Nine local governments will receive Age-friendly BC Recognition for their efforts to support older residents to remain healthy and active in the community.

Premier Christy Clark released the following statement today in response to the re-election of National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Shawn Atleo, to a second three-year term:

Minister of Health Michael de Jong has issued the following statement:

"Today the Medical Services Commission released an audit of Cambie Surgeries Corporation and the Specialist Referral Clinic (Vancouver) Inc. which indicated a practice of billing patients for publicly insured medical services.

The B.C. government has fast-tracked increases to the school startup supplement so income and disability assistance clients - and now hardship assistance clients - with children in school can receive the extra money in time for the start of the school year.

Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation Pat Bell responded today to British Columbia and Canada's total victory in an arbitration panel's ruling on B.C.'s timber pricing policies under the 2006 Canada-U.S. Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA).

One year after a Dutch tourist fell to his death at Elk Falls Provincial Park near Campbell River, BC Parks and the BC Coroners Service have worked together to significantly improve safety measures near the falls, while allowing continued public access to this popular attraction.

The B.C. government has achieved an 84 per cent reduction in the 2011 mining permit backlog, two months before the target completion date set out in the BC Jobs Plan.

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who drowned in a rafting accident in the Stamp River near Port Alberni on July 15, 2012.

The government of British Columbia is providing $75,000 to help the township of Spallumcheen make local arts and culture an important part of the community's 120th anniversary celebration, Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister Ida Chong announced today.