News Items tag as: COVID-19

'MAJOR FATIGUE': COVID-19 not over for former Vernon man, and he isn’t alone
March 24, 2025 - 6:00 AM

Nathan Harrison had an active healthy lifestyle growing up swimming, water skiing and snowboarding in Vernon, and continued enjoying recreational activities after moving to Revelstoke where he worked as a chef for years while raising his daughter.
Penticton anti-vaxxer loses fight against BCGEU
November 30, 2024 - 6:00 AM

A Penticton anti-vaxxer has lost a fight with her union after she argued her support for the Libertarian Party's ideals was grounds for a vaccination exemption based on political belief.
COVID-19 spring booster vaccines now available throughout BC
April 08, 2024 - 3:50 PM

BC residents now have access to spring COVID-19 vaccine boosters to protect themselves from the virus.
Vernon's O'Keefe Ranch hoping for $30,000 cash infusion from city
March 08, 2024 - 11:30 AM

Historic O'Keefe Ranch could receive $30,000 from the City of Vernon as the operation struggles financially.
Organizer of anti-COVID rallies in Kelowna says injunction efforts violate his Charter rights
October 14, 2023 - 7:00 PM

It has been months since the City of Kelowna filed for an injunction to stop weekly protests in Jim Stuart Park by so-called freedom protests against COVID restrictions and vaccines.
BC health officials urge vaccination not masks as COVID cases increase
September 11, 2023 - 7:00 PM

COVID-19 is on a resurgence around the world and some jurisdictions have brought back mask mandates as a defensive tactic.
BC COVID denier guilty of assault for coughing in face of grocery store clerk
July 26, 2023 - 3:30 PM

A BC woman who coughed in the face of a supermarket employee after being told she had to social distance has been given a probation order after having been found guilty of assault.
Kelowna antivaxer sues reporters, publishers claiming defamation
July 19, 2023 - 6:00 AM

A Kelowna man filmed unleashing a racist tirade against a Sikh security guard two years ago filed a lawsuit against multiple reporters and publishers this week — including this one — claiming he was defamed.
Lytton doctor suspended for promoting 'vaccine hesitancy' suing Interior Health
April 25, 2023 - 9:43 AM

Lytton Dr. Charles Douglas Hoffe started questioning the safety of COVID vaccines shortly after they were rolled out in the spring of 2021.
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.
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A look back at the glory days of celery production in the Okanagan
Celery isn’t grown commercially locally these days, but once upon a time there were acres of it growing in the Okanagan. Kelowna resident Domenic Rampone’s family immigrated from northern Italy to Kelowna in 1893 where they grew

North Thompson woman refused home insurance over cannabis plants loses human rights case
A North Thompson woman has lost a legal battle against more than a dozen insurance companies after she was refused coverage because she grew medical cannabis on her property. According to a May 2 BC Human Rights Tribunal decision, form

Dispute between Vernon neighbours over tree pruning ends with legal challenge
A neighbourly dispute about overhanging tree branches has left a Vernon senior housing society in the red after it failed in its legal challenge to get its neighbour to pay for pruning. According to a May 27 BC Civil Resolution Tribunal dec

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