Health

Northern Medical Program seeking volunteer patients

PRINCE GEORGE - Future doctors in the UBC Northern Medical Program at UNBC are hoping for some help from the public in the form of volunteer patients.Students in the UBC Northern Medical Program use v...

Mar 02, 2023

Cancer care gets boost in BC amidst lengthy wait times

PRINCE GEORGE - For most of the day at the BC Cancer Agency's Centre for the North, the traffic at the front doors is steady as patients make their way in or out of the building.The number of folks se...

Feb 27, 2023

To Your Health: Falls and Bruises

PRINCE GEORGE - With the freeze/thaw winter weather Prince George has been experiencing, there has been lots of ice out on the roads and sidewalks, meaning slips and falls are more common than not, le...

Feb 22, 2023

'Lives are at risk': Mackenzie residents struggle with sparse ambulance coverage

MACKENZIE - After many other communities across BC recently received boosts in ambulance coverage from the province, the community of Mackenzie remains in limbo.According to Mayor Joan Atkinson, the c...

Feb 14, 2023

CSFS has new funds for FASD families

PRINCE GEORGE - Carrier Sekani Family Services is working with the Vancouver Foundation and the Ministry of Children and Family Development to distribute funds to families of children with Fetal Alcoh...

Feb 09, 2023

Local paediatrician warns of incoming flu surge for Northern BC kids

PRINCE GEORGE - Just as thousands of children head back to the classroom, a local paediatrician is warning that another flu surge could be on the way.Dr. Kirsten Miller, a local paediatrician said alt...

Jan 03, 2023

BCEHS unable to proceed with patient transfers to Lower Mainland due to winter storm

PRINCE GEORGE - The severe winter storm hitting BC's coast has forced BC Emergency Health Services into pausing patient transfers until conditions improve.In a statement to CKPG News, BCEHS said condi...

Dec 23, 2022

Kordyban Lodge approaching a decade

PRINCE GEORGE - "Well, you get your annual checkups and you get the [finger waggle]," explains Bill Howell, a resident of FCort St. James. "That's where they found it." That was June. When Howell bega...

Dec 09, 2022

Chillin' For Charity Fundraiser nets 10k for Cardiac Care in the North

PRINCE GEORGE- In temperatures like this, plunging into ice water is probably not on the top of anyone's to do list... but that was exactly the case last Saturday night outside the CN Centre, where pa...

Nov 17, 2022

Nationwide test of emergency alert system set for Wednesday

NANAIMO - A test of Canada's emergency alert system will take place Wednesday.Phones will buzz and alerts will air on television and radio on Wednesday, Nov 16 at 1:55 p.m. to test the national Alert ...

Nov 16, 2022