, 2025
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Liberals, NDP release costed campaign platforms as advance voting continues
OTTAWA - With just over a week left before election day, Liberal Leader Mark Carney and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh published documents on Saturday outlining their full campaign commitments and what they say they'll cost. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who was campaigning in Richmond, B.C. Saturday, said his full p...
Apr 19, 2025
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Liberals, NDP set to launch platforms today; main leaders near Toronto, Vancouver
OTTAWA - The Liberals and the NDP both say they will release their costed electoral platforms today. The documents come after advance voting began Friday with voters packing polling stations across the country. Liberal Leader Mark Carney will release his party's costed platform in Whitby, Ont., in the Greater Toronto A...
Apr 19, 2025
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Special Olympics BC Summer Games
Special Olympics
Prince George bocce team looking forward to hosting Special Olympics
PRINCE GEORGE - The 2025 Special Olympics BC Summer Games will soon be in Prince George, and with the games only three months away the local bocce team is hard at work training and honing their skills."We're getting better, strength is getting there. We're having fun, that's the main part about it," said Bocc...
Apr 15, 2025
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Special Olympics
Local athletes prepare for 2025 Special Olympics BC Summer Games
PRINCE GEORGE - The 2025 Special Olympics BC Summer Games will be hosted in Prince George from July 10-12, and the chance to compete among hundreds of athletes has local athletes excited for the opportunity. "It's pride, we're showing them that we're capable and we're taking it seriously. And this is what we want ...
Apr 08, 2025
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Special Olympics
100-Day Countdown to 2025 Special Olympics BC Summer Games begins
PRINCE GEORGE- The 2025 Special Olympics B.C. Summer (SOBC) Games are coming to Prince George in 100 days. The occasion was celebrated at the Kin Centre Atrium, with speeches from the events organizing committee, 2025 SOBC Games Athlete Ambassadors and even some skill demonstration from a few athletes as well."Our...
Apr 01, 2025
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Northern BC
B.C. shooting suspect dies after allegedly setting fire to apartment building: RCMP
FORT ST. JOHN - Police in northern British Columbia say a man was found dead inside a car Friday after he allegedly set fire to an apartment building and drove into the flames. Fort St. John RCMP say in a statement that the man had been a suspect in a shooting outside the same apartment complex that day. The Mounties s...
Apr 19, 2025
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Education
Teachers and school support workers feeling ignored during SD57 budget process
PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George District Teachers' Association (PGDTA) and CUPE Local 3742 feel they have been ignored in School District 57's budget planning process.PGDTA President Katherine Trepanier calls it "unfortunate" and "deeply disappointing.""It's very unfortunate that the district...
Apr 17, 2025
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Fire
One killed, another injured following gas plant fire north of Fort St John
FORT ST JOHN - A gas plant fire north of Fort St John Monday evening killed one person and injured another.Tourmaline Oil Corp. said there was a fire at its Gundy c-60 gas plant site approximately 150 kilometres north of Fort St John Monday night at 5:45 p.m. local time.The company confirmed that a contractor worker wa...
Apr 15, 2025
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Snotty Nose Rez Kids
Snotty Nose Rez Kids performing in Quesnel
QUESNEL - The City of Quesnel has announced the Snotty Nose Rez Kids will be making their debut in Quesnel. The Juno award winning artists will perform at the West Fraser Centre on Saturday, June 7 at 7:30 p.m."I think it's great for the community, we're pretty excited about it. They just won a Juno Award a couple...
Apr 14, 2025
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Cariboo Region
Federal politics
Independent candidate says more opportunities needed for youth
QUESNEL - An independent candidate has stepped forward in the Cariboo-Prince George riding. Kenneth B. Thomson is a Quesnel-based lawyer who says he's worried about a generation of younger people not joining the workforce. He says it's alarming how many 18-24 year olds aren't working and thinks homelessness and drug is...
Apr 10, 2025
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Real Estate
Horsefly realtor named new BC Northern Real Estate Board Chair
PRINCE GEORGE - The BC Northern Real Estate Board (BCNREB) says Victor Khong has been elected as chair for the 2025-26 term, which got underway Friday (April 4).Khong has been a realtor with Horsefly Realty since 2014, and he has served on a number of BCNREB committees, including the Provincial, Federal, and Municipal ...
Apr 05, 2025
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Federal politics
Update: Liberal Party says Beach never green-lit nor acclaimed officially as candidate in Cariboo-Prince George
PRINCE GEORGE - Update: The Liberal Party has challenged Chris Beach's assertion that he was acclaimed or green-lit as the party's candidate in Cariboo-Prince George.A Liberal Party spokesperson sent us the following statement:"Chris Beach was a nomination candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada in the riding of...
