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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Effective at 12:00 (noon) on Friday, August 11, 2023, the Category 1 Open Burning (campfires) prohibition will be rescinded in the Prince George and Northwest Fire Centres.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…