healthcare

Why your local vet clinic is likely owned by an international corporation
Dr. Adrian Helmers opened her own veterinary practice in Kamloops in an effort to escape…

B.C. health authorities watching for COVID-19 spike after mask mandates lifted
As B.C. is set to remove mask mandates tomorrow, health authorities are watching for COVID-19…

This year’s summer camps in B.C. won’t have COVID restrictions
Parents can start planning to send their children to summer camp this summer, as COVID-19…

Long-term care visits almost back to normal in B.C.
B.C. residents can go back long-term care centres to visit their family members and loved…
Health Minister condemns actions of B.C. protestors after journalists, student harassed
B.C.’s Health Minister Adrian Dix condemned the actions of protestors across the province and the…

Interior Health health-care workers get free passes for Big White Ski Resort
Health care workers from the region are being treated to free lift tickets at Big…

Interior Health granted injunction to enforce closure order for West Kelowna gym
Interior Health's attempts to have a judge reinforce its closure order against a gym in…

West Kelowna gym handed 21 tickets from Interior Health for public health order violations
Interior Health has issued 21 tickets to a West Kelowna gym for each day the…

Almost 900 Interior Health employees terminated due to vaccine mandate
Health-care staff shortages have put pressure on Interior Health to cut services in rural communities…

Petition demands end to pay parking for workers at B.C. hospitals
A B.C. nurse is calling for the end of pay parking for all health-care workers…

Indigenous artist selected to lead design of ‘cultural wall’ at Kamloops’s Royal Inland Hospital
Secwepemc and Nlaka'pamux artist Chris Bose will lead the design of a new "cultural wall"…

Defiant West Kelowna gym amasses support from municipal, provincial officials
The local MLA along with at least three West Kelowna city councillors have voiced their…

iN VIDEO: Kelowna child with cancer has to leave Ronald McDonald house because parents refused vaccine
A child with leukemia may be forced to leave the Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver…

iN VIDEO: Anti-maskers arrested, fined at Kamloops Superstore
A group of anti-maskers was kicked out of a Kamloops grocery store last night and…

B.C. urban mayors renew call for complex care for vulnerable people across B.C.
Mayors representing more than half of British Columbians are renewing their pleas for the province…