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Interior Health fined $274,000 after Penticton hospital staff exposed to illicit drugs
The Interior Health Authority has been fined $274,000 after two workers fell ill after entering…
Interior Health asks local governments to pause plans to ban open drug use in parks
Interior Health has emailed all municipalities in the Southern Interior, asking the local governments to…
Citizen committee to take action against criminal activity on Kamloops’s North Shore
Kamloops resident Leah Moss is fed up with the criminal activity and open drug use…
‘Zombie-like?’ Why Interior Health is challenging the words we use for drug users
KAMLOOPS – As B.C. continues to find ways out of the current opioid overdose crisis,…
Will B.C. try to decriminalize drug users?
KELOWNA – One of the province's top doctors is expected to release an important report…
Overdose prevention site set for Vernon, but details vague
VERNON – Interior Health is bringing an overdose prevention site to Vernon, but the where,…
Five Kamloops council candidates who think the city is responsible for drug, street issues
KAMLOOPS – Kamloops, like many communities across North America, has seen an increase in street…
Why all those discarded needles are signs of progress for HIV, Hep C in Southern Interior
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Nearly 400 new Hepatitis C cases and as many as 15 HIV cases…
Vernon shelter believes safe drug use area would reduce overdoses, discarded needles
VERNON – With no supervised drug consumption site currently available in Vernon, one local agency…
ASK Wellness sees upwards of 30 people a day at supervised drug site in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – The customized bus that operates as the mobile drug consumption unit in Kamloops…
McDONALD: Kelowna is learning — again — that homelessness is not a simple problem
OPINION They came at dawn, as expected, but still to good effect. With flashlights drawn,…
Smoke break proves costly for Summerland man
PENTICTON - A stop for a quick smoke—of illicit materials—cost a Summerland man his freedom earlier this week. On February 2, Penticton RCMP were notified of a male smoking drugs in a vehicle parked in the Lakeside Resort parking lot. Police attended the scene, but the driver had departed. Police had a description of the...