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Jan 15, 2024 | 
nelsonstar.com | Morgan Powell
The B.C. Supreme Court trial of three Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline opponents including prominent Witsuwit’en leader Sleydo’ (Molly Wickham) continues in Smithers this week.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
interior-news.com | Morgan Powell
An emergency warming shelter is now open in the Smithers Library parking lot, allowing homeless community members to seek refuge from the cold.
“We’re trying to figure out what to do over the next few days to keep people alive,” said Mayor Gladys Atril at the council meeting on Jan. 9.
Environment and Climate Change Canada recently issued the Town a cold weather warning, indicating people’s lives could be severely at risk if exposed to the -30 degree temperatures expected this weekend.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
saobserver.net | Morgan Powell
The aurora borealis (northern lights) is a natural light display, visible at nighttime in the upper northern hemisphere. In Smithers, when the conditions are right, the northern lights can be observed as blue, red, yellow, green, and orange lights dancing across the dark sky.
“The aurora is one of timeliness and brightness,” explained Gladys Atrill, executive director of Tourism Smithers. “There is something compelling about northern lights.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
interior-news.com | Morgan Powell
The aurora borealis (northern lights) is a natural light display, visible at nighttime in the upper northern hemisphere. In Smithers, when the conditions are right, the northern lights can be observed as blue, red, yellow, green, and orange lights dancing across the dark sky.
“The aurora is one of timeliness and brightness,” explained Gladys Atrill, executive director of Tourism Smithers. “There is something compelling about northern lights.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
thenorthernview.com | Morgan Powell
A New Year’s Eve celebration turned to tragedy in Smithers when a bonfire explosion required emergency transport of two young people with severe burns to a hospital in Vancouver.
Four others were also injured and treated for mild to moderate burns locally.
Shortly after midnight on Jan. 1, Smithers RCMP received a call that multiple people had been injured at a bonfire during a New Year’s Eve party.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
interior-news.com | Morgan Powell
The Bulkley Valley (BV) Museum and the Smithers Art Gallery are collaborating to bring a Fabulous Forests And Marvellous Mushrooms exhibit to town in the new year.
“Mushrooms are pretty cool,” said BV Museum curator Kira Westby.
“I think it’s going to be really a neat exhibit with hopefully some different stuff we can all connect to while it’s here.”
The idea for the collaboration developed after the museum decided to bring in the exhibit BC’s Marvelous Mushrooms.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
interior-news.com | Morgan Powell
Last year, when temperatures dipped far below freezing, the Smithers Public Library opened its doors to people living in the homeless encampment next door.
But that won’t happen again this year due to liability issues outlined by Town staff at the Dec. 12 regular meeting of council.
Director of library services Wendy Wright had informed council about opening the doors earlier. In return, she was asked to submit a package detailing what had happened.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
interior-news.com | Morgan Powell
On Dec. 14, Citizens on Patrol (COP) hosted a meeting to establish a board, in hopes of getting the program off the ground soon.
“We came to learn quite quickly that things have changed as far as Citizens on Patrol goes, Citizens on Patrol when it started here 25 or so years ago was quite an informal organization,” explained COP chair Lorne Benson. “In order to comply with current legislation, we now have to operate as a society.”
Benson explained this transition has been a complex process.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
interior-news.com | Morgan Powell
It appears progress may have been made in an ongoing dispute between town council and the Bulkley Valley Soccer Society (BVSS) over the closing date for the Chandler Park fields.
“I was a little naive, I thought it was just a simple matter. You just leave the locks off the gates and done, but it’s not,” explained BVSS president Monique Vanderwart at the Dec. 12 town council meeting.
“After being open just shy of four-and-a-half months, we had thought it would be open longer.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
todayinbc.com | Morgan Powell
Residents of northwestern B.C. are praising Space X technology, stating Starlink internet is revolutionizing digital connectivity for northern communities. Chris Hadfield, former NASA director of operations and an International Space Station commander, took some time to chat about rural internet connectivity in Smithers, and how connectivity is influenced by satellite technology. “Access to the internet is very much the difference between education, health care, and jobs,” explained Hadfield.
