Mental Health Research
CMHA receives large grant for mental health research
PRINCE GEORGE - The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) of Northern BC has received $75,000 in funding to conduct community-based research on mental illness. $50,000 of the funding will go towards the connections between mental health and homelessness, while the remaining $25,000 will focus on the unique challeng...
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Two-vehicle MVI closes Highway 97 north of Prince George
PRINCE GEORGE - Update (3:45 p.m.): RCMP have confirmed one person was killed in Monday morning's crash on Highway 97 near Summit Lake Road, approximately 50 kilometres north of Prince George.Police say a vehicle crossed the centre line and collided with a logging truck, killing one person.Update (3:05 p.m.): The highw...
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CKPG Today Community
Spring reminders as bears wake up from hibernation
The time has come, you may be opening your shorts drawers for the first time in a long time, and the bears are waking up. Yes we mean spring is here in Prince George and Northern BC! We caught up with the Northern Bear Awareness Society to re-iterate some reminders on how you can help the bears including putting away y...
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CKPG Today Events
Your opportunity to learn more about the Rocky Mountain Rangers coming up
The Rocky Mountain Rangers are hosting an open house at their headquarters in Prince George on Dornbierer Crescent on March 29th in the latest opportunity to get up close and personal with new items, historic items, and learn about the legacy of the Rangers in the city!
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Mental Health Research
CMHA receives large grant for mental health research
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Two-vehicle MVI closes Highway 97 north of Prince George
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PG Fire Rescue
Weekend fire on Victoria Street causes $10K in damages
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Hockey North
U18 AAA Cariboo Cougars finish as provincial runners-up after game three loss Sunday
Mar 23, 2025
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'Passenger tax' class-action suit against Prince George airport goes ahead
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Mental Health Research
CMHA receives large grant for mental health research
PRINCE GEORGE - The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) of Northern BC has received $75,000 in funding to conduct community-based research on mental illness. $50,000 of the funding will go towards the connections between mental health and homelessness, while the remaining $25,000 will focus on the unique challeng...
3h ago
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Traffic
Two-vehicle MVI closes Highway 97 north of Prince George
PRINCE GEORGE - Update (3:45 p.m.): RCMP have confirmed one person was killed in Monday morning's crash on Highway 97 near Summit Lake Road, approximately 50 kilometres north of Prince George.Police say a vehicle crossed the centre line and collided with a logging truck, killing one person.Update (3:05 p.m.): The highw...
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PG Fire Rescue
Weekend fire on Victoria Street causes $10K in damages
PRINCE GEORGE - Prince George Fire Rescue doused a structure fire Saturday morning on the 1500-block of Victoria Street (March 22). Crews arrived at around 9:30 a.m. to find a suite in a multi tenant residential property on fire. The flames were limited to the one suite with damages estimated at $10,000. The cause of t...
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Hockey North
U18 AAA Cariboo Cougars finish as provincial runners-up after game three loss Sunday
PRINCE GEORGE - It's heartbreak for the U18 AAA Cariboo Cougars as they were beaten 3-2 in overtime by the Okanagan Rockets in game three of the British Columbia Elite Hockey League (BCEHL) championship series. Hudson Getzlaf, nephew of former Anaheim Ducks forward Ryan Getzlaf, scored the winner at 4:26 in overtime to...
Mar 23, 2025
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Northern BC
Crime
Man faces several charges following alleged assault and arson
BURNS LAKE - A 32-year-old man from Southbank is in police custody and facing several charges in relation to an alleged assault and arson that occurred Thursday morning (March 20).Burns Lake RCMP say at approximately 1:30 a.m. that day, they responded to a report that a man had been struck by a vehicle in Southbank. Th...
Mar 21, 2025
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Politics
Bachrach ready for election call
TERRACE - With a federal election call expected on Sunday, one race to watch will be in Northwest B.C. in Skeena-Bulkley Valley. The NDP has held the riding since 2004 but the Conservatives have nominated star candidate Ellis Ross, a former MLA in British Columbia and former chief councillor for the Haisla Nation. Incu...
Mar 20, 2025
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Healthcare
Burns Lake ER reopens
BURNS LAKE - The Emergency Department at the Burns Lake Hospital is running at normal again after being closed overnight.Northern Health says that Emergency Department services were unavailable between 11 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. Wednesday due to staffing challenges. Emergency department services at the Lakes District h...
Mar 19, 2025
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Scam Calls
Northern Health warning of scam calls that offer prizes
PRINCE GEORGE - Northern Health is warning people to be careful of scam calls that claim to offer prizes like a fire safety basket or a free home inspections. In a social media post, the health authority says it has become aware of "several" such instances, and that these calls are "in no way affiliated&...
Mar 16, 2025
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Cariboo Region
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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IIO investigates
IIO investigating injuries of one person while in RCMP custody in Quesnel
QUESNEL - British Columbia's police watchdog is investigating an incident in Quesnel where a person was injured in an RCMP detachment cell.The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) says information provided by the affected person states that at about 2:30 p.m. on September 8, 2024, police responded to a call concerne...
