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Upcoming episode of HGTV’s ‘Love It or List It’ to feature Kelowna couple
A Kelowna couple and their home will be featured in an upcoming episode of HGTV's Love…
Suing your drunk driver: The path taken by two Okanagan families devastated by 2014 crash
VERNON – Two families whose lives were changed forever by a drunk driver didn’t get…
‘We heart nurses’ sign pops up across from Vernon Jubilee Hospital
VERNON – Kimberley Lee has some deeply personal reasons for placing a "We heart nurses"…
Vernon woman serving time for 2014 fatal crash denied full parole due to ‘undue risk’
VERNON – A Vernon woman convicted of drunk driving causing the death of an Okanagan…
New program will see Kelowna doctors hire nurses to help share workload in family practices
KELOWNA – People without a family doctor in Kelowna could be linked up with a…
Impaired driving guilty plea expected from Vernon woman in 2014 fatal crash
VERNON – A woman accused of impaired driving causing death is expected to plead guilty…
International Overdose Awareness Day comes to Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – The Kamloops Farmers’s Market had an extra tent set up today, Aug. 31,…
Kamloops man who pleaded guilty to drunkenly assaulting nurses gets released
KAMLOOPS – A Kamloops man has been released from jail after pleading guilty to assaulting…
Trial date set for woman facing eight charges in fatal Vernon car crash
VERNON – A woman charged with impaired driving causing death in connection with a tragic…
Nurses union sounds alarm after third care-home death
SALMON ARM - The dementia patient who attacked a fellow resident at a Shuswap care home had already assaulted people at the facility, including a nurse, and was flagged as aggressive, says a spokesperson for the B.C. Nurses Union. That patient’s name has not been released, but the name of the man who wandered into...
How co-workers are supporting a Vernon nurse still recovering from accident
TWO NURSES WENT OUT ON A LATE NIGHT COFFEE-RUN FOR CO-WORKERS. ONE RETURNED IN AN AMBULANCE VERNON — The night shift nurses in Vernon Jubilee Hospital’s bustling Unit C—a section of the emergency room—have long taken turns going out on their break and bringing back coffee for the team. In the early morning hours of...