DAWSON CREEK – Peace River Regional District (PRRD) board decided at its Nov. 26 meeting to hold off on a referendum on whether to continue a building permit bylaw, choosing instead to further table the issue for...

DAWSON CREEK – Former Peace River Regional  District (PRRD) director Arthur Hadland was at the PRRD meeting Nov. 12 to advocate for a harder defence against what he says could be the downfall of the region’s agricultural...

CHETWYND – It was a general stance of dissent at a September 29 public hearing around the rezoning of a private lot next to Halfmoon Lake in Jackfish, B.C., as about 20 residents turned up to tell Electoral...

DAWSON CREEK – As a new initiative to begin tracking the cumulative effects of natural resource development on communities in northern B.C., the Cumulative and Community Impacts Research Consortium (CCIRC) is beginning to engage with stakeholders to identify...

CHARLIE LAKE – On August 27, Charlie Lake Fire Department (CLFD) celebrated a red-letter day; not only was it the department’s 35th anniversary since being built by community members in 1980, it was the first graduating class...

FORT ST. JOHN – The Peace River Regional District (PRRD) board will be asking the Provincial government to include the PRRD Electoral Area Directors in the committee which will decide how the Site C agriculture compensation fund will...

FORT ST. JOHN – At the recommendation of the Electoral Area Director’s Committee, the Peace River Regional District (PRRD) moved at its August 20 meeting to forward a letter to the Water Management Branch of the Ministry...

DAWSON CREEK – Encana’s application to be exempted from an environmental assessment (EA) certificate on the Saturn 15-27 sweet gas plant expansion project in Farmington, B.C. has been accepted by the Environmental Assessment Office (EAO), the Peace River...

FORT ST. JOHN – Saving our Northern Seniors (SONS) was at the Peace River Regional District (PRRD) board meeting on August 20 to ask the board for support in its pledge to get provincial government to build...

  FORT ST. JOHN – The Peace River Regional District is considering eliminating the building bylaw in all rural areas. Building Bylaw No. 2131, 2014, is currently split into two distinct areas, where building permits are mandatory,...