Category Archives: Cariboo Region
Charges Laid in Murder West of Williams Lake
ALEXIS CREEK - A 23-year-old man has been charged in connection to a homicide in Alexis Creek last month. Cpl. Madonna Saunderson says in a news release that Kyle Tyler Gilpin is now facing a second-d...
Nov 06, 2018
CRD Libraries Launch Engagement Campaign
WILLIAMS LAKE – A new campaign is being launched by the Cariboo Regional District libraries and residents are being asked to provide their feedback. Through an online survey, joining the Questio...
Nov 06, 2018
Local family-run business targeted by thieves overnight
WILLIAMS LAKE – Gordo's Rent-All is a well-known Powersports dealership and construction rental service in Williams Lake. Sometime overnight, their shop on Mackenzie Avenue South was not only br...
Nov 05, 2018
New Recycle Depot To Open In Quesnel
QUESNEL – Residents in Quesnel will soon be able to recycle a wider range of packaging and paper items, thanks to a new recycling depot that opens up in December. The new Recycle BC depot will b...
Nov 01, 2018
Trudeau to visit Tsilhqot'in territory, personally exonerate chiefs hanged during Chilcotin War
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit Tsilhqot’in territory on Friday, an event billed as a personal exoneration of six Tsilhqot’in War Chiefs who were hanged by B...
Oct 31, 2018
Williams Lake Highway Project Shutting Down For Winter
WILLIAMS LAKE - The Ministry of Transportation is about to put the brakes on a major highway project near Williams Lake. The Highway 97 construction work currently runs from the Williams Lake Indian R...
Oct 31, 2018
Two Arrests Made In Ongoing Drug Investigation
QUESNEL – As a drug investigation continues, RCMP executed a search warrant at a home on Winder Street in Quesnel Thursday afternoon. Police say two men were arrested and a large number of drugs...
Oct 26, 2018
Suspicious Death West of Williams Lake
ALEXIS CREEK - One man is in police custody after a suspicious death in the Chilcotin. Mounties say the Alexis Creek RCP were called to a residence at Redstone, located about an hour-and-a-half west o...
Oct 25, 2018
Prescribed Burns Planned In Cariboo-Chilcotin
WILLIAMS LAKE – Two ecosystem restoration burns will be happening this week in the Cariboo Fire Centre. A 53-hectare burn will be conducted Monday in the Echo Mountain area, about nine kilometre...
Oct 22, 2018
Decision 2018 - Northern BC and Cariboo Results
PRINCE GEORGE - Tonight is Election Night. Here you’ll find the election results for areas in northern BC and the Cariboo region. BURNS LAKE MAYORAL CANDIDATES Dolores D Funk – 223 | Mayor...
Oct 20, 2018