Local News

Grant Sopp has been camped out in a tent at the College of New Caledonia with his wife Katie and their dog for a week now and he's not expecting to go back home to Williams Lake anytime soon.

Frank Bellerose was hoping the winds of change in Williams Lake would not bring wildfire smoke his way. But there was no way to avoid it Saturday evening; the wind shifted and within a few hours he got the news he has been fearing all week.

It was 1:14 p.m. on Thursday, July 6, when the B.C. Wildfire Service warned on Twitter about a two-hectare fire, about the size of two playing fields, that was burning just west of 100 Mile House.

The GM dealers of Northern B.C. have joined forces to help those displaced by the Cariboo wildfires who have taken refuge in Prince George.

Miles St. Amand is hustling at Sun Valley Gas just off Highway 97 in Williams Lake. That's because there are only three gas pump jockeys at this full-service station, which normally has a contingent of 12 or 15.

Quesnel and area businesses owners and tourism operators are feeling the impact from the ongoing wildfires.

One local man spends his volunteer hours supporting the local police as best he can.

A B.C. Supreme Court Justice has waived a $125,000 fine a lower-court judge levied against Rio Tinto Alcan for unlawfully lowering the Kemano River and destroying salmon in the process.

The Prince George Cougars Alumni Association and Cougars Society are teaming up and the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation to help to ease the wildfire situation for thousands of B.C. residents displaced from their homes.

A Fraser Lake man is missing and could be in Prince George. Jerry Keith Kreitz, 42, was last seen in the community 150 kilometres west of Prince George the morning of Fri., July 7.