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How to stay healthy during cold, flu and COVID-19 season
January 20, 2024 - 2:30 PM
Winter is here, inflicting its usual array of symptoms — coughs, nasal congestion, fatigue and fever — and, this year, a new COVID-19 variant is dominating the scoreboard.
TIMELINE: How COVID changed our lives over the past three years
January 28, 2023 - 6:00 PM
The COVID-19 pandemic has now passed the three year mark.
As seasons change, B.C. health officials expecting hundreds more flu, COVID hospitalizations
September 28, 2022 - 1:00 PM
B.C. is rolling out flu vaccines this October in hopes of keeping the province's hospitals from getting overstuffed with respiratory illnesses this fall and winter.
A look at COVID-19 reopening plans across the country
August 22, 2021 - 11:01 AM
As COVID-19 vaccination rates increase, the provinces and territories have been releasing their reopening plans for businesses, events and recreational facilities.
Polio: When vaccines and re-emergence were just as daunting
June 08, 2021 - 5:30 AM
CINCINNATI (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic and the distribution of the vaccines that will prevent it have surfaced haunting memories for Americans who lived through an earlier time when the country was swept by a virus that, for so long, appeared to have no cure or way to prevent it.
Canada can make vaccines, just not the ones leading the COVID-19 race
November 25, 2020 - 6:00 PM
OTTAWA - The head of a Canadian biotech industry association says Canada can and does make vaccines — just not the ones expected first to help stop the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canadians divided over mandatory COVID-19 vaccines: poll
October 14, 2020 - 10:06 AM
OTTAWA - Canadians appear to be turning against mandatory COVID-19 inoculations whenever a vaccine becomes available, with a new poll suggesting the number of people opposed to the idea is growing.
COVID-19 cases, deaths climb despite restrictions; experts warn of 'cures'
March 26, 2020 - 2:13 PM
TORONTO - The unrelenting climb in COVID-19 cases in Canada continued Thursday amid tightening restrictions aimed at curbing the pandemic as experts warned against prescribing or using unproven cures for the disease that has killed 39 people and infected close to 4,000 others.
Interior Health authority prepares for deadly influenza season
September 24, 2018 - 4:30 PM
The great purge is upon us once again, the annual influenza season that sickens and kills hundreds of Interior Health Authority residents every winter.
Strong demand means some providers short of flu vaccine in Kelowna
November 01, 2017 - 8:00 PM
KELOWNA - Strong demand has left some local pharmacies and clinics short of this year’s flu vaccine but the Interior Health Authority says there’s more than enough to go around.
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THOMPSON: Junk drawers: No method to my indefensible organizational madness
OPINION Maybe everyone has that drawer, you know, the one where you stick things because you don’t know where else to put it. I hope - for your sake - you don’t have what I have, multiple drawers. I
Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit
Advocacy group calls on Vancouver to 'embrace' cannabis tourism after 4-20 'debacle'
VANCOUVER - The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op
Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each time Ignition Developments goes to the commission, i
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'Heartbreaking': Kamloops residents reflect on demolition of decades-old hotel, nightclub
A building with a long and entertaining past has been demolished to make way for new housing developments on Kamloops North Shore, leaving some residents feeling nostalgic. The Northbridge H
April 21, 2024 6:00 PM
Kamloops RCMP knew 'suspicious debris' was a body long before informing the public
Kamloops Mounties issued a cryptic news release in January after officers blocked a downtown riverfront trail and asked the public to stay clear of the area. The public would learn the next
April 22, 2024 7:00 AM
Kamloops mayor considers selling business, home to avoid conflicts, pay legal bills
The mayor of Kamloops is considering his options as he looks to sell his home and his business. Reid Hamer-Jackson said he forgot about the listing, which was posted two years ago, but
April 20, 2024 7:00 AM
Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each ti
April 21, 2024 6:00 AM
JONESIE: Why Reid Hamer-Jackson can't fight city hall
OPINION I don’t live in Kamloops. Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s antics have no effect on me personally, so allow me to be a bit more philosophical about it. I want to like
April 19, 2024 12:00 PM
With climate change, drought are lush green lawns a thing of the past in Kamloops, Okanagan?
Drought risk, tighter water restrictions and increased wildfire risk are just a few reasons why some residents in the southern Interior are rethinking what their lawns and yards should look like.
April 21, 2024 7:00 PM
Crown seeks 5 years prison for Kelowna man who distributed video of him raping young girl
It was bad enough that Benjamin Lanchick raped an unconscious 16-year-old girl who was a guest in his apartment in July 2021. He made it worse by recording two videos of his activities with
April 20, 2024 7:00 PM
Kamloops home torched days after search
A Kamloops home went up in flames overnight just days after it was searched by police. An officer patrolling the area spot the 1315 Tranquille Road home up in flames around 3 a.m., April 20.
April 20, 2024 10:30 AM
In domestic abuse, strangulation is a 'hidden' predictor of femicide, experts say
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Georgina McGrath says she still has to sleep some nights with the windows open, the cold air in her lungs a reminder that she's far away from the man who used to strangl
April 21, 2024 9:00 PM
RCMP launch murder investigation after body discovered near Big White
RCMP are conducting a homicide investigation after a body was found in a creek near Big White Ski Resort on Saturday. Kelowna RCMP received a call on Saturday, April 20 about a dead body in
April 22, 2024 11:18 AM
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