The Province will fund a $650,000 scientific study to help inform regulatory and policy development for future industrial activity in the Kitimat area.

Effective Oct. 1, 2013, open fires will be permitted in the Clearwater Fire Zone and the Salmon Arm Fire Zone within the Kamloops Fire Centre, due to a decreased risk of wildfires.

The governments of Canada and British Columbia have renewed their water quantity monitoring agreement.

A partnership between Backroad Mapbooks and the Province is bringing the exciting activity of 'geo-caching' to 18 of B.C.'s popular recreation sites and trails.

Five coastal First Nations have been awarded $60,000 over one year to establish a tsunami debris management and cleanup program along the central coast of British Columbia, north of Vancouver Island to the Alaska Panhandle.

The Province recently launched iMapBC 2.0, an upgraded version of its popular online mapping toolkit that will provide improved access to thousands of geographical datasets.

Residents and interested parties are invited to attend an open house on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, regarding the ongoing restoration project at Haynes Point Provincial Park.

The City of Port Alberni has become the province's fifth community to achieve Bear Smart status, an honour recognizing the community for their exceptional collaborative approach to reducing human-bear conflicts.

A partnership of local governments and First Nations have been awarded $139,000 over two years to establish a tsunami debris management and cleanup program on Haida Gwaii.