Environment

Price tag of on-going road restoration projects in Cariboo North tops $1 billion

Photo Courtesy: Coralee OakesPRINCE GEORGE- In 2017, BC's Central Interior was the epicenter of a fire season now remembered as one of the worst on record for the Province. Overall, more than 3 millio...

Mar 21, 2023

Landslides interrupt backcountry roads between Prince George & Williams Lake

PRINCE GEORGE - According to the Drive BC website, landslides and washouts have affected 5 access roads on both sides of Highway 97, and the impacts will last for a number of weeks. The Quesnel-Hixon ...

Mar 17, 2023

Council looks at waste diversion

PRINCE GEORGE - Prince George has had a blue box reculing program for years. But a discussion about the scheduling came about during City budget discussions. Currently, garbage is collected once a wee...

Feb 15, 2023

Potholes re-emerge on city streets as freeze-thaw weather patterns wreak havoc on local infrastructure

Prince George city yard crews have busy round the clock with the clean up in the aftermath of last week's major snowfall. During the day plow crews have been keeping main thoroughfares and priority ro...

Feb 07, 2023

Dangerous avalanche conditions persist across Central Interior backcountry

PRINCE GEORGE- It's mid January, and already the first fatal avalanche of 2023 has been recorded in the Kootenay's. It happened on Monday Afternoon, two backcountry skiers accessed a slope via snowmob...

Jan 10, 2023

Extreme cold primes BC's Rocky Mountains for active avalanche season

PRINCE GEORGE - A huge dump of snow after a cold dry start to winter is pretty much an avalanche forecasters perfect storm, and those are exactly the conditions we've been experiencing across Northern...

Dec 30, 2022

Prince George plow crews deploy Chlorides and 'Fracture' in battle against icy city streets

PRINCE GEORGE- To Salt, or not to Salt? That's the question top of mind at the Prince George City Yard when it comes to de-icing city streets in the aftermath of a record cold snap, a significant earl...

Greg Fry Dec 29, 2022

Boxing Day freezing rain continues to wreak havoc on city streets

PRINCE GEORGE- It all started in the early morning hours of Boxing Day, a warm front moving across the central interior saw temperatures rise suddenly enough that moisture hanging around the local are...

Dec 28, 2022

'Hundreds' of Canadians stranded for days in Mexico after Sunwing cancellations

Hundreds of Canadians are stranded in Cancn, Mexico and don't know how they'll get home after their Sunwing flights were cancelled last week. Passengers say they've been shuffled from hotel to hotel a...

Dec 26, 2022

Arctic Air over Northern BC creates risk of frostbite within minutes on exposed skin

PRINCE GEORGE - The Northern Capital is caught in the icy vice of an extreme arctic air outflow that's sent temperatures plunging well below negative 30, and with the bitter cold wind that's been blow...

Dec 19, 2022