Environment

Whiskey Business: Is Scotch The Future Of Fuel?

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! You may not often hear the words drinking and driving paired in a positive light, but that could change soon enough as a Scottish biofuel company makes hea...

Ripley's Believe It or Not! Apr 29, 2022

Sgt. Steve Ackles named Conservation Officer of the Year

VICTORIA-Sgt. Steve Ackles is the 28th recipient of the Conservation Officer of the Year award.Awarded posthumously, Ackles's son Kyle Ackles accepted the award in Victoria on his behalf. The 2020 awa...

Apr 25, 2022

UNBC is home to 2nd Passive House

PRINCE GEORGE - It was a standard for building that came out of Austria in the late 1990s. It's called Passive House design. And it aims to make a building as energy efficient as possible. And the new...

Apr 22, 2022

Cold weather tough for bees

PRINCE GEORGE - Every year at this time, Barry Clark sets up in the parking lot of Princess Auto handing out tubes of bees. Each one contains about 6000 bees. These ones come from New Zealand, where t...

Apr 21, 2022

Geoscience BC releases local mineralogical data

NORTHERN BC - Geoscience has released more information about several years of information about mapping an area around our region for mineralogical value. The Central Interior Copper-Gold Research pro...

Apr 13, 2022

Regional District ceases tire collection

PRINCE GEORGE -- Tires were one of the first things to be recycled, beginning in the early 1990s, well before anything else. Local governments collected tires in their landfills. Enter: Tire Stewardsh...

Apr 13, 2022

Nearly 25 per cent of Interior Wet Belt forests logged according to new study

PRINCE GEORGE-A team of scientists from across the globe has published a new peer-reviewed study about the importance of protecting British Columbia's interior wetbelt (IWB). Scientists from the Unive...

Thomas Doucet Apr 13, 2022

Climate change is "existential"

PRINCE GEORGE - It was a gathering of like-minded people on a blustering lunch hour in hopes of getting the message out about the importance of sparing old-growth forests. It's been the message from C...

Apr 06, 2022

VIDEO: 90-year-old Nanaimo gardener takes landscaping to another level

NANAIMO - Maintaining his flawless half acre Nanaimo property offers Leo Katila the gift of being excited to wake up every morning.The 90-year-old's lot is often mistaken for a public park, where a wi...

Apr 04, 2022

Controlled fires scheduled to start along Tachie Highway corridor

PRINCE GEORGE - The BC Wildfire Service is planning on conducting controlled grass burns along the Tachie Highway corridor.These burns are anticipated to start today (Mar.28) and will be completed int...

Mar 28, 2022