A contract has been awarded to the Fraser Basin Council (FBC) for the first phase of a human health risk assessment of oil and gas development in northeast British Columbia.

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Thinking of making a New Year's resolution to stop smoking, eat better or be more active? B.C. families now have easy access to a variety of new tools and programs to help them achieve healthier lifestyles.

Future health professionals in the Bulkley Valley will benefit from additional student spaces in the health-care assistant training program at the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology (NVIT).

Implementing Canada's most ambitious housing strategy and building strong partnerships at the community level has enabled the Province to help more than 95,000 people keep the cost of housing more affordable in British Columbia in 2011.

The BC Coroners Service has announced it will hold a public inquest into the deaths of three workers who died on a mushroom farm in Langley in September 2008.

Snow season has arrived, along with icy conditions that can lead to an unexpected slip or trip.

Forty-two interim shelter spaces open today at the Marble Arch Hotel, a provincially owned SRO. This shelter facility, using vacant commercial space at the Marble Arch, will operate 24 hours a day, offer a meal program and incorporate a unique couples-only component.

The Province and the BC Medical Association have signed a milestone agreement, which paves the way for 24/7 obstetrical anesthesia services in all B.C.'s tertiary care maternity hospitals to better support high-risk pregnant mothers and their babies.

About a quarter of seniors in residential care in B.C. will now receive up to an additional $600 a year.