Safety and access improvements are being made to Central Street West and Highway 97, to provide better traffic flow for the local community.

Effective at 8 a.m. PDT on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, an area restriction order will be in place for Crown Land in the vicinity of the Hugh Allen Creek wildfire, located about 60 kilometres southeast of the Village of Valemount on the east side of Kinbasket Lake.

The Province is warning the public not to release aquarium fish into streams, rivers or lakes, after biologists discovered an invasive species breeding in a local stream.

Effective at noon Pacific time on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, all open burning — including campfires, Category 2 open burns and Category 3 open burns — will be prohibited throughout the Omineca region within the Prince George Fire Centre’s jurisdiction, to help prevent human-caused wildfires and protect public safety.

More students in northern B.C. will soon have access to training to become early childhood educators (ECEs), thanks to an expansion of the program at the College of New Caledonia (CNC).

Smoke originating from the Comstock Lake wildfire, about 100 kilometres west of Hixon, has drifted north and is now visible throughout the Prince George area.

The BC Wildfire Service is currently responding to 72 new wildfires in the Prince George and Northwest fire centres, all of which started on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

Graduate students at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) are getting support to pursue advanced degrees in fields like science and engineering, thanks to a new graduate student scholarship fund.