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These kids were ready to cheer on their Roos, and it must have worked because Quesnel won it in overtime to force a deciding Game 3 at West Fraser Centre. (Quesnel Kangaroos photo)

OT heroics for Quesnel bring Roos fans to their feet

Hometown Kangaroos force a deciding CIHL championship game

These kids were ready to cheer on their Roos, and it must have worked because Quesnel won it in overtime to force a deciding Game 3 at West Fraser Centre. (Quesnel Kangaroos photo)
Quesnel's Laura Balkwill (left) and Vancouver Island's Sophia Ledingham came 3rd and 2nd respectively in the Youth Women (16-18) Sprint division at the Biathlon BC Championships held in Prince George. (Frank Peebles photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)

Quesnel biathletes shot through the weather

Biathlon BC championships had CSTC athletes on podium

Quesnel's Laura Balkwill (left) and Vancouver Island's Sophia Ledingham came 3rd and 2nd respectively in the Youth Women (16-18) Sprint division at the Biathlon BC Championships held in Prince George. (Frank Peebles photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)
Sisters Creek Recreation Site Accessible Trail is a popular local tourism and nature location, but is close to old gravel pits that may be reactivated. (Cariboo Regional District photo)

Residents think gravel plan is pit-iful

Petition protests Sisters Creek gravel site

Sisters Creek Recreation Site Accessible Trail is a popular local tourism and nature location, but is close to old gravel pits that may be reactivated. (Cariboo Regional District photo)
Nixen Baidwan celebrated his own birthday by donating pizza to the homeless at Seasons House. (Bindy Baidwan photo)

Feeding Quesnel’s homeless not pie in the sky

Boy turns nine, donates pizza to Seasons House

Nixen Baidwan celebrated his own birthday by donating pizza to the homeless at Seasons House. (Bindy Baidwan photo)
The hit musical Mamma Mia! is presented by the Correlieu Players at the Chuck Mobley Theatre.

Mamma Mia! Here we go again at Correlieu in Quesnel

Take a chance on this high school musical

The hit musical Mamma Mia! is presented by the Correlieu Players at the Chuck Mobley Theatre.
Log yard at Canfor’s Houston sawmill which is closing in April 2023, idling more than 300 employees and many more in the trucking and logging sectors. (Angelique Houlihan photo/Houston Today)

Houston’s mayor makes pitch for economic assistance

The forestry-dependent community in northwestern B.C. is about to lose its major employer

Log yard at Canfor’s Houston sawmill which is closing in April 2023, idling more than 300 employees and many more in the trucking and logging sectors. (Angelique Houlihan photo/Houston Today)
Cariboo-Prince George Conservative MP Todd Doherty speaks in the House Of Commons. (Hansard image)

Quesnel’s MP: stop hitting healthcare workers

Doherty introduces legislation to protect frontline workers

Cariboo-Prince George Conservative MP Todd Doherty speaks in the House Of Commons. (Hansard image)
Danny Bell & His Disappointments are touring northern B.C., including dates in Wells, Williams Lake and Quesnel before heading home to Prince George. (Noah MacLeod photo)

No disappointment in Disappointments

PG musical personality Danny Bell tours the Cariboo

Danny Bell & His Disappointments are touring northern B.C., including dates in Wells, Williams Lake and Quesnel before heading home to Prince George. (Noah MacLeod photo)
Weighing five pounds, nine ounces, a baby boy was born in a minivan Feb. 28, en route to the hospital in Williams Lake. (Photo submitted)

Cariboo woman delivers baby in minivan en route to hospital

It was a third baby for Brittany Lee of Likely, B.C.

Weighing five pounds, nine ounces, a baby boy was born in a minivan Feb. 28, en route to the hospital in Williams Lake. (Photo submitted)
Alexis Mackenzie is the QFPA Dance Performer of the Year for 2023. This local performer is awarded a trophy, scholarship, and professional photo shoot donated by Wild x Darling. (Photo by Clarke Action Photography)

Dancers stretch and leap to Quesnel podium

Quesnel Performing Arts Festival underway with dance elements

Alexis Mackenzie is the QFPA Dance Performer of the Year for 2023. This local performer is awarded a trophy, scholarship, and professional photo shoot donated by Wild x Darling. (Photo by Clarke Action Photography)
Keith Jackson’s team of Correlieu Secondary School Jr. Boys basketball players won the North-Central Zone championship and represented the region at the provincial tournament. (Photo submitted)

