Category Archives: Prince George

Evacuation alert issued by Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako
The Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako has issued an evacuation alert by recommendation of the BC Wildfire Service. Due to potential danger to life and health, all lands and properties accessed by O...
Sep 07, 2024

Spruce Kings open pre-season with OT win
COQUITLAM -- Brogan McNeil scored the overtime winner for the Prince George Spruce Kings in a 3-2 victory over the Coquitlam Express in BC Hockey League pre-season action on Friday (Sept. 6) on the Lo...
Sep 07, 2024

UNBC soccer clubs suffer defeat
The UNBC Timberwolves were unable to muster a goal in Canada West men's soccer action on Friday (Sept. 6) in Prince George, falling 1-0 to the UBC Okanagan Heat of Kelowna. UNBC is 0-4-1 and looking f...
Sep 07, 2024

Calling it a career: Gordon Duke retiring from PGAA at end of 2024
PRINCE GEORGE - It has sometimes been a wild and turbulent ride for Gordon Duke as President and CEO of the Prince George Airport Authority. Starting in 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic, Duke h...
Sep 06, 2024

Volunteer-led initiative harvesting thousands of apples to bear-proof city
PRINCE GEORGE - The first ever Prince George Fall Fruit Fest is taking place this weekend. From Sept. 6-8, the Recycling and Environmental Action Planning Society (REAPS) is organizing a volunteer led...
Sep 06, 2024

Canfor decision hastens questions around tenure
PRINCE GEORGE - It has been a tough week for more than five hundred Canfor employees between Vanderhoof and Fort St. John, with the forestry giant announcing the permanent closure of those operations....
Sep 06, 2024

Prince George excluded from nurse retention incentive
PRINCE GEORGE - Prince George has been excluded from the Ministry of Health's current retention plan which helps incentivize nurses to stay in the North.Raelene Stevenson, lobby coordinator for the No...
Sep 06, 2024

'I'm a true conservative': Rachael Weber on her removal as Conservative candidate
PRINCE GEORGE - Rachael Weber says that when she heard the news that she had been dropped as the Conservative Party of BC's candidate for the riding of Prince George-Mackenzie, she heard it from a sta...
Sep 06, 2024

Year-over-year unemployment rate drops in Prince George
PRINCE GEORGE - The unemployment rate in August in Prince George was 4.7 per cent.That's down from 8.6 per cent in August last year. Statistics Canada says that 56,700 people were working last month c...
Sep 06, 2024

Final Summer Street Fest takes place this weekend
PRINCE GEORGE- CrossRoads is hosting a summer send off on September 7, 2024. The block party will be on 5th Avenue and George Street and will feature craft beers, street food, live music and games.Roc...
Sep 06, 2024