ALASKA HIGHWAY NEWS

With another school year underway across the Peace, those quieter summer mornings around our schools are gone for another year and drivers are once again sharing the road with school buses, young pedestrians, bicycles and plenty of parents making the morning drop-off. Photo from RCMP media release It doesn't take long for those routines to come back, but police recently reminded drivers that September is also a good time to slow things down a little, leave the phone alone and

By Karla Marsh Fifty years ago, settlers looking to homestead in the Fort St. John area, followed a dirt trail up from Dawson Creek and crossed the Peace River by ferry. Johnny Cox, left, shakes hands during a presentation in this undated photograph from the Fort St. John North Peace Museum collection. (Fort St. John North Peace Museum photo) After the U.S. Army built the Alaska Highway in 1942, the settlers’ journey became a whole lot easier. The dirt trail was upgraded to a

Heather Konschuh grew up on a Saskatchewan farm with no idea where a love for art might eventually take her, but more than two decades later, that journey has taken the Canadian glass artist from Australia and England to Vancouver, and now, later this month, north to Fort St. John. Some of the hand-blown and sculptural work of Vancouver glass artist Konschuh, who will be in Fort St. John Sept. 26 for the first Arts in Partnership Conference. (Submitted photos) Konschuh will b

A call about a man reportedly yelling and swinging a knife outside in Fort St. John led police to a vehicle early Sunday morning, where officers say they found two firearms, ammunition and a short sword. Fort St. John RCMP say a loaded sawed-off rifle and ammunition were among the weapons seized from a vehicle following a disturbance call early Sunday morning. (Fort St. John RCMP photo Fort St. John RCMP received the report at about 6:21 a.m. on Sept. 6, after someone called

After three landslides at Old Fort, more work is now moving ahead to better understand the risk in the slopes above the community. The PRRD announced Friday, Sept. 4 that the Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness has approved funding for Phase 2, which will look at landslide hazards and risk levels within the Crown land slopes above the community. The work stems from a ministerial order issued by the province on May 21, requiring the regional district to un

Peace Gallery North was a busy little place Saturday afternoon, as local artist David Thiessen opened Divine Instruction, bringing out a pretty good crowd for the first afternoon of his latest exhibit. There is plenty of faith behind the paintings hanging on the walls this time around, with Thiessen looking at biblical teachings, themes and values through his work, while a handwritten statement at the gallery explains a little more about what he hopes people take home with

There haven't been many quiet weeks for Fort St. John's Jake Gardner this year, and with another 20 or 25 rodeos possibly still ahead of him through September, our Peace Country cowboy isn't slowing down much yet. When the Alaska Highway News caught up with Gardner Saturday, he was in Ellensburg, Washington, getting ready to ride after already making stops in Plains, Montana and Walla Walla, Washington, with another trip north to Merritt waiting for him Sunday. “Man, it's b

Lilia Hansen has been part of Fort St. John for a long time, through business, community organizations, two terms on council and now four years as mayor, and Tuesday morning she made it clear there is still plenty she wants to do for the community she calls home. Hansen was first elected mayor in 2022 after serving two terms as a city councillor, and while she is proud of what Fort St. John has accomplished over the past four years, she also knows there is still plenty of wor