Category Archives: Cariboo Region

Clinton, Deka Lake, Wells getting faster broadband
CLINTON – Faster internet service is coming to the Cariboo communities of Clinton, Deka Lake and Wells. The province says local company ABC Communications won a 50 percent contribution to the pr...
Nov 28, 2018

Indigenous Cultural Centre In The Works For Quesnel
QUESNEL - The City of Quesnel has partnered with the Lhtako Dene Nation with the hopes of building an Indigenous Cultural Centre. It would be located at Ceal Tingley Park at the confluence of the Fras...
Nov 21, 2018

Banff Mountain Film Festival to Make Stop in Williams Lake
WILLIAMS LAKE – Mark your calendar film fans, because the Banff Mountain Film Festival is coming to Williams Lake. It will take place on December 4th, starting at 7 pm in the Gibraltar Room in t...
Nov 15, 2018

UPDATE: Hwy 97 Cleared North of Quesnel
PRINCE GEORGE – Latest Update: DriveBC says the highway is now cleared. Update: DriveBC says the highway is open to one lane of alternating traffic, north of Quesnel. Earlier: A vehicle incident...
Nov 15, 2018

West Fraser Announces Production Reduction
QUESNEL - More bad news for the forest industry. West Fraser has announced it will permanently curtail approximately 300 million board feet of combined lumber production at its Fraser Lake and Quesnel...
Nov 14, 2018

Log Truck Driver Survives Scare West of Williams Lake
WILLIAMS LAKE - A logging truck driver suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries in a single vehicle crash west of Williams Lake this (Nov.13) morning. Cpl. Jeremy Roberts says just before 11...
Nov 13, 2018

Homicide Investigation Underway in Quesnel
QUESNEL - Mounties in Quesnel have launched a homicide investigation. North District RCMP Cpl. Madonna Saunderson says it stems from an incident that occurred last Thursday (Nov.8) when a man was take...
Nov 13, 2018

Williams Lake CO is B.C.'s conservation officer of the year
VICTORIA - A conservation officer from Williams Lake has been recognized as B.C.’s conservation officer of the year for 2017. Sgt. Len Butler is a 27-year veteran of B.C.’s CO Service afte...
Nov 08, 2018

West Fraser Washout A Headache
QUESNEL – Seventeen kilometres south of Quesnel on West Fraser Road and motorists run up against a barricade. That’s because five sections along three kilometres of that road were washed o...
Nov 08, 2018

Rotating CUPW Strikes Hit the Cariboo
PRINCE GEORGE - Canada’s postal strike has hit the Cariboo for the first time. Pickets went up early this morning in both Williams Lake and Quesnel in the third week of rotating strikes. Those p...
Nov 08, 2018