Local News

BC Hydro crews will replace 230 power poles in Prince George this year.

Expected record-high temperatures this week has prompted Avalanche Canada to issue a special warning for its entire region - from the Yukon to the U.S. border and from the Pacific to the Rockies.

Prince George RCMP's search for a wanted man netted a couple of additional arrests on Monday.

A 44-year-old Prince George man has been charged with possession of stolen property after Prince George RCMP executed a search warrant on a Stoner area home on Sunday.

Mackenzie wood manufacturer East Fraser Fiber Co. Ltd. was fined $65,235.12 by WorkSafeBC after a worker suffered serious injuries to her arm when she reached across a ripsaw to clear a piece of wood.

WorkSafeBC has fined Fort St. James sawmill Apollo Forest Products Ltd. $75,000 after an inspector caught a worker using a wooden stick to clear a jam from the cutter heads of a planer.

A Fort St. James sawmill has been fined $75,000 for hazardous accumulations of wood dust.

WorkSafeBC has fined a Vanderhoof finger joint plant $48,401.84 for hazardous accumulations of wood dust.

WorkSafeBC has fined a Quesnel wood products manufacturer for high accumulations of combustible wood dust. C&C Wood Products Ltd. was levied a penalty of $68,121.

WorkSafeBC tripled the fine levied against a Quesnel-based roofing company for a repeat violation of the agency's fall protection regulations. North Central Roofing Ltd.