Fort Nelson

Property sales in Fort Nelson dropped by nearly half in 2019. According to the BC Northern Real Estate Board, there were 48 sales worth $5.5 million in Fort Nelson last year, down from 80 worth $8.5 million in 2018.

Fort Nelson residents can expect to see their natural gas bills rise by an average of $49 in 2020. FortisBC will increase delivery and storage and transportation rates for customers in Fort Nelson effective January 1.

A Fort Nelson man is in custody after an employee at a store in Victoria was attacked with a hatchet. On Nov.

FortisBC will hold a public information session in Fort Nelson on October 16 to outline its plans to upgrade its gas meters. The utility plans to upgrade one million meters in the province starting in 2022, subject to approval from the B.C.

A depleted natural gas field in the Horn River Basin near Fort Nelson has been identified as a prospective site for a geothermal power plant.

The Fort Nelson Events Society is receiving up to $200,000 to help develop a winter tourism industry in the Northern Rockies. The society was one of 65 tourism projects to split $11.

The annual allowable cut (AAC) for the Fort Nelson timber supply region will be increased by 1 million cubic metres. It may be the only region of the province to actually see its AAC increase.

RCMP are looking for witnesses and dashcam footage as part of their investigation into a pair of suspicious deaths near Liard Hot Springs this week.

The province has announced its approval of the Fort Nelson community forest, and has added nearly one million cubic metres of timber to the region's annual cut.

Police in the Northern Rockies are investigate a pair of suspicious deaths south of Liard Hot Springs. RCMP say they were called to an area along the Alaska Highway 20 kilometres south of the popular tourist destination on July 15 around 7:19 a.m.