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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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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are emailed reader responses to stories for the last week of March 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjones@infonews.ca .
Okanagan summer concert series features Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies
A star-studded lineup is coming to a concert series in the Okanagan this summer. The Mission Hill Family Estate Winery has announced the performers coming to West Kelowna in July. Award winning artists Barenaked Ladies are playing Jul
RCMP raid illegal cannabis concentrate lab in Boundary region
Midway RCMP raided a clandestine laboratory for producing a cannabis concentrate in Beaverdell this week. The lab made a cannabis concentrate known as shatter, which can be made using butane creating a dangerous situation when done improper
Manhattan Point homeowners vow to fight Kelowna in court over future parks designation
Property owners on what amounts to a private beach on Okanagan Lake say it’s illegal for the city to designate their properties for future parks and they will take all legal steps possible to stop them. The city wants to designate 10
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UPDATE: Kamloops mayor suspends city's top employee
Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson is giving the city's top employee the boot, claiming it's time for a "new direction." Acting chief administrative officer Byron McCorkell
March 27, 2024 1:50 PM
'Trying to cope': Merritt father desperate to find missing daughter
A father in Merritt is desperately searching for his daughter since she went missing almost two months ago. Patrick Moran’s daughter Tara Moran, 27, was last seen in Merritt on Jan. 31
March 25, 2024 7:00 AM
No better time for Big White residents to raise their voices with big changes in the works
Kelly Blair first moved into The Rock at Big White Ski Resort near Kelowna 40 years ago and now owns, and at times rents out, the classic structure with real climbing rocks indoors. His view
March 27, 2024 7:00 AM
Manhattan Point homeowners vow to fight Kelowna in court over future parks designation
Property owners on what amounts to a private beach on Okanagan Lake say it’s illegal for the city to designate their properties for future parks and they will take all legal steps possible t
March 27, 2024 7:49 AM
RCMP close Highway 97 in Kelowna for unfolding incident
Highway 97 between Sexsmith and Edwards roads has been closed by the RCMP this afternoon. An “unfolding incident” requiring a heavy police presence was unfolding in the 100 block
March 27, 2024 3:33 PM
Crews to search underwater in Kal Lake for missing North Okanagan man
The search for a missing Coldstream man is going underwater more than three months after he went missing. Vernon North Okanagan RCMP will begin using sonar equipment on Kalamalka Lake this w
March 27, 2024 8:52 AM
iN PHOTOS: Cats lounge on tiny custom couches made in Kamloops
Miniature crocheted couches for cats appear to be a hit and the cats look undeniably adorable lying on them. The unique pet accessories are handmade by Kamloops resident Laurie Waddell who
March 27, 2024 6:00 AM
Vernon businessperson fights City Hall in court, and wins
Yuri Bos has been trying for more than a year to get a business licence so he can lease two parcels of his commercial land in the 4600 block on 34 Street in Vernon. For some undisclosed reas
March 26, 2024 6:00 PM
iN PHOTOS: Wet, wild and wonderful waterfalls in Kamloops, Okanagan
There's something enchanting and mesmerizing about waterfalls with their misty sprays and captivating sounds, and every one of them is completely different. There are many places to find
March 26, 2024 6:00 AM
Judge tosses will from 'predatory' wife who married disabled Vernon man
The family of an intellectually disabled Vernon man will reclaim their family’s inheritance against a legal challenge from a woman who said she married their brother in secret. Raymer
March 21, 2024 6:00 PM
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