BC Gov News

In a move against the illegal production of illicit opioids and to help keep them off the streets, the Province is toughening regulations on pill-press machines and other similar pharmaceutical equipment.

The Government of British Columbia has introduced legislation that will create a framework to allow public service employees to disclose serious wrongdoing, and will provide protections to those who do so.

The Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development will be conducting a 22-hectare prescribed burn to help restore an ecosystem about 15 kilometres north of Deer Park, near Twobit Creek.

Three bargaining tables will begin talks this spring, marking the start of negotiations that aim to renew public sector agreements that expire in 2019.

The BC Coroners Service has scheduled a public inquest into the death of Lisa Dudley, to begin June 11, 2018, in Burnaby.

Premier John Horgan has issued the following statement in response to a violent incident in Toronto, where nine people were killed and at least 16 people were injured:

Northwest Community College has received approval to change its name to Coast Mountain College, effective June 18, 2018.