First Nations

Action plan on missing, murdered Indigenous women coming by June: Bennett

OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett says the federal government will release by June 2020 its plan to respond to the final report of the inquiry into missing an...

Dec 04, 2019

Lheidli T'enneh makes history

PRINCE GEORGE - It was history in the making. For the first time in 73 years, the Lheidli T'enneh hosted a potlatch, or Baht'lats, in the House of Ancestors. The occasion was used to forge a strong an...

Nov 29, 2019

Metis veterans get long-awaited recognition ahead of Remembrance Day

OTTAWA - Metis contributions to Canada's Second World War effort are being recognized at a special ceremony in the nation's capital today. The ceremony comes two months after the federal governme...

Nov 08, 2019

1,000 Ravens campaign launched

PRINCE GEORGE - Over the next year, small paper ravens will be appearing at the University of Northern BC. The Ravens campaign was launched today as "a new project to engage the entire university comm...

Sep 25, 2019 1,000 Ravens

New economic development opportunity?

PRINCE GEORGE - A familiar face is heading up a special Assembly of First Nations Chiefs Committee on Cannabis, a committee that arose from a national cannabis summit earlier this year. Terry Teegee w...

Sep 19, 2019 cannabis retail

AFN outlines First Nations election priorities ahead of fall vote

OTTAWA - Canada has been treating Indigenous issues as higher priorities since the last federal election but more work needs to be done, says Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde. The...

Sep 09, 2019

Meet SD 57's 1st Director of Aboriginal Education

PRINCE GEORGE - Pam Spooner is on the job today, arriving back in the city just yesterday to assume her new position as the Director of Aboriginal Education for School District 57. Her job will be to ...

Aug 29, 2019 Pam Spooner

Indigenous families the focus of new Parents Legal Centre

PRINCE GEORGE - A Parents Legal Centre officially opened in Prince George today. The centre deals with families facing child protection matters in and around the city.PLC's aim to improve the outcomes...

Aug 23, 2019

Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs ask to stop harvesting sockeye

PRINCE GEORGE - Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs have asked their First Nation and neighbouring Nations to stop harvesting sockeye salmon effective Sunday, July 28th.The decision comes as salmon returns...

Jul 26, 2019

Alberta RCMP apologize for poor investigation into Indigenous woman's death

EDMONTON - The commanding officer of the RCMP in Alberta has apologized to the family of an Indigenous woman who disappeared nine years ago and whose killer has never been found.Amber Tuccaro was 20 y...

Jul 25, 2019 Amber Tuccaro