Charlie Lake

The Charlie Lake Store has a new owner, and renovations are underway to return the Alaska Highway service station back into a bustling centre of business.

Taylor Fire Chief Edward Albury is taking the helm at the Charlie Lake fire hall. Albury starts his new job as fire chief for the department on Sept. 24, the Peace River Regional District announced Thursday.

A 37-year-old woman is dead after a head-on collision between a sedan and logging truck on the Alaska Highway Tuesday afternoon. Emergency crews were called to the scene roughly 15 kilometres north of Fort St.

Fort St. John RCMP continue to investigate a fatal motorcycle accident on Highway 29 last weekend. Emergency crews were called out to the scene of the single-vehicle accident near the Bennett Road between 4 and 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 18.

Fort St. John RCMP are investigating after a 23-year-old man was killed in a motorcycle accident Saturday. The accident happened sometime between 4 and 6 p.m. on Highway 29, according to RCMP.

Two Charlie Lake firefighters are off to the provincial wildfire fight in Burns Lake.

The Charlie Lake fire department has responded to a number of incidents over the last few weeks. On July 30, firefighters were called to a structure fire at the Canfor lumber mill around 7:30 p.m.

Patrick McPhillips in the interim fire chief of the Charlie Lake Fire Department. McPhillips comes with a 35-year career with Coquitlam Fire/Rescue, according to the Peace River Regional District.

Another Peace Region summer is blooming into August, and with it comes everybody's most hated blooms in Charlie Lake: algae.

Three years ago, you'd be hard pressed to get a sentence out of Braiden Markwick. The Charlie Lake teen was skipping school, failing class, drinking and doing drugs.