BC Gov News

As winter weather rolls in provincewide, British Columbians need to prepare for slick streets, freezing temperatures and power outages so they can stay safe and warm.

British Columbians who feel they are being gouged on their cellphone bills will have help with the appointment of a federal lead on telecommunications.

Expanding low-barrier and culturally safe public health services to vulnerable families, improving continuity of care and service co-ordination, and determining the need for a provincial approach for reviewing infant mortality are key recommendations of a death review panel into sudden infant deaths.

The BC Coroners Service has scheduled a public inquest into the death of Peter John de Groot beginning on May, 19, 2020, at 9:30 a.m. at the Rossland Courthouse located at 2288 Columbia Ave.

Organizations throughout the province working to make B.C. communities safer are invited to apply to the 2019-20 Civil Forfeiture Crime Prevention and Remediation grant program.

Fire Prevention Week in B.C. runs from Oct. 6 to 12, 2019. “Not Every Hero Wears a Cape. Plan and Practise Your Escape!” is this year's theme.

This spring, Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, and I took the first steps to making cellphone billing and contracts less confusing and easier to understand for people in B.C.

The BC Coroners Service has published updated reports on illicit drug toxicity deaths and fentanyl-detected drug deaths to the end of June 2019.

The BC Coroners Service has published an updated report on suicide deaths in B.C. up to the end of 2017.

Disaster Financial Assistance (DFA) is now available for eligible British Columbians in the Chilcotin region who may have been impacted by overland flooding from heavy rains that began on July 6, 2019.