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Nurses rally at Merritt's hospital demanding better security and more staff
April 17, 2024 - 2:30 PM
Nurses at the Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt spent the lunch hour today protesting staffing shortages and demanding increased security.
UBCO program to reduce diabetes risk expands across Canada
April 10, 2024 - 7:00 PM
A UBC Okanagan professor created a program in collaboration with the YMCA that offers diet and exercise counselling to lower the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and it will soon be available across the country.
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.
HIDDEN EXPENSES: Salmon Arm family struggles after daughter's life-threatening diagnosis
March 29, 2024 - 7:00 AM
For Jerica Armitage, a mother and hospital staffing clerk from Salmon Arm, the hidden expenses of British Columbia’s medical system added an unexpected pressure to her daughter’s diagnosis.
UBC medical students offering free online program with a focus on prevention
March 15, 2024 - 10:41 AM
Students from UBC's medical school are offering a free preventive online health-care service available for free to any BC resident.
How to improve primary care services: Salmon Arm man takes part in provincial study
March 05, 2024 - 6:00 AM
A Salmon Arm man spent just over a year working on a research project doing a deep dive into primary care in B.C.
Sicamous using tax dollars to ensure family doctors come to town and stay
January 10, 2024 - 6:00 AM
The shortage of family doctors has been an ongoing and growing concern across the country but no more so than in small towns like Sicamous in the Shuswap.
The number of British Columbians willing to pay for healthcare services is on the rise
December 17, 2023 - 4:30 PM
A growing number of British Columbians think the province needs to explore different options in health care.
Rutland's healthcare services just got more accessible
November 21, 2023 - 12:30 PM
Healthcare in Rutland is set to become more accessible with two new health centres opening to the community.
BC politician lobbying for radiation unit for rural patients travelling to Kelowna hospital
October 01, 2023 - 12:30 PM
While Thompson-Okanagan residents have felt the pinch of an overstretched health-care system, a BC MLA says it's even more difficult in rural areas farther outside Kelowna and Kamloops.
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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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UBCO not releasing engineering reports for downtown excavation that caused evacuation
UBC won't make public the engineering reports for the construction site in downtown Kelowna that caused the evac
April 23, 2024 7:00 AM
iN PHOTOS: Nature lovers celebrate flora, fauna for Earth Day in Kamloops, Okanagan
Photographers are sharing their favourite photos of flora and fauna captured in Kamloops and the Okanagan in celebra
April 23, 2024 6:00 AM
The Latest | Failed rocket strike launched on US-led coalition forces base in Syria
A failed rocket strike was launched at a base housing U.S.-led coalition forces at Rumalyn, Syria, marking the first ti
April 22, 2024 9:30 PM
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
April 22, 2024 9:00 PM
Consciousness a 'realistic possibility' in birds, fish, squid and bees, scholars say
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Scientists and philosophers across the globe agree it is reasonable to assume the vast majori
April 22, 2024 7:00 PM
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