Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation Minister John Rustad will attend a Sunrise Ceremony and a Lighting of the Sacred Fire at the PNE Grounds on Sept. 18, to mark the beginning of the sixth national event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

BC Liquor Stores customers donated over $170,000 as part of a summer campaign to assist people affected by devastating floods in Alberta.

The Government of British Columbia has proclaimed that Sept. 16-22, 2013, shall be known as Reconciliation Week.

Five coastal First Nations have been awarded $60,000 over one year to establish a tsunami debris management and cleanup program along the central coast of British Columbia, north of Vancouver Island to the Alaska Panhandle.

Bill Bennett, Minister of Energy and Mines and Minister responsible for Core Review, toured the Mount Pleasant substation.

St. John Hospice, a new comprehensive palliative care facility in Vancouver providing 14 bedrooms for individuals in need of end-of-life care, has officially opened.

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a youth who died in a motor vehicle incident in Yarrow on Aug. 25, 2013.

Powerex has reached an out-of-court settlement to protect British Columbia from a potential $3.2 billion legal liability.