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...
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Round three for the OCP
PRINCE GEORGE - It has been several years in the making. The Official Community Plan sets out the vision for the city over the next several years. Where does there need to be development, or not? And there have been two evenings of public hearings to date. Now Councillors have submitted things they would like to see ch...
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Learn about the importance of railway flags
The Central BC Railway and Forestry Museum holds a lot of special archives including some historic railway flags from Northern BC. Learn more about them on the show.
Apr 14, 2025
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CKPG Today Home Improvement
Taking a look at bathroom trends with New Look Interiors
Hoping to update your bathroom? Check out some of the latest bathroom trends at New Look Interiors on this edition of Home Improvement in partnership with the Canadian Homebuilders Association of Northern BC.
Apr 14, 2025
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Official Community Plan far from done
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Federal Election and Crime
"We can't keep going this way:" Prince George businesses hope change comes with upcoming election
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Cougars
Cougars 20-year-olds make jump from WHL to professional hockey
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Round three for the OCP
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Missing person
RCMP provide more detailed description of missing man
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Prince George
Official Community Plan far from done
PRINCE GEORGE - City Administration has its work cut out for it.A lengthy meeting took place Wednesday night around the proposed new Official Community Plan in which Council peppered Administration with referrals for more information and suggested changes to the draft report. Some of the direction for instance was to h...
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Federal Election and Crime
"We can't keep going this way:" Prince George businesses hope change comes with upcoming election
PRINCE GEORGE - As the federal election draws closer, many Prince George businesses are hoping that big changes come regarding how the country addresses crime. One issue in particular has been top of mind: bail reform."The biggest thing that the federal government can do is proper bail reform. All ten provinces an...
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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...
15h ago
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Round three for the OCP
PRINCE GEORGE - It has been several years in the making. The Official Community Plan sets out the vision for the city over the next several years. Where does there need to be development, or not? And there have been two evenings of public hearings to date. Now Councillors have submitted things they would like to see ch...
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Federal Election 2025
Federal politics
Advance polling for federal election starts Friday
PRINCE GEORGE - Beginning Friday, you'll be able to cast an advance ballot for the April 28 federal election.According to Elections Canada, the advance polls will take place Friday April 18, Saturday April 19, Sunday April 20, and Monday April 21.Advance polls are open each day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and you may only vo...
Apr 16, 2025
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Poilievre promises tougher ethics rules, takes aim at Carney's assets
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to tighten financial transparency rules for elected officials - and is using that promise to take aim at Liberal Leader Mark Carney. Poilievre told a press conference in Ottawa on Sunday that if his party forms government, he'll ban what he calls "shadow l...
Apr 13, 2025
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Federal politics
Moral issues top of mind for Christian Heritage Party candidate
PRINCE GEORGE - Up until about eight or nine weeks ago, Jake Wiens wasn't even considering taking a stab at federal politics.But that eventually changed, which begs the question, why?"I would have thought you were crazy. It's not on my bucket list, it's nowhere. But I'm a reader, I'm a Lazy Boy theologian, a cultu...
Apr 11, 2025
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Federal politics
Bachrach 'disappointed' Conservative and Liberal opponents bailing on Terrace debate
SMITHERS - An all-candidates debate scheduled for Friday night in Terrace won't have a full slate of candidates attending and the NDP candidate isn't pleased.NDP incumbent Taylor Bachrach says that his Conservative and Liberal opponents have declined at the last minute."I'm hearing from a lot of people in Terrace ...
Apr 11, 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
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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Federal politics
Bachrach 'disappointed' Conservative and Liberal opponents bailing on Terrace debate
SMITHERS - An all-candidates debate scheduled for Friday night in Terrace won't have a full slate of candidates attending and the NDP candidate isn't pleased.NDP incumbent Taylor Bachrach says that his Conservative and Liberal opponents have declined at the last minute."I'm hearing from a lot of people in Terrace ...
Apr 11, 2025
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BC Highway Patrol
BC Highway Patrol issues over 3,000 tickets during March enforcement campaign
BC Highway Patrol issued a lot of tickets during its enforcement campaign in March.Across the province last month, almost 2,800 tickets were issued for distracted driving and 873 for people not wearing seatbelts, including 87 tickets to parents whose children were not properly secured.Some of the campaign numbers inclu...
Apr 09, 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
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...
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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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Gymnastics
Local Prince George gymnast to represent BC at Western Canadian Championships
PRINCE GEORGE- Prince George gymnast Alencia Graham is preparing to represent Team BC at the Western Canadian Championship next weekend (Apr. 24-26) in Saskatoon. To qualify for the provincial team, Graham had to put up an impressive performance at the Twisters Invitational last month in Abbotsford."You have to ma...
Apr 15, 2025
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Canada
Party leaders face off in English for second federal leaders' debate
MONTREAL - The leaders of Canada's four main political parties will square off for a second and final leaders' debate tonight in Montreal, after an initial French-language faceoff on Wednesday. Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and the Bloc Québécoi...
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In the news today: Federal leaders debate round 2, fewer Canadians heading stateside
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Round 2 of federal leaders' debate tonight The leaders of Canada's four main political parties will square off for a second and final leaders' debate tonight in Montreal, after an initial French-language faceoff on Wednesday. Libe...
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Gender-based violence spikes five years after Nova Scotia mass shooting
HALIFAX - The worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history began almost five years ago, shortly after a Nova Scotia man brutally assaulted his common-law wife. Lisa Banfield was kicked, punched and choked by her partner of 19 years on the night of April 18, 2020. She was left with fractured ribs and vertebrae but man...
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Quebec's move to cut gasoline floor price won't be felt at the pumps, experts say
MONTREAL - The Quebec government has made a move it hopes will lower the price of gas in the province - but observers say consumers are unlikely to benefit at the pump. They say the province has faced pressure to act since the federal government scrapped the consumer carbon price, which applied across much of the rest ...
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B.C. operation by police, regulators finds losses of $4M in assets to crypto fraud
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's securities regulator says a recent two-day operation to identify victims of a specific type of cryptocurrency fraud has found 89 people who were drained of more than $4 million in assets. The B.C. Securities Commission says the agency brought together regulators, police, crypto trading pl...
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Nav Canada warns to expect flight delays at Vancouver International Airport
RICHMOND - The agency that provides air traffic control for Canada's airports is warning travellers at Vancouver's airport of flight delays over what it says are "resource constraints." Nav Canada says in a social media post that passengers need to check the status of their flights with their airlines before ...
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World
Russia's top court lifts terror group designation on Afghanistan's Taliban
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a ban on Afghanistan's Taliban, who were designated as a terrorist group more than two decades ago. The move was a diplomatic victory for the Taliban, who were put on Russia's list of terrorist organizations in 2003, making any contact with them punishable under R...
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US Army engineers decide to fast-track Great Lakes tunnel permits under Trump energy emergency order
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to fast-track permits for building a protective tunnel around an aging Enbridge oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes, stoking environmentalists' fears that the project will escape scrutiny, damage the sensitive region and perpetuate fossil fuel...
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10 guards charged over the fatal beating of a New York inmate, including 2 with murder
UTICA, N.Y. (AP) - Ten New York prison guards were charged Wednesday in connection with the fatal beating of a 22-year-old prison inmate, including two charged with murder. It's the second time this year a group of correctional officers in the state was indicted for a death behind bars. Other prisoners say several guar...
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