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Rob Munro
Kamloops’s Royal Inland Hospital most overcrowded in B.C.
Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops is bursting at the seams with more patients than even…
Vaccines for children available in B.C. starting Monday
The Pfizer pediatric vaccine is arriving in the Lower Mainland today but it will take…
Crime returning to pre-pandemic levels in Kelowna: RCMP
As crime in the City of Kelowna returns to pre-pandemic levels, RCMP Supt. Tara Triance…
2nd atmospheric river expected to produce more runoff in flooded southern Interior towns
Another atmospheric river hitting the Lower Mainland on Thursday is going to have a follow-through…
Heavy snowfall warning for Coquihalla Highway: Environment Canada
A heavy snowfall warning has been issued for the Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt…
Kelowna starting $55M worth of flood mitigation work on Mill Creek
The City of Kelowna is about to take the first step in a six-year project…
Proposed new brewery will extend Kelowna’s growing Brewery District
Railside Brewing is hoping to open a taproom and patio less than a kilometre from…
Big, eastern investors starting to buy up Thompson-Okanagan apartments
While the rising prices of single-family homes has gotten the headlines in recent months, another…
The cost of dying in Kamloops, Okanagan is getting more expensive
The cost of burial plots in city-owned cemeteries continues to climb by as much as…
225K e-scooter rides in Kelowna triggered 211 complaints
A six-month review of Kelowna’s shared e-scooter program shows a high level of usage with…
New Costco gas bar in Kelowna to open before warehouse
Costco does not have a date to announce yet for the opening of its new…
Jump in new COVID cases in Interior Health
The Interior Health region had one of its worst days in the past month for…
Why road closures mean you can’t recycle your glass and foam in Kamloops, Okanagan
The floods and blocked highways have forced Recycle B.C. to stop, as of next Monday,…
COVID’s toll on Kelowna citizens showing up in crime stats as increase in assaults
Calls to police throughout the country dropped during the height of the COVID pandemic last…
Daily COVID case numbers turn upward with 85 in Interior Health
After a couple of days of relatively low numbers of new COVID-19 cases in the…
Expect snow in Okanagan, Kamloops through to Friday
A weather system moving into the Thompson and Okanagan regions today could bring two to…
Only 50 new COVID cases in Interior Health
The number of COVID cases in the Interior Health region continue at a fairly low…
Kelowna’s popular Knox Mountain reopens to sightseers, race cars in spring
After a two-year absence the Knox Mountain Hill Climb is returning to Kelowna for its…
Kelowna man $25,000 richer after playing Keno
Brian Noble plans on taking a vacation and buying a TV after discovering he’d won…
Interior residents stranded by closed B.C. highways don’t need COVID test to get home through U.S.
The normal requirements for Canadians returning to Canada from the U.S. by land are being…
Thompson-Okanagan school districts secretly polling teachers on COVID vaccination
Many of the school districts in the Thompson and Okanagan regions are conducting surveys of…
Kelowna 4th most expensive city in Canada to rent a home
The median rental rate for one-bedroom apartments in Kelowna increased by 3.7% in October versus…
COVID-19 restrictions may ease soon in Interior Health
For months the COVID socializing restrictions have been tougher in the Interior Health region than…
Interior Health COVID case numbers drop to lowest level in months
The 39 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the Interior Health region over the last…