Two new highway webcams are now installed on Highway 1 at Hoffman’s Bluff, giving drivers a real-time view of this section of the Trans-Canada Highway east of Pritchard.

Families with children throughout British Columbia soon will have more help in achieving healthy lifestyles and healthy weights with $2 million to support the expansion of the free Mind, Exercise, Nutrition, Do it! (MEND) program.

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure will be conducting rehabilitation work on the  Highway 1 Valleyview overpass in Kamloops, beginning March 29, for five weeks.

Co-op students at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) will benefit from $75,000 in one-time funding, part of a $1.3-million announcement to 16 public post-secondary institutions following the launch of Co-op Week celebrations.

Two Aboriginal communities in Kamloops will receive approximately $140,000 from the Province to support culture-based domestic violence healing and prevention programs in their communities.

Health Minister Terry Lake today announced funding of $150,000 to ASK Wellness Society to continue the support of a partnership between the society and Royal Inland Hospital (RIH), which connects vulnerable people with supports after release from the hospital.

The majority of the thick smoke blanketing many areas of southern B.C., is drifting northward from large wildfires in the United States.