With a significant number of wildfires burning throughout B.C., the Province continues to caution all British Columbians to be diligent with fire safety and to report all wildfires to authorities.

With a significant number of wildfires burning throughout B.C., the Province is cautioning all British Columbians to be diligent with fire safety and to report all wildfires to authorities.

Due to elevated wildfire activity in British Columbia, Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson was able to confirm that 70 personnel will be arriving from Ontario to assist with B.C.'s firefighting efforts.

The B.C. government starts off a week of National Aboriginal Day celebrations today with a feast and honouring ceremony for First Nation, Métis, and Inuit public sector employees at the Royal BC Museum, home to the First Peoples' languages exhibit, Our Living Languages.

The government of British Columbia is protecting more old-growth forests and enhancing biodiversity by establishing another 567 old growth management areas, Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson announced today.

The Province is partnering with local First Nations and the Nature Conservancy of Canada on long-term conservation for Grace Islet.

Welding, drilling and hammering - all were familiar sounds in many school districts as construction crews completed numerous capital and seismic projects in 2014.