Tag Archives: Environment

PRINCE GEORGE - Today is the absolute deadline for the use of plastic shopping bags. They will be banned for use in stores. It comes as deadlines in the Province's Clean BC Action Plan are laid out. "...

PRINCE GEORGE - Community Gardens are popping up all around the city after a number of incidents such as fire and floods, highlighted the precarious nature of access to fresh and fruits. And one parti...

PRINCE GEORGE - It looks like a collection of Christmas lights at that festive time of year. Large bins that hold nets one-feet in length. There are dozen such bins, each with their own net. And the S...

PRINCE GEORGE - From spiking temperatures during a heat dome in the summer, to a massive deluge from two atmospheric rivers in the fall, 2021 was a wild year for weather in the Pacific Northwest. In a...

PRINCE GEORGE - "As of April 1st, the average of all snow measurements across BC is 63 percent-of-normal." That was the message from Jonathan Boyd of the BC River Forecast Centre. "Dropping from March...

OTTAWA - The national price on pollution will rise by $15 per tonne today. Here's some questions answered about what this could mean for you. Who pays the carbon price? Canada has two different carbon...

NANAIMO - Prawning in an environmentally sensitive area off the lower Sunshine Coast resulted in a heavy fine and fishing gear seizure against a Delta man. A recent provincial court sentencing hearing...

PRINCE GEORGE - According to the latest snowpack bulletin from the BC River Forecast Centre, the Prince George area is still experiencing lower than normal snowpack levels. Dave Campbell, head of the ...

PRINCE GEORGE - Jesi Lauzon and a host of volunteers have been busy lately building duck nesting boxes like this one and hen houses and a project called Help Us Help Ducks. "So this is our pilot. This...

PRINCE GEORGE - The smoky conditions moved in in time for the long weekend and have persisted. While it's pretty hard to narrow down where it's coming from, the B.C. Wildfire service has its suspicion...