In the middle of March, Gordon Mohs of Mission reached out to The Citizen, wanting to let people know he may have inadvertently exposed local residents to COVID-19 during a recent business trip.
Christine Hinzmann’s story, “B.C. man worried he spread COVID-19 to PG,” was the most-read story on our website in 2020. It received 38,040 page views this year.
To put that number into context, The Citizen’s website averaged about 40,000 page views per day in 2020.
But our online readers didn’t just want to know about the pandemic this year.
The second most-read story of 2020 on The Citizen website was “BC Hydro giving three month credit,” receiving 32,925 page views.
In descending order, the rest of the top-10 most-read stories on our website in 2020 were:
- Two Northern B.C. residents infected with COVID-19 - 30,559 page views.
- Started black bear leaves woman with bite to arm - 25,089 page views.
- City golf courses open for business - 22,143 page views.
- Costco customers asked to wear face masks - 21,502 page views.
- Former Spruce Kings captain Staley dies at 25 - 20,221 page views.
- Canfor to reopen two area sawmills - 20,148 page views.
- Bridge at protest site damaged, tires spiked - 18,685 page views.
- P.G. truck stop provides respite for long-haul drivers - 18,261 page views.
