The B.C. government announced Friday that it is protecting nearly 1,000 acres of Coastal Douglas fir ecosystem, a move lauded by the Ancient Forest Alliance. It’s one of the top four endangered ecosystems in Canada.

Last summer in B.C., 190 homes and nearly 250 other buildings were completely destroyed by wildfires in both the Thompson-Nicola Regional District and the Cariboo Regional District. To reduce losses like this in the future, there are things people can do to make their homes safer if a wildfire strikes.

Children in low and middle-income families will get an income boost this month, Canada's Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould announced in Vancouver on Thursday.

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“The era of inaction and denial is over. We are moving immediately to get dirty money out of B.C. casinos," Eby said. “It will take time to undo the damage done to B.C.'s international reputation, but we aren't waiting to get started.”

Last weekend, there were 170 fires burning across B.C., 10 times more than the same time last year. But officials say it's still impossible to predict how 2018’s wildfire season will play out, and whether the province will find itself in a state of emergency again this year.

Jim Anderson is the Philip S. Weld professor of chemistry at Harvard, a "titanic force" behind saving the planet from disintegration of the ozone layer. We need to stop all fossil fuel emissions if we want to prevent irreversible climate change. Expanding a pipeline to transport fossil fuels is not a step in the right direction, he says.

Environmentalists have accused the B.C. government of lying about the amount of majestic, centuries-old trees left standing in the province. The National Observer reported last month that the B.C. government, through B.C. Timber Sales, had approved permits for logging that saw some of the world’s biggest red cedar and Douglas fir trees cut down in the Nahmint Valley on Vancouver Island.

B.C. has a very strong argument against Alberta’s move to limit the flow of oil into the province, and Ottawa’s decision to buy the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline is unlikely to change that, three constitutional experts agree.

Who's approving the logging of these ancient giants? The answer may appall you.