Covid-19

Okanagan jobs at risk as Canadian government returns to China for PPE
It was just over a year ago that Okanagan distilleries – along with their contemporaries…

More than 30% of new COVID-19 cases in B.C. in Interior Health
With 14 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Interior Health region recorded…

COVID-19 outbreak declared at Royal Inland Hospital: Interior Health
There has been an outbreak of COVID-19 on a surgical unit at the Royal Inland…

B.C. records 29 new cases of COVID-19; 10 in Interior Health
New cases of COVID-19 have fallen to reassuring lows in B.C. There were 29 new…

Mandatory mask wearing order lifted in B.C.; social restrictions eased
B.C. is ready to shed the strictures of pandemic life and people are going to…

B.C.’s restart likely headed into next phase this week: Dr. Bonnie Henry
“Things are looking really good” for B.C. moving into the next stage of its restart…

‘She was really, really sweet’: Dr. Henry has lunch at Kelowna sandwich shop
Employees and the owner of a Kelowna sandwich shop were happy B.C.’s top doctor stopped…

Drop-ins now accepted at any Interior Health COVID-19 vaccination clinic for 1st shots
With more than 735,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in the Interior Health region there’s…

Interior Health records lowest daily COVID case count in months
The 12 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the Interior Health region in the last…

Interior Health has nearly half of all new COVID cases in B.C. today
Interior Health had nearly half of all new COVID-19 cases reported in B.C. today. In…

Not until September will B.C. catch Alberta on the COVID freedom front
Despite having higher infection and lower vaccination rates than B.C., Albertans will throw off all…

Kelowna woman refuses to give up on investigation into mother’s care in home
As if it wasn’t enough for Bev Ambler to give up her job as a…

Summer of ‘hope and healing’ on the agenda so long as COVID-19 jabs keep rolling out
Case counts are continuing to fall while vaccination numbers rise, setting the stage for a…

Kelowna private school grads each get $500 anonymous gift
When Lance and Tammy Torgerson announced they would offer $500 to every Kelowna graduate —…

B.C. health officials encourage first jabs as COVID case counts under 100 a day over weekend
B.C.'s daily COVID-19 case count was under 100 for three days running, health officials reported…