The Province is funding new, collaborative interventions that will help connect vulnerable people to the services they need by providing the City of Surrey with a $175,000 grant for a pilot project to enhance community response to the overdose crisis.

The Province is seeking public input to shape new provincial policing standards that will promote unbiased policing.

As this winter has been unusually snowy, outdoor enthusiasts, such as hikers, skiers, snowshoers, snowboarders and snowmobilists, are urged to check the avalanche forecast before venturing into remote areas at: www.avalanche.ca

People on many of British Columbia’s busiest roads will be safer, as new technology cracks down on those who fly through some of the province’s most crash-prone intersections.

Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General and Minister Responsible for Emergency Preparedness Mike Farnworth has issued the following statement on Search and Rescue Volunteer Memorial Day:

The BC Coroners Service has announced that a public inquest will be held into the death of Deanna Renee Desjarlais.

The Special Investigations Unit with the BC Coroners Service has completed DNA analysis confirming that human remains found near Jordan River on Dec. 7, 2017, are those of Stanley K. Okumoto from East Bremerton, Kitsap County, Wash.