Wildfire Watch
Wildfire 100 kilometres west of Williams Lake grows to more than 100 hectares
ALEXIS CREEK, B.C. - An out-of-control wildfire south of the Cariboo community of Alexis Creek has grown to 101 hectares. The BC Wildfire Service says the fire nearly 100 kilometres west of Williams Lake was discovered shortly after 3:00 p.m. Friday (May 3). Its approximate location is one kilometre northwest of Zenzac...
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Canucks eliminate the Predators with 1-0 win in Game 6
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Pius Suter scored with 1:39 left and the Vancouver Canucks advanced to the second round of the NHL playoffs with a 1-0 victory over the Nashville Predators on Friday night in Game 6. Nashville had a final chance to force overtime with a power play with 33.9 seconds left after Elias Lindholm was ...
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CKPG Today Northern FanCon
Celebrating 10 years of Northern FanCon with Ming Chen and Norm Coyne
A decade is a long time! Northern FanCon has reached that milestone as it runs its 10th Anniversary event this weekend at the CN Centre and Kin Arenas. Learn about who's in town for the big celebration from the event creator Norm Coyne and acclaimed actor Ming Chen who is no stranger to Prince George! You can get your ...
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CKPG Today Northern FanCon
Meet 'The Mountie' ahead of Primetime Wrestling at Northern FanCon on Saturday night
There are some BIG names coming to help celebrate 10 years of Northern FanCon in Prince George this weekend! While there are many on the showbiz side of things, there are also many on the wrestling side of things ready to bring a major atmosphere under the Saturday night lights! Meet 'The Mountie' Jacques Rougeau longt...
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Kodiaks Volleyball
Kodiaks Volleyball seeks to repeat as provincial champs
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LOCAL ARCHERY
Local archer off to El Salvador to compete in the Youth and Masters Pan American Championships
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National Red Dress Day
PGSO dedicates season's final performance to victims of Highway of Tears
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The Force visits the hospital
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Cops for Cancer launches 23rd Tour de North
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Kodiaks Volleyball
Kodiaks Volleyball seeks to repeat as provincial champs
PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George Kodiaks Red U16 Girls Volleyball team is looking to repeat as provincial champions, as the team is currently battling some of the province's best teams in Abbotsford. While there are 75 girls teams, the Kodiaks are in Division 1 where they are competing against 16 other teams. While th...
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LOCAL ARCHERY
Local archer off to El Salvador to compete in the Youth and Masters Pan American Championships
PRINCE GEORGE - Seth Johnson wasn't always into Archery.He actually grew up doing motocross sports. It wasn't until his dad suggested the sport that Seth really got into it.Off the bat, he was a natural. His dad being a former archer himself saw the talent in his son. And with days of training at the outdoor range and ...
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National Red Dress Day
PGSO dedicates season's final performance to victims of Highway of Tears
PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George Symphony Orchestra's (PGSO) final performance of the 2023-34 season is coming up on May 5, which is also National Red Dress Day. To honour the day and everything it represents, the PGSO is dedicating its performance to the victims of the Highway of Tears."For the Prince George Sym...
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The Force visits the hospital
PRINCE GEORGE - In a galaxy far, far away, Captain Rex the clone trooper, a Jedi and Imperial Officer and a Jawa descended on a little-known place known as Nicholas' room at the University Hospital of Northern BC. A day before May the 4th. "Mostly just seeing all the characters is really cool and stuff." Of c...
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Northern BC
WARRANT ISSUED
Prince George man believed to be in Nanaimo area wanted by RCMP
NANAIMO - A northern B.C. man wanted on multiple domestic violence-related charges is believed to be on the mid-Island.Jayson Lee Delorme, 41, is thought to be travelling in the Nanaimo, Port Alberni or Duncan area of Vancouver Island and faces a long list of charges stemming from incidents in Prince George and Fort St...
May 01, 2024
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Motorcycle safety
ICBC preaches motorcycle safety
PRINCE GEORGE - With spring upon us and motorcycles back on our roads, ICBC is urging riders and drivers to take the proper steps to make sure we all stay safe.Motorcyclists are at a much higher risk of being injured in a crash than drivers due to their lack of protection. ICBC says the average age of a motorcyclist in...
Apr 30, 2024
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Period Promise is back
NORTHERN BC - United Way British Columbia is working with communities in BC's North, Interior, Lower Mainland and Central & Northern Vancouver Island, wants to make it easier for people who menstruate to get through their periods with dignity. United Way BC's 2024 Period Promise campaign, presented by Pacific Blue ...
Apr 29, 2024
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Weather
Potential for heavy snow east of the Pine Pass
PINE PASS -Old Man Winter may rear its head again Monday.Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement with potential for heavy snow in the Peace River District and Highway 97, east of the Pine Pass."Snowfall accumulation across the regions will be highly variable with higher accumulations more likely ...
Apr 29, 2024
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Cariboo Region
Wildfire Watch
Wildfire 100 kilometres west of Williams Lake grows to more than 100 hectares
ALEXIS CREEK, B.C. - An out-of-control wildfire south of the Cariboo community of Alexis Creek has grown to 101 hectares. The BC Wildfire Service says the fire nearly 100 kilometres west of Williams Lake was discovered shortly after 3:00 p.m. Friday (May 3). Its approximate location is one kilometre northwest of Zenzac...
