A panel has ruled in favour of four western Canadian provinces in a trade dispute against unnecessary barriers to Certified General Accountants.

Premier Christy Clark and British Columbia Achievement chair Keith Mitchell are pleased to announce that Charlotte Gill is the winner of the 2012 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for "Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe".

A new bursary program will support Aboriginal students studying to become teachers and help them pursue careers as educators.

More than 60 representatives from area organizations, Aboriginal communities, post-secondary institutions, employers, labour and others took part in a Regional Workforce Table open house forum for B.C.'s northeast region Feb. 10.

Labour, Citizens' Services and Open Government Minister Margaret MacDiarmid has instructed the assistant deputy minister of industrial relations to report on the likelihood of a negotiated settlement between the BC Teachers' Federation (BCTF) and the BC Public School Employers' Association (BCPSEA).

Education Minister George Abbott joined children, caregivers and staff for the official opening of the Senator Reid StrongStart BC Centre, where he read "No Sleep for the Sheep" to the kids.

B.C. students will soon be riding to school in new, cost-effective buses, as the Province distributes $10.5 million to 32 school districts to replace old buses in their fleets.

Research has shown that anxiety has the highest prevalence rate of all childhood mental disorders, affecting approximately 65,000 children and youth in B.C.