Apr 04, 2025
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IIO investigates
IIO investigating January 2024 Quesnel incident
QUESNEL - The Independent Investigations Office of BC (IIO) is investigating an incident in Quesnel where one person sustained a serious injury while being taken into custody by members of the RCMP on January 6, 2024.According to the IIO, officers initially responded to a call about a person experiencing a mental healt...
Mar 19, 2025
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Sports
Legacy Fund
Applications open for new Chad Staley Memorial Development Fund
PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George Community Foundation says applications are now open for the Chad Staley Memorial Development Fund, named after a former captain of the Prince George Spruce Kings. The fund, which is open to both athletes and local sport organizations, was established by the Chad Staley Memorial Foundat...
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Cougars
Cougars 20-year-olds make jump from WHL to professional hockey
PRINCE GEORGE- Over a week after the Cougars season has concluded, a number of their top players have joined their NHL teams American Hockey League (AHL) affiliated clubs for the remainder of their 2024-25 season.Earlier this week, Cougars Captain Riley Heidt joined the Iowa Wild, while last summers 17th overall pick i...
Apr 16, 2025
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Spruce Kings eliminated from BCHL playoffs
The Prince George Spruce Kings where unable to complete an upset in game seven against the Chilliwack Chiefs on Tuesday night.Chiefs goaltender Quintin Miller stopped all 33 shots the Spruce Kings fired at him to earn his first BCHL playoff shutout in a 4-0 win for the Chiefs.The first goal of the game didn't come unti...
Apr 16, 2025
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Canada
'Overwhelming': Saskatoon drugs crisis far reaching with deaths and hundreds of calls
SASKATOON - The black concrete walls outside Saskatoon's only safe consumption site show the wake left by the city's drug crisis. The names of those who've died, most from drug poisoning, are scrawled on the Prairie Harm Reduction building. Kim Randall, the director of support services, points to the name of a woman wh...
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Hockey fans conflicted over travelling to U.S. to see their teams in NHL playoffs
Jack Gurevitch is a Montreal Canadiens superfan and a proud Canadian who's upset by United States President Donald Trump's tariffs and threats to annex Canada, but he says he won't let the political situation influence whether he travels to U.S. cities to support his team in the playoffs. Not everyone in his family agr...
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Fire breaks out on grounds of steel plant northeast of Montreal
MONTREAL - A fire broke out this morning on the grounds of an ArcelorMittal steel factory in the Montérégie region of Quebec. The fire began around 4 a.m. in scrapped vehicles outside the plant, according to the city of Contrecoeur, located about 50 kilometres northeast of Montreal on the south shore of t...
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New Brunswick group hopes to foster pride in basketball's Canadian roots
ST. STEPHEN - The rise in patriotism prompted by a hostile U.S. president is renewing focus on everything Canada has given the world, and a small New Brunswick mill town wants people to know the sport of basketball belongs on that list. A brick building nestled between an empty lot and a sports bar in St. Stephen, N.B....
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NDP, Conservatives focus on battleground B.C. heading into final election week
OTTAWA - The Conservatives and NDP spent the weekend hunting votes in British Columbia - a key late-campaign battleground that one pollster says may offer Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre his best shot at victory. Both Poilievre and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh addressed Canadians' cost-of-living concerns at campaign e...
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Connor, Scheifele use their smarts to make Jets soar
WINNIPEG - Kyle Connor and Mark Scheifele go together like laces and hockey skates. The Jets' top-line duo each had a goal and two assists to boost Winnipeg to a 5-3 victory over the St. Louis Blues in Saturday's Game 1 opening-round playoff match. Scheifele threaded a pass to set up Connor's one-timer with 1:36 remain...
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World
US airstrikes killed 12 people in Yemen's capital, the Houthi rebels say
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen's capital killed 12 people and wounded 30 others, the Houthi rebels said early Monday. The deaths mark the latest in America's intensified campaign of strikes targeting the rebels. The U.S. military's Central Command did not immediately acknowledge the ...
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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proposes prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuelan deportees
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proposed carrying out a prisoner swap with Venezuela on Sunday, suggesting he would exchange Venezuelan deportees from the United States his government has kept imprisoned for what he called "political prisoners" in Venezuela. In a post on th...
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Israeli probe into the killings of Palestinian medics finds 'professional failures'
JERUSALEM (AP) - An Israeli probe into the killings of 15 Palestinian medics last month in Gaza by Israeli forces said Sunday it has found "professional failures" and a deputy commander will be fired. Israel at first claimed that the medics' vehicles did not have emergency signals on when troops opened fire b...
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