Twenty-eight B.C. communities have been awarded age-friendly community planning and project grants to support strategies to help seniors stay mobile, physically active, socially connected and healthy.

The B.C. government is providing $1.6 million for 80 additional temporary winter shelter spaces, as well as rent supplements, for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Vancouver.

A new supportive-recovery centre for women, the first of its kind on the North Shore, officially opened its doors with support from the governments of Canada and British Columbia, along with community partners.

PharmaCare will save up to $1 million this fiscal year, and $4 million each year afterwards, by changing its coverage of diabetes supplies called blood glucose test strips.

The B.C. government has provided $60,000 to complete renovations at an eight-bed supportive-housing building for homeless men in Kelowna.

British Columbia's doctors have voted in favour of accepting a new five-year agreement with the provincial government.

Recent data from the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) shows a significant decrease in unexpected hospital deaths in all B.C. health authorities.

With a $30,000 boost from the Government of British Columbia, Canada's leading young luge athletes will surge down the track this weekend against top international competition at the Junior Luge World Cup in Whistler.

Government funding for new health education spaces at seven public colleges and universities to support students and B.C.'s health sector was announced t at Thompson Rivers University.