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Interior Health staffing challenges lead to postponed surgeries, frustrated patients
KAMLOOPS - Hugh McLennan - longtime radio host, cowboy, musician and transplant recipient - has become part of another group in the Interior. He's among the many people who have had a surgical procedu...
Feb 10, 2022
B.C. COVID-19 hospitalizations drop again Thursday
VICTORIA - B.C. is continuing a downward trend in hospitalizations due to COVID-19.In a news release issued Thursday (Feb. 10), the province's Ministry of Health says hospitalizations are down 26 to 8...
Feb 10, 2022
Dropping First Nations COVID-19 infections brings hope Omicron wave has passed
OTTAWA - The Minister of Indigenous Services says the number of COVID-19 infections in First Nations communities has begun to decline, bringing hope that the worst of the Omicron wave has passed. Patt...
Feb 10, 2022
Poll: Nearly 30% of Canadians say it's time to 'learn to live' with COVID-19
A new poll suggests almost 30 per cent of Canadians believe it's time to lift pandemic restrictions and "learn to live" with the COVID-19 virus, while more than 40 per cent want measures to ease caref...
Feb 10, 2022
Kamloops advocate says drug policy change is long overdue
KAMLOOPS - B.C.'s chief coroner gave a disheartened update about the province's 2021 illicit drug death toll.With more than 2200 overdose deaths in total, B.C. saw a 26 per cent increase over 2020. Of...
Feb 09, 2022
Nicola Valley ranchers worried about flood support delays as freshet approaches
KAMLOOPS - The $228 million dollars in provincial and federal funding promised to farmers and ranchers is the largest agriculture disaster support in BC's history. Farmers impacted by November's flood...
Feb 08, 2022
MLA Stone appointed as House Leader for Official Opposition, Milobar named Finance Critic in caucus shuffle
KAMLOOPS - Both of Kamloops' members of the legislative assembly (MLA) were appointed to prominent roles in the BC Liberals' caucus on Monday (Feb. 7). Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone was appoi...
Feb 07, 2022
B.C. expected to have more than 1 million job openings in the next decade
VICTORIA - The latest labour market outlook for British Columbia shows nearly 80 per cent of job openings over the next decade will require some level of post-secondary education, reflecting the chang...
Feb 07, 2022
Governments to announce recovery plan for B.C. agriculture industry after floods
VANCOUVER - A recovery package is expected to be announced today for British Columbia's agriculture industry after devastating floods last November. The B.C. and federal agriculture ministers were sch...
Feb 07, 2022
MLA Milobar believes Falcon can 'invigorate and excite people' as new BC Liberals leader
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops-North Thompson's member of the legislative assembly (MLA) and the opposition house leader was happy to see a decisive move forward from the BC Liberals' membership.Peter Milobar ho...
Feb 06, 2022
