RCMP closed a stretch of Highway 5 near Blue River for nearly eight hours on March 12th to apprehend a person who was wanted for murder.

The Rocky Mountain Goat is a weekly newspaper covering east-central British Columbia, a rural area which includes the communities of Valemount, McBride, Dunster, and Blue River.

Bird, Conservatives vote to give first reading to Human Rights Code Repeal Act By Abigail Popple, Local Journalism Initiative ...

McBride Council discussed a collaboration with Northern Health, appointed a resident to the Tourism Committee and discussed banking with Integris during its February 24th regular meeting.

Mayor Owen Torgerson, centre, called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. The meeting lasted just under 10 minutes. /Abigail Popple, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, RMG By Abigail Popple, Local ...

Memorial tourney to honour Lucille Mintz expands to remember many local hockey champions By Laura Keil The late Lucille Mintz will be on the hearts and minds of many this weekend. The local mom, ...

Editorial: Tragedy compounded by misinformation By Spencer Hall Last week, a small town not unlike those in the Robson Valley faced an unthinkable tragedy when an 18-year-old woman, Jesse Van ...

Flightless sandhill crane’s future looking bright  By Andrea Arnold Thanks to the heart and a lot of effort by several McBride residents, a flightless sandhill crane has been safely delivered to a ...

Laura Keil is a writer and journalist in the Columbia Basin. She is currently working on a historical fiction novel that charts the rise of the Columbia River Treaty dams in the 1960s as the main ...

Simpcw (formerly known as the North Thompson Indian Band) are a division of the Secwepemc Nation which is made up of 17 bands that are located in the interior of BC. Simpcw Territory covers ...

Councillor Donnie MacLean discusses board governance training. From left to right: Owen Torgerson, Anne Yanciw, Donnie MacLean, Pete Pearson. /Abigail Popple, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, RMG ...

For much of the twentieth century, train order poles were the most common, and certainly the most essential tools housed in any train station. As it was completely impractical for every passing train ...