Students throughout British Columbia are heading back to school this week and the Province of B.C. along with ICBC and Kamloops RCMP are urging drivers to stay alert and adhere to school zone speed limits to ensure that children get safely to school and back home again.

The project to pave 48.5 kilometres of Highway 5 between the North Thompson Bridge in Avola and Whitewater Bridge is now complete.

The British Columbia government is committed to making changes to the modified collector vehicle program to allow specialty cars and trucks, up to and including 1974, into the program.

Another hot-in-place asphalt resurfacing project is now complete in the Kamloops area.

Modern technology, improved infrastructure and newer and cleaner buses are topping the list of BC Transit projects for Kamloops soon to roll out under phase one of the new Public Transit Infrastructure Fund.

Two local companies will begin resurfacing work in the coming weeks on Highway 97C and the Trans-Canada Highway with the awarding of contracts to Belvedere Place Contracting Ltd. and Dawson Construction.

The Government of B.C. is providing $2.6 million in B.C. Air Access Program funding to support improvements at Kamloops Airport.

A small, local bridge on Kamloops Lake Drive near the west end of Kamloops Lake will be replaced this summer.

Several road resurfacing projects are set to kick off in the Kamloops and Nicola Valley areas, including on Highway 97C in Logan Lake, Highway 8 outside of Merritt and on Douglas Lake and Long Lake Roads.

Construction will soon be getting underway on the Vinsulla passing lane and commercial truck pullout project that will improve safety and the flow of traffic on the Yellowhead Highway north of Kamloops.