The Province has provided $129,000 for improved access to hospice palliative care in Grand Forks and Osoyoos/Oliver.

Some of the province’s most vulnerable people will benefit from research into HIV/AIDS, addiction and viral hepatitis that will be carried out at the world-class Hope to Health Research Centre following a successful expansion project supported in part through $2 million in government funding.

Finance Minister Michael de Jong will be hosting a telephone town hall for residents in the Vancouver Island/Coastal regions of B.C. on Monday, Jan. 30, at 7 p.m. to get their input on the 2017 provincial budget.

A coroner’s inquest jury has issued 21 recommendations to try to reduce the toll from illicit drug deaths in B.C.

Canadians will be better equipped for the well-paying middle-class jobs of today and tomorrow as a result of a $1.9-million investment in two new capital projects at the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC), including a modular learning facility for students taking specialized driving courses.

Prince George area families are being encouraged to attend an open house on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, to share their ideas on how to transform rural education in British Columbia.

Minister Environment Mary Polak has issued the following statement regarding the BC Supreme Court ruling on Shawnigan Lake judicial review:

Mountain Caribou are at risk of extinction. 98% of the global population of caribou lives in B.C. The current population is about 1,500, in 15 separate herds throughout B.C.

The B.C. government is counting down to Moose Hide Campaign Day on February 16, 2017 by encouraging men throughout the BC Public Service and members of the Legislative Assembly to participate in the B.C.-born campaign to stop violence against women and girls.