It was uncertain whether I could shoot the April “Pink” full moon on April 1. For most of the day and early evening there was cloud cover, ranging from Stratocumulus to Cumulus, I had an evening meeting and as I left the meeting around 2045, looked up saw a lot of cloud cover. I had […]
The end of March 2026 in Kitimat has been nasty. Rather than slowly becoming springlike we’ve had snow storm after snow storm, with the latest (after the spring equinox) was more like a blizzard in January or February.
The District of Kitimat announced on Thursday, March 26, 2025, that former mayor Joanne Monahgan has died. Monaghan joined Kitimat Council in 1980 as Alderman (a title later changed to Councillor) and served the community with distinction for decades. She is Kitimat’s first female Mayor, holding the role from 2008 until 2014. Here is a […]
The annual Fred Diessing Northwest Coast art exhibit opened at the Kitimat Museum and Archives on Saturday March 7, 2026. The school at Coast Mountain College in Terrace, brings together indigenous instructors and students from across the region to teach and learn the fundamentals of northwest coast art, design and paintng, later teaching carving and […]
Kitimat Firefighter Paramedics – IAFF Local 1304 defeated the Kitimat RCMP Detachment Saturday, February 21, 7–3 in the annual Showdown in Snowtown Classic, also known across the province as Guns and Hoses Game. The charity game raised $25,000 for the Kitimat Fire Ladder of Hope Charity. After a tight first two periods, the firefighters pulled […]
Kitimat held its annual Rail Jam at City Centre n Friday January 30, 202. A rail jam defined as a high-energy, grassroots skiing and snowboarding competition focusing on technical tricks on rails, boxes, and urban-style features. It is held in small spaces, often in city centres or at the base of ski resorts. The District […]
On this weekend most of North America was in the grip of a frigid polar vortex. On the northwest coast of British Columbia, the sky was clear (and there were few birds on the waterfront).