POWDER KING - Good news for outdoor enthusiasts.Powder King Mountain Resort is opening up this Friday (Nov.22).In a social media post, the resort says it has amazing snow conditions thanks to heavy snowfall, including 80 centimetres over the past 24 hours.The lifts will be running Friday from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.The res...

FORT ST. JOHN - Police in Fort St. John are asking for help in finding a father and his two children who haven't been seen since Friday, Nov. 15.RCMP say the family of Aaron Hume asked police to check in on the 38-year-old and his two children, 10-year-old son Michael and 7-year-old Angelique.Mounties say Aaron may be ...

FORT ST. JAMES - A BC SPCA animal protection officer rescued seven nine-week-old kittens in Fort St. James.The SPCA says they were rescued from what appeared to be an abandoned home after receiving a complaint from the public. "The officer arrived to find one of the windows at the front of the house broken and gla...

PRINCE GEORGE - Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for the Pine Pass.Fifteen to twenty centimetres of snow is expected to fall by Thursday morning. The snowfall is being attributed to a frontal system moving through northern B.C."Rapidly accumulating snow could make travel difficult over some locatio...

DAWSON CREEK, B.C. - Dawson Creek RCMP are renewing their call for information on a teenager who went missing more than eight years ago. In a news release issued Thursday (Nov. 7), RCMP say the investigation into Denny Poole's disappearance remains active with Mounties investigating leads and following up on informatio...

Rapidly expanding government jobs at the expense of almost zero private sector job growth, financed on the public credit card, at almost 5 billion dollars a year in interest payments, with plans for more record deficits and debt, has got BC in an economic downspin that's likely to end up in a full-blown hurricane.In ad...

NORTHERN BC- The first woman elected to a provincial legislature in Canada was Louise McKinney in the 1917 Alberta general election, while the first woman elected to the House of Commons was Agnes Macphail, in the 1921 federal election. That was also the year women were allowed to run for office. "If you think bac...

PRINCE GEORGE - Though it won't affect the final result, Elections BC has ordered a recount of one ballot box in the Prince George-Mackenzie riding.In a statement released Monday, Elections BC says that it is applying for the recount after discovering that votes from that ballot box were not counted or reported on elec...

MACKENZIE - The BC Wildfire Service will be completing a wildfire hazard abatement project in the Germansen Landing area. Burning is anticipated to start on November 4, 2024 and continue until November 8, 2024, and BCWS personnel will prepare, control and monitor these fires.BC Wildfire crews will burn approximately 27...

CHETWYND - Search crews and police have suspended their search for a man and his dog who went missing last month while on a hike in the Chetwynd area.James Joseph Edmund Barnes and his golden retriever Murphy were last seen between 11 and 11:30 a.m. on Friday, October 18, on the Ground Birch Road off the 269 Road.His g...

MACKENZIE - A resident of Mackenzie has 500,000 reasons to be happy.The BC Lottery Corporation says Marita Grattan won $500,000 after purchasing a winning Daily Grand ticket on October 17, 2024."I was in my living room when I found out," recalled Grattan. "My son was with me when I checked the ticket on ...

FORT ST. JOHN - The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia (CFSEU-BC) needs your help locating eight people wanted in response to a drug trafficking network in the Peace.The CFSEU's drug investigation began in June 2022. It was in collaboration with policing partners in Fort St John, Dawson Creek ...

OTTAWA - NDP Transport Critic and MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley Taylor Bachrach has called out the federal Minister of Transport for failing to hold Canadian airlines accountable. "The issue of airlines mistreating passengers with disabilities is not unique to the United States," said Bachrach. "Here in C...

PRINCE GEORGE- On October 28, 2019 Laureen Campbell Fabian left for a hike and five year later she still hasn't been found. Houston RCMP say that while people have stepped forward with information to aid their investigation, Laureen remains missing. The police are calling upon the public for help as they continue their...

PRINCE GEORGE - A tourism summit was held in Prince George this week.It was the first chance since COVID for tourism operators to have a chance to gather and talk about one of the most important industries in B.C. Tourism generates about $20 billion in revenue annually, and employs roughly 140,000 people in 19,000 diff...

FORT ST. JAMES - RCMP need your help in locating a wanted man.Police say 39-year-old Devin Andrew Jacobs was last known to be in Abbotsford but has ties to Fort St. James and may be headed to that community.He's wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for breach of parole and breach of conditions.Jacobs is described as:39 year...

NORTHERN BC - The ballots say it all. A record number of independents at 40. But, despite the numbers, not one of those 40 grabbed a seat. Mike Bernier was one of those names. Bernier was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in 2013. In 2017, he was re-elected in his riding of Peace River South with 76 per cent of...

UPDATE: RCMP have released photos of the CCTV footage that appears to show two individuals spray painting the rainbow crosswalk.Photo Credit: Vanderhoof RCMPZoomed in image of the two individualsEARLIER: VANDERHOOF-Mounties in Vanderhoof are investigating a report of mischief to property that took place on October 19, ...

VANDERHOOF - The Vanderhoof man who fired shots at the town's RCMP detachment three years ago has had his 10-year prison sentence cut in half.Last November, Paul Russell was acquited of attempted murder but was sentenced to 8-and-a-half years for unlawful discharge of a firearm and mischief endangering life and a year-...

CHETWYND - Search and rescue teams have been mobilized to help find a missing hunter.North District RCMP say James Joseph Edmund Barnes has been missing since Friday after going grouse hunting in the Chetwynd area. Barnes went hunting in his grey Chevy pickup with his dog Murphy, a golden retriever and was last seen be...

PRINCE GEORGE - CKPG will be your one-stop shop for provincial election coverage Saturday night (Oct.19), with a special emphasis on the three Prince George ridings and Nechako Lakes.From 8 p.m. until 10 p.m., CKPG-TV will broadcast live from its studios on 3rd Avenue. We will have two in-studio guests - former BC Libe...

VANDERHOOF- Two people were killed in a tragic crash last Friday (Oct. 11) night on the 5800 Block of Sackner Road in Vanderhoof.It all started when Vanderhoof RCMP say they were notified of a single vehicle crash involving an animal just before 8:30 p.m. that night.Mounties say two people attended the scene to help wi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

MACKENZIE - RCMP have arrested a murder suspect.Drake Kerr was arrested on Friday, October 4 for Second-Degree Murder in Mackenzie, BC."We are glad to report that Mr. Kerr is currently in police custody and will be held in custody to appear before the courts," says Cpl. Brett Urano BC RCMP spokesperson. "...

NORTHERN B.C.- The BC Prosecution service has approved a charge of Second-Degree murder against Drake Matthew Kerr. This after an RCMP North District Major Crime Unit investigation into an early morning September 29, 2024 shooting in Mackenzie. RCMP received reports of the shots fired at a residence located on the 100 ...