The Province is restricting commercial-scale huckleberry harvesting to protect grizzly bear habitat in the Kootenay Boundary Region.

The B.C. government has allocated another $324,571 in Community Resiliency Investment program grants to seven local governments and First Nations communities in the Coastal Fire Centre to help support wildfire risk reduction projects.

The B.C. government has allocated another $1,413,349 in Community Resiliency Investment program grants to eight local governments and First Nations communities in the Southeast Fire Centre to help support wildfire risk reduction projects.

The B.C. government has allocated another $574,840 in Community Resiliency Investment program grants to eight local governments and First Nations communities in the Prince George Fire Centre to help support wildfire risk reduction projects.

The B.C. government has allocated another $265,106 in Community Resiliency Investment program grants to five local governments and First Nations communities in the Northwest Fire Centre to help support wildfire risk reduction projects.

The B.C. government has allocated another $1,059,199 in Community Resiliency Investment program grants to 11 local governments and First Nations communities in the Kamloops Fire Centre to help support wildfire risk reduction projects.

The B.C. government has allocated another $342,378 in Community Resiliency Investment program grants to five local governments and First Nations communities in the Cariboo Fire Centre to help support wildfire risk reduction projects.

The Government of B.C. is taking the first step toward ensuring that more B.C. logs are processed in B.C., creating jobs for British Columbians by applying a new, targeted fee-in-lieu of manufacturing for exported logs harvested from a coastal BC Timber Sales licence.

Several new wildfires started in the Northwest Fire Centre over the weekend, due to lightning storms that have been moving through the region.  

The BC Wildfire Service is responding to several wildfires following successive lightning strikes across the Northwest Fire Centre.