Wildfire activity is increasing in the B.C. Interior and travel on some provincial highways is being affected.

The Province and Halfway River First Nation are taking key actions together to protect the Nation’s Treaty 8 rights, heal the land and create more predictability for everyone in northeastern B.C. who relies on resource-industry jobs to support their lives and families.

Skidegate Band members now have access to 24 affordable homes with the opening of a new on-reserve rental complex.

British Columbia’s deputy chief forester has set the new allowable annual cut (AAC) level for Tree Farm Licence 23 (TFL), located northwest of Castlegar, near Arrow Lake.

New support for a mass-timber production facility is protecting sustainable forestry jobs in Okanagan Falls and continuing to strengthen B.C.’s position as a leader in mass-timber innovation.

Fifty units of rental housing in Parksville have been protected, keeping rental rates affordable for people through the latest acquisition by the B.C. Rental Protection Fund.

BC Hydro will construct approximately $1 billion in capital projects in Surrey over the next decade to upgrade and expand the electricity grid and provide clean power for homes, businesses and growing electrification and transportation needs.

A fifth intake of the Connecting Communities BC funding program is open for project applications to increase access to high-speed internet services in rural and remote communities.