A week remains to show your support for Dry Grad celebrations throughout the province, Until March 31, BC Liquor Store customers can donate $1 or more to Support Dry Grad celebrations in their communities.

As a result of federal and provincial investments, a new program, the Affordable Rental Housing initiative (ARHi), will soon be available in the Columbia Basin region for households in need. Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) has also partnered with the Province in this initiative to deliver essential affordable rental housing.

The Province has levied the first-ever administrative penalty under the Residential Tenancy Act against a Surrey landlord who failed to maintain his rental property despite a number of orders from the Residential Tenancy Branch.

The Governments of Canada and British Columbia, along with community partners, today marked the opening of Mclean Manor, an eight-apartment affordable housing development for seniors and people with disabilities.

Modular housing that once provided accommodation to athletes during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Whistler has been relocated and converted into 52 affordable rental apartments for seniors and people with disabilities at risk of homelessness in Surrey.

The Province today introduced Bill 30, the Energy and Mines Statutes Amendment Act, 2012, to streamline and clarify regulations in four existing acts - the Oil and Gas Activities Act, the Utilities Commission Act, the Clean Energy Act and the Strata Property Act.

Amendments to the energy-efficiency standards regulation brings the timing of British Columbia's energy-efficiency standards for 40- and 60-watt light bulbs in line with the federal government.

When Ron Handford, Yellowhead Mining Inc.'s executive vice-president of corporate development, was on the Premier's jobs and trade mission to Asia last fall, he spoke with executives connected with smelters, mining and trading companies in Japan, China and South Korea.

Endako Mine has been issued a Mines Act permit amendment which will increase production, create approximately 160 new jobs and sustain a total of 400 employees in the north, announced Minister of Energy and Mines Rich Coleman.

The Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia announced a public-private partnership to renovate and restore 13 provincially owned Single Room Occupancy hotels in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to provide access to clean and safe social housing.