Williams Lake

• RCMP recover search and rescue truck stolen from Williams Lake, B.C.

  The stolen one-tonne 2020 Dodge Ram is used for search-and-rescue and highway rescue tasks and was stocked with equipment to extricate people from vehicles in the case of a crash.

  Crime

  Apr 9
  
• Search-and-rescue truck stolen in Williams Lake

  The 2020 Dodge Ram 5500 belonging to the Cariboo Search and Rescue was stolen from the team's headquarters on Mackenzie Avenue in Williams lake on Saturday. 

  Crime

  Apr 3
  
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• ‘The damage is done’: B.C. residential school survivor says Trudeau visit fixes nothing

  Frank Robbins attended the St. Joseph’s Mission residential school in the early 1960s, and says the prime minister's visit will not help him heal from the trauma he still carries.

  Canada

  Mar 30
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• Trudeau visits with B.C. residential school survivors, announces additional funding

  The visit comes about two months after Williams Lake First Nation announced it had found 93 "reflections" indicating unmarked graves of children at the school site.

  Canada

  Mar 29
• ‘We just had to trust’: Pregnant B.C. mom and baby survive high-risk heart surgery

  The surgery posed a risk of killing her unborn son, but without the procedure, Shina Biblow would die. There was only one option for the Williams Lake-area mother.

  Features

  Feb 18
• Death in Williams Lake deemed suspicious by RCMP, under investigation

  ‘Upon police arrival, an adult man was found deceased. RCMP believe the death to be suspicious.’

  Crime

  Jan 22
• Man charged with murder in disappearance of missing B.C. woman

  Police say Carmelita Abraham left Williams Lake for Quesnel on Dec. 27, and that she was reported missing on Jan. 4.

  Crime

  Jan 15
• Murder charge laid after 19-year-old woman found dead near Williams Lake, B.C.

  On Monday, Williams Lake RCMP officers received a call about a possible suspicious death at the community of Esk'etemc near Williams Lake.

  Crime

  Dec 22, 2021
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• Northern British Columbians better prepared than most for power outages

  A new BC Hydro survey gives top marks to Northern B.C. for power outage preparedness, but it also shows that about a third of the region's population has some work to do.

  Weather

  Nov 9, 2021
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• First Nation chief accuses B.C. mayor of ‘gaslighting’ after racist Facebook post deleted

  Williams Lake First Nation Chief Willie Sellars said he is disappointed that Mayor Walt Cobb hasn't stepped down.

  Politics

  Nov 3, 2021