McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. has won the Deputy Minister's Consulting Engineers Award for Excellence in Construction Management and Supervision, for its exceptional work on the Highway 5/Clearwater Valley Road intersection improvement project.

Aboriginal learners in British Columbia's Interior region are training for careers in fields ranging from the hospitality and health-care industries to business and governance through local partnership agreements that provide hands-on and classroom training.

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a male who died after a motor vehicle incident in Kamloops on Dec. 12, 2013.

ARC Asphalt Recycling Inc. has won this year's Deputy Minister's Contractor of the Year Award in the paving category, for a project on Highway 16 from Blackman Road to Red Pass and Driscoll Creek to Slim Creek, east of Prince George.

Affordable apartments for 70 low income families and individuals will be preserved, thanks to $3.9 million in funding from the governments of Canada and B.C. for renovations that will extend the life of the Sundergreen development in Kamloops.

Effective immediately, travellers are advised the Monte Creek Forest Service Road, also known locally as the Private Forest Service Road, is closed until further notice at the 5.75 kilometre marker for road repairs.