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Quesnel City Council censures and sanctions Mayor Ron Paull
QUESNEL - Quesnel City Council moved to sanction and censure Mayor Ron Paull at Tuesday's council meeting for what the city calls "jeopardizing Indigenous relations with the Lhtako Dene Nation and surrounding Indigenous communities".Censure and sanctions were taken by council in response to the Mayor taking a...
May 01, 2024
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MVI
Driver 'critically injured' in fiery Highway 97 crash
WILLIAMS LAKE - Update: The highway has reopened to single-lane alternating traffic.Earlier:Two people were injured - one critically - in a two-vehicle collision on Highway 97 at Lynes Creek Road, about 10 kilometres north of Wildwood.North District RCMP say the crash occurred shortly after 9 a.m. on Tuesday April 30.&...
Apr 30, 2024
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Cariboo Memorial Closure
Cariboo Memorial Hospital closed early Tuesday morning due to 'limited nursing availability'
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Emergency services will be unavailable in Williams Lake to start Tuesday (April 30) morning. In a notice late Monday (April 29) afternoon, Interior Health says the emergency department at Cariboo Memorial Hospital would be closed from 6:30 p.m. Monday to 7:30 a.m. due to "limited nursing avai...
Apr 30, 2024
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Sports
LOCAL ARCHERY
Local archer off to El Salvador to compete in the Youth and Masters Pan American Championships
PRINCE GEORGE - Seth Johnson wasn't always into Archery.He actually grew up doing motocross sports. It wasn't until his dad suggested the sport that Seth really got into it.Off the bat, he was a natural. His dad being a former archer himself saw the talent in his son. And with days of training at the outdoor range and ...
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Back to Prince George: Cougars force game six after 6-1 win in Portland
PORTLAND - The Prince George Cougars have sent the Western Hockey League (WHL) Western Conference Finals back up north of the border. The Cougars blew out the Portland Winterhawks 6-1 on the road Thursday (May 2) night in game five of the WHL Western Conference Finals. They now trail the best-of-seven series 3-2. In a ...
May 03, 2024
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Cougars on the brink of elimination after 5-2 loss to Winterhawks in game four
PORTLAND - It's do or die for the Prince George Cougars for the rest of the Western Hockey League (WHL) Western Conference Finals. The Cougars were put on the brink of elimination Wednesday (May 1) night, falling to the Portland Winterhawks on the road in game four by a score of 5-2. They now trail the best-of-seven se...
May 02, 2024
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Canada
Judge to rule on validity of Quebec language law because it delays English verdicts
MONTREAL - A Quebec court judge will decide whether the province's new language reform is constitutional because a section of the law systematically delays the delivery of verdicts handed down in English. Judge Dennis Galiatsatos raised the question on his own initiative while overseeing a case involving a woman charge...
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Red dresses to make fashion statement about missing and murdered Indigenous women
Models in uniquely designed red dresses are taking to the runway in British Columbia this weekend to make a powerful fashion statement about missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people. "The stories that come out through the fashion are deeply moving," says Kim Coltman, organizer of th...
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Parliamentary report on Emergencies Act decision is 18 months past due - and counting
OTTAWA - For a committee struck to review an emergency, the approach to reporting back to Canadians has been less than urgent. The erstwhile group of senators and MPs studying the federal government's invocation of the Emergencies Act over the "Freedom Convoy" was supposed to present its findings in December...
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Man charged with second-degree murder in White Rock, B.C., stabbing: RCMP
WHITE ROCK, B.C. - Mounties say a man has been charged with second-degree murder in a fatal stabbing that shook the community of White Rock, B.C., last month. A statement from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says 27-year-old Dimitri Hyacinth from nearby Surrey is accused of killing Kulwinder Singh Sohi on A...
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A timeline about the killing of B.C. Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar
Police in British Columbia say they have charged three Indian nationals with the killing of Sikh activist and gurdwara leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C., last year. Here is a timeline related to the killing, which triggered a diplomatic dispute between Canada and India. 2023 June 18 - Hardeep Singh Nijjar is ...
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Fisheries Department warns boaters against disturbing orphan B.C. killer whale calf
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - The Fisheries Department says its monitoring and patrolling ocean waters off northwest Vancouver Island to ensure boat traffic doesn't interfere with an orphan killer whale calf's ability to reunite with her extended family. The Fisheries Department says in a statement it will be monitoring the locatio...
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World
Snakes almost on a plane: TSA discovers a bag with small snakes in passenger's pants
MIAMI (AP) - Airport security officers in Miami found a slithering surprise last week - a bag of snakes hidden in a passenger's pants. According to an X post by the Transportation Security Administration, officers at the Miami International Airport found the small bag of snakes hidden in a passenger's trousers on April...
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Mexican officials say 3 bodies recovered in Baja California during search for 3 missing foreigners
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican authorities said Friday that three bodies were recovered in an area of Baja California near where two Australians and an American went missing last weekend. The state prosecutors office did not say whether the bodies were those of the three foreigners, but said the bodies were discovered duri...
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The Lakers fire coach Darvin Ham after just 2 seasons in charge and 1st-round playoff exit
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Lakers fired coach Darvin Ham on Friday after just two seasons in charge. The Lakers announced on social media that they were dismissing Ham four days after their season ended with a first-round playoff loss to Denver in five games. Ham led Los Angeles to the Western Conference finals...
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