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A Beech King Air 200 came down and struck vehicles on Foothills Boulevard, and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada confirmed it is deploying a team of investigators to assess the crash site. A team of investigators will be deployed to Prince George where they will assess the occurrence after the Transportation Safety Board of Canada was notified of an emergency landing and collision with vehicles. RCMP have cordoned off the area and continue to ask residents to stay away while the investigation unfolds, a reminder of how close YXS flight paths run to city traffic corridors.
At the August 17 council meeting, staff reported that senior-government downloading — costs tied to provincial responsibilities that end up on the municipal books — hit the city hard between 2020 and 2024. Between 2020 and 2024, the City incurred more than $19 million related to housing, social services, and mental health and addictions, and more than $7 million due to legislative and regulatory changes. Council directed that the findings be carried forward as ammunition when the Union of BC Municipalities convention meets next month, ahead of October's civic election.
Council gave first three readings to changes in the Zoning Bylaw meant to implement recommendations from the city's Housing Action Implementation Strategy. The changes implement recommendations from the Housing Action Implementation Strategy Initiative project, making it easier to implement standardized plans and provincial small-scale multi-unit housing legislation and to support its development in Prince George. For anyone eyeing a duplex, triplex or laneway build, this is the regulatory groundwork making that easier city-wide.
Council approved a project to extend the city's underground fibre optic cable network to serve Northern Health. Prince George City Council approved a project to add a new fibre optic cable for Northern Health. It's a small-sounding item with real stakes — faster, more reliable data links matter for hospital and clinic operations across the north, and it shows the city's utility infrastructure doing double duty for regional health services.
Trade negotiations between Ottawa and Washington have broken down, with President Trump ramping up pressure on Canada while facing pushback at home over an expanding trade fight. The fallout from the collapse of trade talks between Canada and the United States is reverberating on both sides of the border, with U.S. President Donald Trump escalating his rhetoric while facing growing opposition to a broader trade war at home. Reports indicate Trump is now threatening tariffs as high as 50% on autos and trucks, with Ontario's premier expected to weigh in publicly on the fallout.
Members of the BC General Employees' Union's Community Bargaining Association, representing certain health-care workers, have voted decisively in favour of job action after contract talks stalled. The BC General Employees' Union says members of the Community Bargaining Association, representing certain health-care workers, have voted 92.3 per cent in favour of strike action following an "impasse" in contract talks. A strike would ripple through community health services across the province, so it's one to watch for anyone relying on those workers.
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