Category Archives: Prince George

Prince George council to consider support for veterinary school at UNBC
PRINCE GEORGE - Prince George council is getting set to weigh in on the lack of veterinarians in the region.In a report coming to council at Monday's (Feb. 6) meeting, the Standing Committee on Interg...
Feb 4, 2023

PACT team part of ideas offered by Public Safety Minister in Prince George visit
PRINCE GEORGE - BC's Minister of Public Safety visited BC's Northern Capital this week as part of his first series of Community Safety Roundtables."it's an issue in many parts of the province, just as...
Feb 3, 2023

Capital Budget approved
PRINCE GEORGE - The capital budget covers all the physical infrastructure the City owns, from the swimming pools to ice hockey arenas to the Civic Centre. "While we have we, of course, on a lot of ass...
Feb 3, 2023

Black History Month celebrated with a special beer
PRINCE GEORGE - Though many have Valentine's Day circled on their calendars this month, February is important for another reason. It's Black History Month, which offers a chance to honour the legacy o...
Feb 3, 2023

City crews still in the process of cleaning up after snowstorm
PRINCE GEORGE - In the aftermath of this week's snowfall, city crews are still hard at work cleaning up the mess.In the span of three days, well over 30 centimeters of snow fell in Prince George, mean...
Feb 3, 2023

Northern Health CEO Cathy Ulrich to retire
PRINCE GEORGE - Northern Health President and CEO Cathy Ulrich has announced that she will be retiring this year. Ulrich says that she has committed to the Northern Health Board of Directors that she ...
Feb 3, 2023

New collective agreement at UNBC covers graduate teaching assistants
PRINCE GEORGE - A three-year collective agreement has been ratified between UNBC and CUPE 2278. The union represents approximately 100 graduate teaching assistants. The agreement includes:A three-year...
Feb 3, 2023

‘I remember his smile’: Indigenous man’s daughter speaks after 5 RCMP officers charged in his death
VANCOUVER - Lily-Speed Namox feels immense sadness when she thinks about the fact that her two younger siblings will never know their dad."The way I kind of look at it oftentimes and put it into persp...
Feb 2, 2023

RCMP arrest man with knife near elementary school
PRINCE GEORGE - Local Mounties arrested a man with a knife near Peden Hill Elementary today.Prince George RCMP say that just before 2:30 p.m., police received a report of a man walking on Range Road n...
Feb 2, 2023

PGAA and Lheidli T'enneh sign partnership agreement
PRINCE GEORGE - The Lheidli T'enneh First Nation and the Prince George Airport Authority today signed a Collaboration Agreement. The agreement describes the framework that the two groups plan to use t...
Feb 2, 2023