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Covid-19
Unofficial Kamloops Remembrance Day event turned into anti-vax rally
What appeared to be a Remembrance Day event at Riverside Park in Kamloops turned out…
UPDATE: Police investigating anti-vax disruption of Kelowna Remembrance Day ceremony
Police are investigating after a Remembrance Day ceremony in Kelowna this morning was interrupted by…
COVID daily case counts remain high with 114 in Interior Health; 555 in B.C.
The number of new COVID cases in B.C. is not going down despite a slowing…
Visitors limited at Royal Inland Hospital amid COVID-19 outbreaks
Interior Health is restricting visitors at Royal Inland Hospital as it tries to grapple with…
COVID outbreaks at three Okanagan, Shuswap schools send hundreds of children home
More than 450 children were sent home from Mar Jok Elementary school in West Kelowna…
Building permits show how Thompson-Okanagan communities weathered the pandemic
Everyone in B.C. remembers the world shutting down in the spring of 2020 as the…
COVID-19 hammering B.C. Interior’s two biggest hospitals: health officials
The two largest hospitals in the Interior Health region are feeling the effects of the…
Some Okanagan, Kamloops ski resorts won’t require vaccine cards for lift tickets
Although some B.C. ski resorts have taken it upon themselves to require fully-vaccinated patrons at…
321 more Interior Health residents test positive for COVID over the weekend
There were 321 new COVID-19 positive tests over the weekend in the Interior Health region,…
37 potential COVID-19 exposures reported in Thompson, Shuswap, Okanagan schools
Within the last two weeks, 37 Thompson, Okanagan and Shuswap schools had potential COVID-19 exposures.…
More than 86% of British Columbians fully vaccinated against COVID-19
As of today, 90.2% of eligible British Columbians have received their first dose of a…
JONESIE: Finally found a great local restaurant and the inevitable happens
OPINION We’ve been dining out a lot recently. Partly pandemic support, partly our age (I…
30% of unvaccinated health-care workers in Interior Health changed their minds, got the jab
In the week after being put on unpaid leave for not being vaccinated, 30% of…
Kamloops woman concerned under-vaccinated patients not getting the same care
A Kamloops woman says a recent encounter at the hospital has her questioning the level…
COVID-19 cases climb in Interior Health region
There were 115 new cases of COVID-19 recorded in the Interior Health region in the…