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Image Credit: Tourism Kelowna May 05, 2021 - 6:00 PM The Friends of the Okanagan Rail Trail have created an app and downloadable brochure to provide trail users with more information on the route. The app has QR codes that, when scanned, provide access to an interactive map or information on interpretive sites at Carney Pond in Kelowna, Ribbleworth Falls in Lake Country and Kalamalka Lake. The trail runs 50 kilometres from downtown Kelowna to Coldstream, except for the seven ...

May 06, 2021 - 10:08 AM Traffic will be interrupted on Manhattan Drive in the north end of downtown Kelowna next week in order to bring the Okanagan Rail Trail to the waterfront. The Kelowna section of the 50 kilometre Okanagan Rail Trail runs from Kelowna International Airport to Ellis Street and is paved for that entire distance. Starting on Monday, May 10, Manhattan Drive from Sunset Drive to Ellis Street will be down to one lane of alternating traffic as work begins to ex...

May 06, 2021 - 1:00 PM As with the rest of B.C., the number of new COVID-19 cases dropped over the past week in the Interior Health region. The latest data from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control shows there were 457 new cases in the region during the week of April 25 to May 1, down from 506 the week before. This shows new cases of COVID-19 in Local Health Areas from April 25 to May 1, 2021. Image Credit: SUBMITTED/B.C. Centre for Disease Control One of the biggest drops wa...

May 05, 2021 - 3:38 PM As promised, the RCMP in B.C. have announced officers are going to start road checks to make sure people are travelling between merged health regions for essential reasons only. Police had stated that they would notify the travelling public about such checks in advance but the news release issued today, May 5, does not say what time or what days they will be in operation, just that they start tomorrow. “The checks are part of the provincial enforcemen...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Province of B.C. May 06, 2021 - 1:40 PM The number of people being infected with COVID-19 each day continues at a high rate in B.C. with 694 new cases in the last 24 hours. Of those 52 were in the Interior Health region. This comes as the vaccination process reaches a milestone. At some time today, May 6, B.C. will administer its two-millionth dose of vaccine, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said during a news briefing. “With the vaccines...

Image Credit: Contributed May 05, 2021 - 7:30 AM In the United Kingdom on the weekend 5,000 people packed into a park for an outdoor concert as part of a government research project that could open the door for similar, albeit, much smaller events in B.C. this summer. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry is monitoring what they’re doing in the U.K. where those people packed together into the relatively small Selfton Park in Liverpool for a six-hour mini-festival on Sun...

May 04, 2021 - 7:00 AM While new travel restrictions are aimed at keeping people living in COVID hotspots in the Lower Mainland from infecting the Interior, there’s no ban on Albertans travelling into B.C. from the most infected province in the country. This shows the seven-day moving average of new COVID-19 cases recorded in B.C. (left) versus Alberta since Augusts. Cases are in Green, hospitalizations in blue and deaths in red. Image Credit: B.C. Centre for Disease Control ...

May 04, 2021 - 7:30 AM The biannual testing of Canada’s Alert Ready system will hit airwaves and cell phones at 1:55 p.m. tomorrow, May 5. The test is being done as part of an ongoing effort to improve the safety of Canadians in case of a real emergency, according to a news release from the B.C. Ministry of Public Safety and Attorney General. A text message will appear on alert-compatible phones as well as being broadcast on radio and TV. It will read: "This is a TEST of t...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Province of B.C. April 30, 2021 - 4:27 PM The 740 new COVID-19 cases recorded in B.C. in the last 24 hours is the lowest daily count since March 24 when 716 cases were recorded. But the number of people in hospital and intensive care remains near record levels. Of the new cases, 92 were in the Interior Health region, which is one of the higher daily counts in recent weeks. "This weekend, remember to follow the non-essential travel restrictions as we al...

Image Credit: Facebook/Renee Merrifield Wasylyk April 30, 2021 - 7:00 AM The B.C. Liberal Health critic — Kelowna-Mission MLA Renee Merrifield — is under fire for making dubious claims and suggestions about COVID-19 to the media amid a global pandemic. Merrifield was quoted in a Kelowna publication touting the benefits of vitamin D, being fit and keeping healthy to "help fight off COVID-19”. In a recent KelownaNow article she shared to her Facebook page on Saturday, Apr...