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BC health minister coming to Kamloops for health-care announcement
February 07, 2024 - 5:04 PM

Kamloops residents may get some good news about the city's long-promised cancer centre tomorrow.
New North Okanagan health-care network to connect people with family doctors
February 02, 2024 - 2:19 PM

The BC government is adding 75 more health-care workers to the Vernon area, including family doctors and nurse practitioners through a primary-care network.
Kamloops cancer centre plan to be presented 'soon': health minister
January 10, 2024 - 2:35 PM

BC's health minister says plans for a Kamloops cancer centre are completed, but he hasn't any details on it yet.
Interior Health leading the way in B.C. with latest COVID variant
May 10, 2022 - 2:17 PM

As if Omicron and Omicron BA2 were not making far too many people sick with COVID-19, one of the newest and more contagious subvariants, BA2.12 has shown up in B.C. with the Interior Health region one of its primary targets.
Level of comfort: It's time to make your own COVID safety plan in B.C.
February 15, 2022 - 6:00 PM

The time is coming fast when B.C. residents will have to decide just how comfortable they are getting back to a new normal in a world where COVID is still very much with us.
COVID making thousands of B.C. health-care workers sick
January 14, 2022 - 3:30 PM

In a single week, in early January, there were at least 10,000 health-care workers off sick in B.C. with COVID-19.
B.C.'s top doctor tells schools to make plans to operate short-staffed
January 04, 2022 - 4:43 PM

Schools in B.C. are on track to fully open next week following the extended holiday break due to the surge of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
5 cases of Omicron variant detected in B.C. so far: provincial health officer
December 07, 2021 - 3:41 PM

There have now been five cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 detected in B.C.
COVID-19 outbreaks close six operating rooms in Kamloops
November 16, 2021 - 3:02 PM

Outbreaks of COVID-19 in Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops has forced the closure of six operating rooms.
COVID-19 hammering B.C. Interior’s two biggest hospitals: health officials
November 09, 2021 - 3:30 PM

The two largest hospitals in the Interior Health region are feeling the effects of the continuing spread of COVID-19.
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Iconic Penticton Peach concession stand back in local hands
After a few years with an out-of-town operator, The Peach concession stand in Penticton has a local one. Ice cream and sweets shop Tickleberry’s is going to be operating the stand this summer as well as the Skaha Main concession stand

Pennsylvania House advances bill legalizing recreational marijuana
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvanians 21 or older would be allowed to legally purchase and use marijuana under a bill that passed the state House on Wednesday, the first time a recreational cannabis proposal has been approved by either legi

New short-term rental bylaw means some in Kamloops may not be available
New licensing rules are putting pressure on Kamloops homeowners hosting short-term rentals, and some may not be allowed any longer. A new bylaw will require hosts get business licenses, bringing Kamloops in line with similar restrictions ac

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