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 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 […]
Sunny September afternoon at Kitimat’s Minette Bay West Park, Sept. 9. Still water at high tide, plus great blue herons.
On the evening of September 2, the 70 per cent waxing gibbous moon appeared blood red due to high smoke from the BC interior wildfires and the large LNG Canada flare. There was a single flare during the time when it was still daylight at 8:10 pm. When I went out again at between 9:31 […]
(Updated Sept. 4, 2025 with enhanced NASA images, the MODIS picture of the day, replacing earlier live image from Worldview) Double trouble for Kitimat on September 2, 2025. There were apocalyptic skies with heavy smoke looking like a J. M. W. Turner painting. The heavy smoke came from two sources. The winds are blowing smoke […]
Last spring Sony released a new super telephoto zoom the FE 400–800 mm F6.3–8 G OSS . Prerelease reviews said was one of the best bird and nature photography lenses on the market. I was very hesitant, the base price is $4099.99 in Canada. After months of mostly glowing reviews the tempetation was increasing. Here in […]