The Province of B.C. has announced the three communities chosen to host the 55+ BC Games in 2017 through to 2019. These cities were successful in their bids following a process conducted by the BC Senior Games Society that determined the winners from a total of six submissions.

At least four people will get work experience helping the Vernon area improve its food security, thanks to more than $50,000 in provincial Job Creation Partnership funding that is benefitting two separate community organizations.

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of two women who died as a result of a motor vehicle collision in Vernon on July 11, 2015.

More than 50 Aboriginal workers will train for careers as heavy equipment operators through a Community and Employer Partnership between the B.C. government and the Southern Interior Construction Association, worth nearly $1.4 million.

A prescribed burning program is being planned in the South Fork area east of Vernon between Sept. 17 and Oct. 31, 2014, weather conditions permitting.

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure invites you to attend an open house to provide feedback about proposed boundary changes to Kalamalka Lake Provincial Park in the North Okanagan.

Prescribed burning is planned east of Vernon in the Satellite Hill and South Fork areas between March 25, 2014, and May 16, 2014, weather conditions permitting.