Correlieu’s Jr. Boys basketball team netted Zone victory for Quesnel

Coyotes got to represent the region at the BC Jr. Boys provincials

Keith Jackson’s team of Correlieu Secondary School Jr. Boys basketball players won the North-Central Zone championship and represented the region at the provincial tournament. (Photo submitted)
Trevor Pierce was an avid outdoor enthusiast and snowmobiler. (Photo submitted)

Deadly snowmobile accident inspires Williams Lake widow to call for better ramp safety

Shanelle Pierce said her husband was fatally injured loading his snowmobile

Trevor Pierce was an avid outdoor enthusiast and snowmobiler. (Photo submitted)
Barkerville boss Kate Cox won the 2023 Business Woman of the Year for the BC tourism industry at the BC Tourism & Hospitality Conference gala held in Prince George. (Photo submitted)

Barkerville boss leads tourism women

Kate Cox was award Business Woman of the Year for BC tourism sector

Barkerville boss Kate Cox won the 2023 Business Woman of the Year for the BC tourism industry at the BC Tourism & Hospitality Conference gala held in Prince George. (Photo submitted)
Danny Bell & His Disappointments are touring northern B.C., including dates in Wells, Williams Lake and Quesnel before heading home to Prince George. (Noah MacLeod photo)

No disappointment in Disappointments in Quesnel

PG music personality Danny Bell tours the Cariboo

Danny Bell & His Disappointments are touring northern B.C., including dates in Wells, Williams Lake and Quesnel before heading home to Prince George. (Noah MacLeod photo)
In 2018, Viola Desmond was celebrated on the Canadian $10 bill. Why is she featured on this banknote? (Government of Canada photo)

QUIZ: How much do you know about accomplishments by Canadian women?

March 8 is International Women’s Day

In 2018, Viola Desmond was celebrated on the Canadian $10 bill. Why is she featured on this banknote? (Government of Canada photo)
Cariboo Memorial Hospital in Williams Lake. (Monica Lamb-Yorski photo - Williams Lake Tribune)

Williams Lake city council asks Interior Health for truth, answers on doctors’ departures

Council also wants meetings with IH and B.C.’s health minister

Cariboo Memorial Hospital in Williams Lake. (Monica Lamb-Yorski photo - Williams Lake Tribune)
Jacob Hes was a regular member of the RCMP in E Division at the time of the alleged offences. (Contributed to Black Press Media)

Former Fort St. James Mountie charged with historic sex assault of young teen

Jacob Hes charged with sexual assault and sexual interference

Jacob Hes was a regular member of the RCMP in E Division at the time of the alleged offences. (Contributed to Black Press Media)
RCMP retired Sgt. Stuart Murray stands on guard by the commemorative placard explaining the relationship between the Lhtako Dene Nation and City of Quesnel as co-hosts of the 2024 BC Winter Games. (Frank Peebles photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)

Lhtako and Quesnel equal Games hosts

First Nation and municipality share the BCWG billing

RCMP retired Sgt. Stuart Murray stands on guard by the commemorative placard explaining the relationship between the Lhtako Dene Nation and City of Quesnel as co-hosts of the 2024 BC Winter Games. (Frank Peebles photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)
Jessica James, who grew up in Nimpo Lake, B.C., is the star aviator in History’s reality show Lost Car Rescue, with Season 2 to be released this Spring. (Jeff Topham photo)

Nimpo Lake pilot happy to be right where she is, taking off in Season 2 of Lost Car Rescue

Female aviators might still be a rarity, but growing up in Nimpo Lake, it came naturally to James

Jessica James, who grew up in Nimpo Lake, B.C., is the star aviator in History’s reality show Lost Car Rescue, with Season 2 to be released this Spring. (Jeff Topham photo)
The Quesnel Lions Club presents a cash donation to the city's Special Olympics program. (Photo submitted)

Lions Club supports Quesnel’s award-winning Special Olympians

Cash donation to local Special Olympics programs

The Quesnel Lions Club presents a cash donation to the city's Special Olympics program. (Photo submitted)