Mar 12, 2025
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Armed Robbery
Quesnel RCMP looking for suspect after armed robbery at Circle K store
QUESNEL, B.C. - RCMP in Quesnel are asking for help in identifying a suspect after an early morning robbery at a Circle K convenience store, and they're looking to speak to an man who may have witnessed the entire incident.Police say they were called around 5:00 a.m. Friday (March 7) and told that a gunman had robbed t...
Mar 08, 2025
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Politics
Quesnel mayor wins court case
QUESNEL - The mayor of Quesnel, Ron Paull, has won his court case against the City of Quesnel related to censure and sanctions levelled against him last year.City Council censured him after it learned Paull had taken a book that downplayed the devastating impacts of residential schools to a Cariboo Regional District bo...
Mar 06, 2025
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Sports
Hockey North
U18 AAA Cariboo Cougars finish as provincial runners-up after game three loss Sunday
PRINCE GEORGE - It's heartbreak for the U18 AAA Cariboo Cougars as they were beaten 3-2 in overtime by the Okanagan Rockets in game three of the British Columbia Elite Hockey League (BCEHL) championship series. Hudson Getzlaf, nephew of former Anaheim Ducks forward Ryan Getzlaf, scored the winner at 4:26 in overtime to...
Mar 23, 2025
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Chiefs 4 Spruce Kings 3 SO
Spruce Kings head to Surrey Sunday needing a win to keep BCHL playoff hopes alive
CHILLIWACK, B.C. - The Prince George Spruce Kings are gearing up for a must-win Sunday (March 23) afternoon matchup against the Surrey Eagles in the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL).The Spruce Kings are in tough in their bid to make playoffs this season, as a loss in regulation Sunday would eliminate them from con...
Mar 23, 2025
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Cougars 4 Royals 3 OT
Ziemmer scores OT winner to lift Cougars past Victoria in WHL regular season finale
PRINCE GEORGE - Koehn Ziemmer, the all-time leading goal scorer for the Prince George Cougars, scored the overtime winner to power his team to a 4-3 win against the Victoria Royals Saturday (March 22) night. The 20-year-old LA Kings prospect scored 2:14 into the extra period in his final WHL regular season game as the ...
Mar 23, 2025
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Canada
Police in B.C. say girl, 5, revived with naloxone after fentanyl overdose
MISSION, B.C. - Police in Mission, B.C., say a five-year-old girl was sent to hospital last week after she apparently overdosed on fentanyl, requiring multiple doses of naloxone to revive her. Mission RCMP say emergency responders were called to a home on Nottman Street on Thursday, where they found the child unconscio...
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U.S. ferry company 'unintentionally' flew Canadian flag upside down entering Victoria
SEATTLE - The operator of a ferry service between Vancouver Island and Washington state says it's sorry for "unintentionally" raising the Canadian flag upside down as it entered Victoria harbour on Sunday. The Black Ball Ferry Line, which runs a ferry between Victoria and Port Angeles, Wash., says raising the...
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Vancouver car show sets attendance records after Tesla ban, defying boycott calls
VANCOUVER - Organizers of the Vancouver International Auto Show say the event broke attendance records after it attracted international headlines for banning Tesla on safety grounds. Supporters of the electric car company and CEO Elon Musk had called for a boycott of the show, but organizers say it instead set a new fi...
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Canadian governments rely on Starlink for critical services. Some are reconsidering
ST. JOHN'S - More than half of Canada's provincial and territorial governments buy critical internet and emergency communications services from Starlink - a satellite constellation owned by billionaire Elon Musk. And with Musk now acting as a top adviser to a U.S. president who has repeatedly threatened to annex Canada...
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In the news today: Federal leaders enter first full campaign day
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Federal party leaders enter first full day on campaign trail in five-week election Liberal Leader Mark Carney will try to inject some Canadian symbolism and pride to his election campaign today with a stop in Gander, Nfld. Carney'...
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Federal party leaders enter first full day on campaign trail in five-week election
OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Mark Carney will try to inject some Canadian symbolism and pride to his election campaign today with a stop in Gander, Nfld. The town in northeastern Newfoundland famously fed and housed thousands of passengers - most of them Americans - when flights were grounded after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror...
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World
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resigns after 5 years in the position
The head of the beleaguered U.S. Postal Service, Louis DeJoy, resigned Monday after nearly five years in the position and following protests last weekend by postal workers concerned about the direction of the agency. DeJoy had said last month he planned to step down but hadn't set a date. Deputy Postmaster General Doug...
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Venezuela-hired lawyers file petition in El Salvador in effort to free Venezuelans deported by US
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - Lawyers hired by the Venezuelan government filed legal action Monday in El Salvador aimed at freeing the 238 Venezuelans deported by the United States who are being held in a Salvadoran maximum-security prison. Jaime Ortega, who says he represents 30 of the imprisoned Venezuelans, said ...
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Trump's portrait to be taken down at Colorado Capitol after president claimed it was `distorted'
DENVER (AP) - A portrait of President Donald hanging at the Colorado state Capitol will be taken down after Trump claimed it was "purposefully distorted," state officials said Monday. House Democrats said in a statement that the oil painting would be taken down at the request of Republican leaders in the Legi...
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