Effective at 12 noon on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, all open fires will be permitted within the Kamloops Fire Centre, due to a decreased risk of wildfires.

A new partnership totalling $200,000 will assist community forests and small woodlot licence holders to identify new business opportunities.

Prescribed burns are planned in the Ward Creek, Becher's Prairie, and Farwell Canyon area west of Williams Lake between now and Nov. 16, 2012, weather conditions permitting.

Enbridge/Northern Gateway's answers at the hearings into the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline in Prince George are not providing enough detail for B.C. to judge whether the company is living up to the promise to implement world-leading land-based spill prevention, response and mitigation practices.

A group of 25 members of the Korean Forest Service have arrived in Salmon Arm to learn wildfire investigation techniques and take advantage of the expertise of B.C.'s Wildfire Management Branch crews.

An amendment to the occupational health and safety regulation under the Workers' Compensation Act stipulates that resource roads are not classed as a workplace, Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson announced today

Effective today, Oct. 15, 2012, campfires and all open fires will be permitted in the Clearwater and Salmon Arm fire zones due to a decreased risk of wildfires.

Effective at noon today, Oct. 15, 2012, campfires and all open fires will be permitted across the Southeast Fire Centre's jurisdiction, due to a decreased risk of wildfires.

B.C. will beat national targets on recycling by close to a year, said Environment Minister Terry Lake at the annual meeting of the Canadian Council of the Ministers of Environment (CCME), which wrapped up Thursday, and in advance of Waste Reduction Week Oct. 15-21.