Category Archives: Cariboo Region

WILLIAMS LAKE - The City of Williams Lake says Mayor Walt Cobb is resting and recovering after suffering a heart attack this week. In a news release, the City says Cobb self-admitted to hospital early...

QUESNEL- Quesnel RCMP responded to the 500 block of Callanan Street in Quesnel this morning (April 12) at approximately 4 a.m. for the complaint of an injured person. Police then located a man sufferi...

CARIBOO REGION- Category 3 open fires are now prohibited throughout the Cariboo Fire Centre to help prevent human-caused wildfires and protect public safety. Prohibited activities constituting a Categ...

CARIBOO REGION- The Cariboo-Chilcotin Crime Reduction Unit (CC-CRU) based out of Williams Lake will continue into 2020. Since the creation of the unit created in May 2017, it has had: 330 investigatio...

QUESNEL - A well-known lumber mill in the Cariboo region has been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars after a worker sustained serious injuries at the plant. The incident happened at West Fraser Mi...

CARIBOO REGION- B.C. Wildfire Service crews will assist with multiple ecosystem restoration burns in the Cariboo Fire Centre over the next few weeks. The six prescribed burns will be managed by the mi...

WILLIAMS LAKE - The Cariboo Regional District has officially declared Maureen LeBourdais the new director for Electoral Area ‘F’. LeBourdais walked away with a big victory in the Area R...

CLINTON- The Village of Clinton’s volunteer fire department is planning a 13-hectare prescribed burn this month. It is scheduled to take place just north of the village and, according to a news ...

WILLIAMS LAKE- Cariboo Regional District Area ‘F’ residents will go to the polls Saturday. The electoral area’s director position came open when Conrad Turcotte, who was elected in t...

WILLIAMS LAKE- The Cariboo Regional District is expanding its Williams Lake office to include an emergency operations centre (EOC). In a news release, the CRD says renovations will be underway this sp...