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Keeping out of each other’s faces is the best way to avoid the spread of COVID-19
Keeping two metres apart is recommended for safe-distancing to prevent COVID-19 but preventing close face-to-face…
Interior Health moving patients out of Penticton hospital as wildfire precaution
Residents of a Penticton care home and the city’s hospital are being shipped out of…

None of B.C.’s 80 new COVID-19 cases are in the Interior Health region
New COVID-19 cases continue to rise with 80 in the last 24 hours across the…

Alberta prayer gathering caused COVID-19 spike in Northern B.C.
While strip clubs and raves have been spotted as recent events that have led to…
Summerland seniors home will continue to be administered by interior Health into next year
Interior Health took over the administration of the Summerland Seniors Village in February of this…

Students could be paid compensation after thousands of B.C. high school exam marks were messed up
The Ministry of Education has agreed to apologize to students after 18,741 Grade 12 final…

Two Burns Lake men identified in connection to Wet’suwet’en cabin fire
Police in Houston, B.C. have identified two men who may be charged with arson after…

You can help these Mexican workers fired from a West Kelowna nursery
A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to try to replace the income lost by two…

Okanagan Lake’s ‘full pool’ target hasn’t changed for decades, but maybe it should
Ongoing concerns about Okanagan Lake flooding has sparked the District of Peachland to suggest the…

First woman to head Kelowna RCMP detachment is returning to her hometown
After being born and raised in Kelowna, RCMP Insp. Kara Triance will return this fall…

B.C. government unveils new cancer scanner in Kelowna
A new, state-of-the-art PET/CT scanner is being set up in the B.C. Cancer centre in…

44 homes near Beaverdell put on evacuation alert as Solomon Mtn fire burns nearby
The Solomon Mountain fire is burning about four kilometres north of Beaverdell and triggered an…

Running is the new normal for long term care aides in B.C.
Even before COVID-19, life was getting tougher for care aides working in B.C.’s long term…

Burning of Wet’suwet’en cabin near site of pipeline protest called a ‘hate crime’
Months after the Wet’suwet’en ended their blockade of a forest service road near Houston, B.C.…

B.C.’s state of emergency extended to Sept. 1 as more enforcement actions are planned
The longest state of emergency in B.C.’s history was extended today, Aug. 18, for two…