Energeticcity.ca Weekly Review: 2025 People’s Choice Awards

Welcome to the next installment of the Weekly Review, a series where we mention what’s going on behind the scenes and showcase the previous week’s top stories.

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Behind the Scenes

The North Peace People’s Choice Awards presented by RE/MAX Action Realty are officially back! Until May 11, you can vote for your favourite people, businesses, and organizations that make our region a great place to live.

This is our second year running the awards. The goal of the awards is not only to recognize the awesome people in our community but to also showcase places for people to check out if they are moving here or passing through.

We have over 200 categories but you can vote just for the ones you care about. Plus, you can win some amazing prizes just for winning thanks to our sponsors RE/MAX Action Realty, Brad’s Furniture & Appliances, Butler Farm Equipment, Great Canadian Oil Change, and SLB.

Anyone within the North Peace is eligible, meaning Fort St John, Taylor, Charlie Lake, Hudson’s Hope, and Areas B & C of the PRRD. You can see the list of last year’s winners here. We also took the results and wrote compilation articles as voted on by the people who live here.​

• Best Restaurants
• Best Community Events
• Best Sports & Fitness Options
• Best Places for Family Night
• Best Pizza
• Best Places for Date Night
• Best Places for Hanging with Friends

Make sure to vote and feel free to highlight your favourites on social media! If you are a part of a business and you would like a poster to get people to vote for you, let me know at greg@moosemediafsj.ca

Most-Read Stories of the Week

It’s always interesting to see what the readers of Energeticcity.ca are most curious about. Sometimes it’s a big decision that will impact property taxes, and sometimes it’s a new restaurant coming to town. Here are the most-read stories for the week of April 6 to 12, 2025:

1. Judge Tosses Out 13-Year Lawsuit:​ over Fort St John speedskating oval design. In July 2010, Pentagon Structures Ltd. of Edmonton sued Field, Field & Field Architecture Engineering Ltd. of Grande Prairie, claiming $1.74 million in damages for negligence.
2. Alaska Highway Was Closed West of Fort Nelson: due to a “fuel spill.” The spill occurred on the morning of Monday, April 7, 2025, when a fuel tanker was involved in a motor vehicle incident​ nearly 200 kilometres west of Fort Nelson.
3. Court Report:​ for the week of March 31 to April 4, 2025. Included are the latest sentences handed down from the Fort St. John, Dawson Creek and Chetwynd provincial courts.

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