Health
How Interior Health is planning to tackle RIH understaffing issues
An Interior Health vice-president has relocated to Kamloops and its president and CEO, Susan Brown,…
Thousands in Kamloops, Kelowna still waiting for postponed orthopaedic surgeries
Despite the B.C. government’s statement that it has caught up on almost all surgeries postponed…
‘Critically understaffed’: Primary care centres not much help to those without family doctors in Okanagan, Kamloops
Kelowna’s Urgent and Primary Care Centre is fully staffed but the clinic in Kamloops is…
Kamloops ER had less than 50% staffing on long weekend: B.C. Liberals
Despite putting out an urgent call last week for Interior Health staff to work shifts…
No monkeypox in B.C. yet despite reports
The growing concern about the international spread of monkeypox has reached B.C., but not the…
Community support emphasized at syilx Nation Drug Forum
During the annual syilx Nation Drug Forum on May 13, syilx people from across the…
B.C. man and his dog raising awareness for victims of elder abuse
Frank Sapach is cycling across Canada with his five-year-old German Shepherd Samantha safely in a…
Kamloops dog impaled by stick in freak fetch accident on the mend
CONTENT ADVISORY Clinton Kay and his wife feared the worst when a stick lodged right…
‘Exhausting and heartbreaking’: The other side of eased COVID measures in B.C.
“Since protections lifted, I don’t leave the house,” says Jaigris Hodson. Hodson is being treated…
Two-thirds of B.C. residents say NDP have done good job handling COVID: poll
The B.C. NDP's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic makes it as one of the most…
Hospitalizations from COVID in B.C. continue steady decline
Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 continue to steadily decline in B.C. The number of people in hospital…
Number of B.C. patients in hospital with COVID slowly declines
The number of people hospitalized in B.C. with COVID-19 saw another slight drop in the…
Another dust advisory issued for Vernon
The provincial government has issued a dust advisory for Vernon. The Ministry of the Environment…
Experts reject B.C.’s safe drug supply claims
Seventeen months after the B.C. government committed to expanding safe supply, only about 500 people…
BGC Kamloops seeing spike in youth seeking help
At least one Kamloops teenager died from a suspected drug overdose in the community within…