Tumbler Ridge

A 24-year-old man died Wednesday in a vehicle collision at Mile 64 north of Fort St. John on the Alaska Highway, police said, just days after new data showed that the road is one of British Columbia's deadliest.

An opposition critic says the provincial energy minister's trip north to announce the start of construction on a wind project is "cover" against claims that the Site C dam will kill the wind power industry in B.C. B.C.

Fort St. John, Dawson Creek, Chetwynd and Tumbler Ridge have all seen an increase in population

In 2012, Rich McCrea got a call from a crew working on a Shell excavation project that had turned up an interesting looking stone.

Blair Lekstrom, an advisor to HD Mining, said that he hoped unions would “accept” the use of temporary foreign workers in their proposed Murray River coal mine. That hope seems to be deflated, as Stephen Hunt, the Director of the B.C.

The province is accepting comments until today on a proposal for the Murray River coal river mine that HD Mining wants to build near Tumbler Ridge.

Project slated to bring 175 jobs during construction and 9 permanent jobs when it becomes operational at the end of 2016; "Once Site C out of the way, new demand going to be met by the IPPs” — Bennett

Visit the Great Wall of China sometime in the next few years, and you might see signs advertising Tumbler Ridge.

Two 'shovel ready' projects could provide desperately-needed jobs for community reeling from mine closures

The following statements are the original, unedited responses from Tumbler Ridge mayor and District Council candidates to questions posed by the Alaska Highway News.