About 100 students joined in a reading flash mob to celebrate Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) today at City Centre Library in Surrey.

The government of British Columbia is investing $60.5 million over the next three years in provincial highway improvements to reduce congestion, increase safety and support public transit for families, commuters and commercial drivers in Surrey, Langley and Delta.

The B.C. government has declared Oct. 12, 2012, "Smoke Alarm Awareness Day", and Justice Minister and Attorney General Shirley Bond will present the proclamation to firefighters and health professionals this morning at the Canadian Injury Action Forum.

With only 365 more days to go before the new emergency department at Surrey Memorial Hospital opens to patients, all eyes are looking up as the eight-floor Critical Care Tower gets "topped off".

Education Minister George Abbott and local representatives from the Surrey school district put shovels to soil today at the future site of Goldstone Park Elementary as they symbolically broke ground on four separate school projects.

Lower Mainland communities hard hit by metal theft are expected to see relief as a result of new regulations effective today for transactions involving high-value metals.

British Columbia's future elite athletes are gathered for three days of intense competition in Surrey at the 28th BC Summer Games, opening tonight.

Lower-income seniors and families in communities throughout B.C. will have increased access to locally grown produce and food products as the result of a $2-million, one-time grant to the BC Association of Farmers' Markets.