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.

The government of B.C. will install concrete median barriers on approximately 11 kilometres of Highway 97 between Lake Country and Vernon to improve safety for motorists.

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.

Hoban Equipment Ltd., in partnership with World Tech Solutions, has won this year's Deputy Minister's Contractor of the Year Award for safety innovation, for its Employee Proximity Alerting System.

Thanks to a multi-level partnership to enhance the Okanagan's outdoor recreation opportunities, the Highland Trail is receiving upgrades to make it safer and more accessible for residents and visitors.

Families and individuals in need in the community of Vernon now will have access to 20 new affordable rental housing apartments with the official opening of Vernon Viridian.

A prescribed burning program is being planned in the South Fork area east of Vernon between Sept. 13 and Oct. 30, 2013, weather conditions permitting.

Small-scale meat producers in the Regional District of the North Okanagan can now apply for one of five Class E licences to sell their meat to consumers visiting their farms, and at farmers' markets within the regional district.