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Osoyoos RCMP looking into incident where reporter was spat on while covering protest
The Osoyoos RCMP are following up after a Global News journalist was spat on while…
Health Minister condemns actions of B.C. protestors after journalists, student harassed
B.C.’s Health Minister Adrian Dix condemned the actions of protestors across the province and the…
Interior Health granted injunction to enforce closure order for West Kelowna gym
Interior Health's attempts to have a judge reinforce its closure order against a gym in…
Hundreds of B.C. residents in hospital with COVID
Even though the numbers are very slowly declining, there are still hundreds of people in…
Non-urgent surgeries and other cancelled health services set to resume in Interior Health
Starting Feb. 23, Interior Health will start rescheduling non-urgent surgeries that have been postponed since…
Warrant issued for organizer of Kelowna anti-COVID-19 restriction rallies
A warrant has been issued for a well-known Kelowna anti-COVID protestor who failed to show…
Working from home no longer the law in B.C.
The requirement for B.C. workers to work from home, if possible, has been rescinded by…
Hundreds of Interior Health patients waiting for surgeries to be rescheduled
In less than a month, between Jan. 17 to Feb. 11, Interior Health has postponed…
Interior Health taking notorious West Kelowna gym to court
Iron Energy Gym continues to defy public health orders despite closure orders and fines, so…
Decline in COVID hospitalizations in B.C. glacially slow
The number of people in hospital with a positive COVID test dropped by 25 today…
Level of comfort: It’s time to make your own COVID safety plan in B.C.
The time is coming fast when B.C. residents will have to decide just how comfortable…
COVID case counts continue to drop in B.C.
The number of people in hospital with a positive COVID test dropped to 787 today…
Interior Health still hardest hit by COVID hospitalizations
Even while restrictions on social gathering are being eased in B.C., the Omicron-variant wave is…
Indoor dancing and socializing set to return in B.C. as COVID restrictions eased: health officials
As expected, provincial health officials announced a gradual easing in COVID-19 restrictions that will start…
Why booster shots are important if you don’t want to get COVID
While there’s much talk about vaccine mandates being lifted and even masks coming off, for…
More than $100K in donations to convoy protestors from Kamloops, Okanagan: leak
More than $100,000 was donated to the so-called freedom convoy protest from people in Kamloops…
B.C.’s COVID-19 hospitalization numbers show improvement over weekend
While far from great, the number of people in hospital and in intensive care units…
Canadians overwhelmingly say anti-COVID mandate protests need to come to an end: survey
A new survey conducted over the weekend shows that 93% of Canadians support strong action…
iN VIDEO: RCMP investigating ‘racist rant’ by COVID mandate protestor at Oliver high school
Racist remarks were hurtled at an Oliver high school student late last week during an…
‘Thanks 4 masking’ Kelowna woman joins pro-science rally, decorates vehicle with call to support one another
A Kelowna woman is encouraging others to support one another by decorating her vehicle with…
Anti-masker gets second chance to make B.C. human rights case against Costco
An anti-masker who filed in a Human Rights Tribunal dispute against Costco, after the supermarket…
Kelowna and Kamloops hospitals still bursting at the seams with COVID patients
If you’re wondering why B.C. isn’t following Saskatchewan and Alberta in ending pandemic measures, you…
IPE, Falkland Stampede preparing to return in 2022
Two of the North Okanagan’s biggest events are planning to return after a two-year hiatus…
136 people in intensive care in B.C. hospitals as COVID refuses to ease
There was very little change in the number of people in B.C. hospitals with COVID…