More than 20 new safe and secure second-stage homes are open in Port Alberni for women and their children leaving violence.

To help people in crisis and to free police to focus on crime, a new crisis response team is now in Chilliwack.

Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, has released the following statement regarding Surrey’s transition to the Surrey Police Service (SPS):

A new, first-of-its-kind pilot program that uses hydrogen to power commercial trucking will help accelerate B.C.’s transition to a clean economy and create new opportunities for people and businesses with the support of provincial funding.

Families and children living in the Kelowna area now have access to child care at the Kelowna Airport YMCA Child Care centre, making pickup and dropoff easy for parents and caregivers working at the airport or living nearby.

Students at Pleasant Valley Secondary school are one step closer to having a new gymnasium, which will also benefit the community.

A few hundred Kelowna families can now have their kids in child care conveniently located on school grounds, with more child care spaces opening in the coming months.