Category Archives: Cariboo Region
Runway facelift, lighting upgrades complete for South Cariboo Regional Airport
108 MILE HOUSE, B.C. - Upgrades for the South Cariboo Regional Airport have wrapped up, with the newly resurfaced runway in operation. According to a release from the Cariboo Regional District, it was...
Jun 14, 2024
Trailer pump damaged, fence cut at BC Wildfire Service compound north of Williams Lake
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Williams Lake RCMP are investigating after a BC Wildfire Service compound north of the city was vandalized. RCMP say officers were told of a mischief report to the property near ...
Jun 12, 2024
Taxi passenger killed in collision on Highway 97 south of Clinton
CLINTON, B.C. - BC Highway Patrol is investigation a collision on Highway 97 south of Clinton that took one life. Clinton RCMP say they received the report of a collision between a northbound taxi and...
Jun 07, 2024
Cariboo Memorial Hospital's emergency department experiences fourth temporary closure of the year
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - It's the fourth temporary closure of the emergency department at Cariboo Memorial Hospital in Williams Lake in 2024. From 7:30 p.m. Wednesday (June 5) to 7:30a.m. Thursday, Inter...
Jun 06, 2024
Quesnel mayor files petition with BC Supreme Court to have sanctions dropped
QUESNEL, B.C. - Quesnel Mayor Ron Paull has filed a petition with the BC Supreme Court to have sanctions against him dropped.On April 30, Quesnel city council voted unanimously to censure Paull, remov...
Jun 04, 2024
Two men arrested in separate Quesnel drug busts
QUESNEL, B.C. - Mounties in Quesnel arrested two men in a pair of recent drug busts.The first bust occurred on May 30 after the Quesnel RCMP Crime Reduction Unit executed two search warrants on a resi...
Jun 04, 2024
Williams Lake First Nation plans dig for remains at ex-school, signs deal with RCMP, province
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The British Columbia government says the Williams Lake First Nation is planning to excavate the site of a former residential school to recover possible human remains and has sign...
Jun 03, 2024
Two men arrested, hundreds of grams of drugs seized after two searches in Quesnel
QUESNEL, B.C. - Two men were arrested in Quesnel over a two-day stretch after police seized cash, drugs and illegal cigarettes. On Thursday (May 30), Quesnel RCMP executed two search warrants at home ...
Jun 03, 2024
Strike action begins at Gibraltar Copper Mine
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Workers at Gibraltar Copper Mine near McLeese Lake have begun strike action as of June 1, 2024."A fair collective agreement, with wages and benefits that reflect the significant ...
Jun 01, 2024
Tobiano, Savona and Cherry Creek turn into political battleground with Doerkson's defection
KAMLOOPS - An incumbent BC United MLA has crossed the floor to the BC Conservatives, just months before British Columbians head to the polls this October. Lorne Doerkson, the MLA for the Cariboo-Chilc...
May 31, 2024
