BC Hydro will invest nearly $6 billion in capital projects across B.C.’s southern Interior over the next decade to expand the electricity grid, and upgrade its infrastructure to ensure a continued, reliable supply of clean power across the region.

Nurses and patients at the North Okanagan Hospice House are among the people who will benefit from Community Gaming Grants for capital projects by non-profit organizations throughout the province.

People in Vernon and the North Okanagan will have improved access to expanded mental-health and substance-use services as the Province moves forward with a new, state-of-the-art in-patient psychiatric unit at Vernon Jubilee Hospital.

Seniors with low to moderate incomes are settling into 48 new affordable rental homes that are open in Vernon.

Twenty-five families, seniors and people living with disabilities in Vernon are settling into new affordable rental homes with the opening of two projects completed as a result of partnership between the Province, through BC Housing, and the Okanagan Village Housing Society.

Okanagan Indian Band members have access to new affordable homes with the opening of 16 rental units located on reserve.