Drivers are being urged to take extra precautions around large trucks to reduce crashes that result in a significant number of fatalities each year in British Columbia.

A project to improve safety and increase capacity by four-laning a section of the Trans-Canada Highway, between Donald and Forde Station Road, will soon be posted to BC Bid.

Motorists using 72nd Avenue at Highway 91 are advised of upcoming overnight lane closures.

The ministry is advising motorists to plan ahead, check live traffic conditions on DriveBC.ca and expect delays on the Coquihalla/Highway 5 on the Thanksgiving long weekend.

Now that the summer peak travel period is over and traffic volumes are lower, the ministry will be reducing the highway to one lane in each direction on the Malahat between Aspen Road and Shawnigan Lake Road.

The Government of British Columbia has introduced legislation to toughen the rules around political lobbying, which is expected to help protect the integrity of public decision making.

The Province is contributing to a regional Metro Vancouver bid to play host to Amazon’s second headquarters, Amazon HQ2, which could generate US$5 billion in investment and create up to 50,000 jobs in B.C., announced Premier John Horgan at the UBCM convention today.

Motorists are advised that as part of the six-laning project through Kelowna from Highway 33 to Edwards Road, the highway on-ramp by Auction World off Sexsmith Road and Old Vernon Road will be closed permanently to traffic, effective Thursday night, Sept. 14, 2017.

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure has awarded a $998,900 contract to Seismic 2000 Construction Ltd. of Aldergrove to carry out the Cowichan River bridges’ seismic safety retrofit project.