The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died following an avalanche near Castlegar on March 14, 2016.

The Province has issued a First Nations woodland licence to Lheidli T’enneh First Nation, enhancing employment and economic opportunities in the region.

The Great Bear Rainforest (Forest Management) Act, supports a strict new ecosystem-based management regime created through unprecedented collaboration for the globally unique region along British Columbia’s north and central coast.

Cutting-edge health research projects at Genome BC received a big boost with $34 million in government funding.

The Province has extended the reduced fee in place for log exports in the Mid-Coast Timber Supply Area for one more year (to January 2017) to support forestry jobs in the area.

A company authorized to cut timber in the Meager Creek area northwest of Pemberton will receive an exemption to export up to 80,000 cubic metres of logs over a five-year period.

British Columbia remains a global climate leader as demonstrated at the historic COP 21 Paris climate change conference.

Effective immediately, the allowable annual cut for the Strathcona Timber Supply Area is 1,138,000 cubic metres.