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RCMP and Interior Health expanding Car 40 program in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health, in partnership with the B.C. RCMP Southeast Division, has announced changes to the PAC program in Kelowna and the Car 40 program in Kamloops that sees nurses accompany poli...
Dec 01, 2022
'The event has changed since the '90s'; Memorial Cup now a full community event
KAMLOOPS - The four best junior hockey teams in Canada will descend on Kamloops in late May for the Memorial Cup. It's the first time the tournament has been contested in Kamloops since 1995, when the...
Dec 01, 2022
B.C. teachers strongly approve three-year contract with pay boost, added benefits
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's public school teachers have ratified a new three-year contract. Nearly 50,000 members of the BC Teachers' Federation were eligible to cast a ballot and a statement from ...
Dec 01, 2022
Early retirement decisions contribute to Kamloops labour shortage
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops businesses of all sizes have struggled to find and keep employees as labour shortages plague the entire country and most of the world. Dean Stainton, vice-president of people exper...
Nov 30, 2022
Kamloops loses eight more lives due to toxic drugs in October
KAMLOOPS - Eight lives in Kamloops were lost in October due to illicit drugs.According to the latest preliminary data by the BC Coroners Service, Kamloops has 74 year-to-date total deaths in 2022 due ...
Nov 30, 2022
Absenteeism on the rise across SD73 as flu season begins
KAMLOOPS - As Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) reports an increase of children presenting with respiratory illnesses, the local school district has seen absenteeism increase in both elementary and secondar...
Nov 29, 2022
Snowfall warning issued for Kamloops area, Coquihalla
KAMLOOPS - A snowfall warning is in effect for Kamloops and area from Tuesday (Nov. 29) night to Wednesday (Nov. 30) morning.In an online weather statement, Environment Canada says around 10 to 15 cen...
Nov 29, 2022
Royal Inland seeing more young patients with respiratory illnesses
KAMLOOPS - The rate of influenza vaccines for children across the Interior Health Authority is 15 per cent lower than years past. As of Friday (Nov. 25), approximately 20 per cent of children have bee...
Nov 28, 2022
B.C. announces measures to license more internationally trained doctors
RICHMOND, B.C. - British Columbia has announced several new measures to bring more doctors to the province, amid an ongoing shortage and strained emergency departments.Premier David Eby says the provi...
Nov 27, 2022
Giant trees still fall amid old-growth funding lag for B.C. First Nations
British Columbia has asked First Nations if they want old-growth forests set aside from logging, allowing time for long-term planning of conservation and sustainable development, but it has yet to fun...
Nov 27, 2022
