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BC RCMP deploy to provide support in response to wildfire impacts…
BC NEWS Friday, August 18, 2023 As an increasing number of people are being evacuated from their homes due to the various encroaching and fast-moving wildfires throughout the province, the BC RCMP is deploying additional resources to secure evacuated areas. Since April, the BC RCMP has been engaged with various natural disasters across the province…
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Police investigating early morning shooting in Kamloops…
BC NEWS, KAMLOOPS Friday, August 18, 2023 Kamloops RCMP frontline officers are on scene at a Brentwood Avenue residence where one man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries earlier today. On Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, just after 1 a.m., police were called to the area for a report of shots heard and a person…
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BC declares province wide State of Emergency…
BC NEWS Friday, August 18, 2023 Premier David Eby and Bowinn Ma, Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness, have released the following statement about the current wildfire situation: “This year, we are facing the worst wildfire season ever in British Columbia. Over the past 24 hours, the situation has evolved rapidly and we are…
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PJXM Facebook Page…
Friday, August 18, 2023 The PJXM Facebook page has been temporarily turned off. It is not deleted and once Bill C-18 undergoes some changes from the inept Canadian government, PJXM will be back on Facebook hopefully before 2024 but that seems unlikely at this point. The Facebook share icon has been removed from the PJXM…
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🟡 Website maintenance…
Members be advised that the PJXM website is currently under going some changes. These changes will not impact the story you’re currently reading, however, fonts, colors and additions could change when the page reloads. The website is under going some renos and layout changes.
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WANTED – Kenton David FAST
SMITHERS, NEW HAZELTON, TERRACE Thursday, August 17, 2023 Police in New Hazelton are requesting the public’s help in locating Kenton David Fast, a man wanted for drug trafficking, firearms possession charges, failing to comply with probation order and breach of probation. Police believe that FAST may be in the Smithers area. Kenton David FAST is…
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PG Fire Department rescues 7 stranded people on river islands…
PRINCE GEORGE Thursday, August 17, 2023 Seven members of a floating party were found to be stranded on three separate islands within the Nechako and Fraser Rivers on Wednesday afternoon… At approximately 2:30 pm, PG Fire Rescue, as well as the RCMP and BC Ambulance each responded to the confluence of the Nechako and Fraser…
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Top Police Dog – MAKO of the Fort St. John RCMP
FEATURED Thursday, August 17, 2023 Each month the BC RCMP and PJXM News will feature a police dog from around the province, including the Lower Mainland District Integrated Police Dog Service (IPDS) which includes partners from the Abbotsford, Delta, New Westminster, Port Moody and West Vancouver Police departments. Today we present MAKO from the Fort St. John…
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IIO BC called to Mackenzie to investigate the death of man…
MACKENZIE Thursday, August 17, 2023 The BC RCMP has notified the Independent Investigations Office of British Columbia (IIO BC) of an incident near Mackenzie where one man has died. On Tuesday evening, the Mackenzie RCMP received a call of a man attending a pipeline site where the man made threats towards the site workers, and…
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Kitten with fighting spirit battles to stay alive…
QUESNEL Thursday, August 17, 2023 The BC SPCA is caring for Tilly, a ten-week-old kitten who was found by a good Samaritan along the shore of Dragon Lake in Quesnel, fighting to stay alive. “The finder was looking out of her bedroom window when she spotted what she thought was a kitten,” says Colby O’Flynn,…
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Williams Lake RCMP seizes suspected firearm, ammunition, and drugs during traffic stop…
WILLIAMS LAKE Wednesday, August 16, 2023 On the evening of August 3, 2023, at approximately 7:00 pm, a member of BC Highway Patrol – Williams Lake initiated a traffic stop with a speeding vehicle on Highway 97 near Knife Creek. A discussion with the driver, identified as a woman from BC in her 30’s who is known…
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Strengthening local emergency-evacuation, public-notification planning…
BC NEWS – VICTORIA Saturday, August 12, 2023 To keep people safer and more informed during emergencies, the Province is providing funding to 19 communities to develop and upgrade emergency-evacuation-route plans and public-notification plans. “Recent wildfires in remote regions of B.C. have put communities at risk of being cut off from the rest of the…
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B.C.’s highest honour recognizes 14 British Columbians…
BC NEWS Saturday, August 12, 2023 Fourteen exceptional people who have made an outstanding provincial, national or international impact will be appointed to the Order of British Columbia, the Province’s highest form of recognition and an official part of the Canadian Honours System. “As representative of the Crown in British Columbia and as chancellor of…
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New affordable rental homes opening soon in Prince George…
PRINCE GEORGE Saturday, August 12, 2023 People in need of affordable housing in Prince George will soon have access to 36 new rental homes with the purchase of a new building at 605 Quebec St. “By investing in safe and accessible buildings, we’re taking action to address the housing crisis and provide more affordable rental options to…
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Campfires are allowed in the PG Fire Centre as of August 11/23…
Effective at 12:00 (noon) on Friday, August 11, 2023, the Category 1 Open Burning (campfires) prohibition will be rescinded in the Prince George and Northwest Fire Centres. A Category 1 fire, or campfire, is defined as an open fire that burns piled material no larger than 0.5 metres high by 0.5 metres wide. The following precautions must be…
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