Communities throughout the province will benefit from a half a million dollars in B.C. government funding to help non-profit cultural organizations, First Nations and friendship centres improve local arts infrastructure.

An investment of $2.4 million by the provincial government is helping adult learners around the province improve their reading and writing skills by providing them with the help they need in their home communities.

The Government of British Columbia is investing $5 million this year for more than 50 projects in communities throughout B.C. that will improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists on provincial highways and roads.

B.C. is open for business and welcoming tourists in every corner of the province, especially in our spectacularly beautiful Kootenay Rockies region.

The B.C. government is providing new funding to support multicultural organizations in raising awareness and strengthening their capacity to promote and enhance B.C.'s multicultural identity.

To increase harvesting activity on the coast, government is exploring the use of new scanner technology for scaling logs, accelerating the auction of an additional 500,000 cubic metres by BC Timber Sales, improving the log-export system and exploring ways to better harvest the timber profile.

Throughout British Columbia billions of dollars are being invested in new hospitals, upgrades and renovations, and 2012 was no exception.

The B.C. government is providing another $764,600 through the First Nations Clean Energy Business Fund (FNCEBF) to help 10 First Nations communities pursue clean-power options.

British Columbia will be featured as an attractive tourist destination by two high-profile television shows over the next week.