More parents and guardians will have help seeking child support payments to improve the standard of living for their children with recent amendments to the Interjurisdictional Support Orders Act (ISO).

The Province and its maintenance contractors are preparing for more snow in the Lower Mainland and on southern and central Vancouver Island.

Jennifer Whiteside, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, has released the following statement regarding the BC Coroners Service report on illicit drug toxicity deaths in January:

The ongoing drug toxicity public-health emergency continues to devastate communities throughout British Columbia, with at least 198 deaths suspected to have been caused by toxic, unregulated drugs reported to the BC Coroners Service in January 2024. 

Dr. Robert Halpenny has been appointed chair of Interior Health’s board of directors, succeeding Dr. Doug Cochrane after his passing earlier this month.

A coroner’s inquest into the death of Nicholas Patrick James Goulding will begin at 9:30 a.m. on March 11, 2024, at the Burnaby Coroners’ Court (20th floor, 4720 Kingsway, Metrotower II, Metrotown, Burnaby).

New procedural safeguards in the Child, Family and Community Service Act (CFCSA) will enhance personal privacy protections while supporting child protection needs through amended legislation that also removes barriers to Indigenous jurisdiction.

Premier David Eby has issued the following statement marking Pink Shirt Day:

George Heyman, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, has released the following statement in response to the Office of the Auditor General of B.C.’s audit, Ministry’s management of hazardous spills: