Category Archives: Cariboo Region
Canfor announces temporary curtailments
PRINCE GEORGE - Canfor Corporation has announced more production curtailments in BC.The softwood giant has announced another round of curtailments at all but one of its BC sawmills for a one-week peri...
Apr 25, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Williams Lake RCMP plan 'Coffee with a Cop'
Williams Lake RCMP have come up with a novel idea in an effort to connect with their community. The detachment will host a "Coffee with a Cop" event on Thursday, May 2. The meet-and-greet will take pl...
Apr 24, 2019
Mudslide west of Williams Lake cleared
WILLIAMS LAKE, BC - A mudslide on Friday (April 12) which shut down the Rudy Johnson bridge west of Williams Lake has now been cleaned up, and the road is open again. Cleanup was undertaken by road ma...
Apr 13, 2019
Williams Lake Mayor Walt Cobb recovering from heart attack
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The City of Williams Lake says Mayor Walt Cobb is resting and recovering after suffering a heart attack this week. In a news release, the City says Cobb self-admitted to hospital...
Apr 12, 2019
Category 3 fire ban to go in place for Cariboo Fire Centre
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Category 3 open fires will be banned throughout the Cariboo Fire Centre come next week. In a news release, the provincial government says this is to help prevent human-caused wil...
Apr 09, 2019
West Fraser Mills in Quesnel fined $637,000 for workplace injury
QUESNEL, B.C. - A well-known lumber mill in the Cariboo region has been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars after a worker sustained serious injuries at the plant. The incident happened at West Fra...
Apr 08, 2019
One dead after Northern BC car crash
MCLEOD LAKE, B.C. - Mounties have confirmed that last night’s (April 3) collision on Highway 97 south of McLeod Lake has claimed a life. BC RCMP Cpl. Mike Halskov says first responders were disp...
Apr 04, 2019
LeBourdais wins by-election, joins Cariboo Regional District board
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The Cariboo Regional District has officially declared Maureen LeBourdais the new director for Electoral Area ‘F’. LeBourdais walked away with a big victory in the Are...
Apr 02, 2019
Delay in Elephant Hill wildfire RCMP investigation
ASHCROFT, B.C. - The RCMP investigation into the Elephant Hill wildfire in the summer of 2017 has been delayed. CFJC Today filed a Freedom of Information Request with the Ministry of Forests, Lands, N...
Apr 02, 2019
Prescribed burn slated for north of Clinton
CLINTON, B.C. - The Village of Clinton’s volunteer fire department is planning a 13-hectare prescribed burn this month. It is scheduled to take place just north of the village and, according to ...
Apr 01, 2019
