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Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Province of B.C. April 30, 2021 - 11:13 AM Road checks set up to stop non-essential travel between the Interior Health region and the Lower Mainland will only question the reason the driver is making the trip. Passengers will not be questioned Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said during a news briefing today, April 30, but he did not give a clear explanation as to why not. “The order was constructed on the basis of lega...

April 30, 2021 - 2:39 PM Despite a high rate of vaccination — 90 percent — 24 people living in the Sandalwood Retirement Resort in Kelowna have tested positive for COVID-19. An outbreak was declared at the independent living facility on April 23 and the number of positive cases has since grown to 26, with 24 of them residents. One person has died. “They’ve got a really high vaccination rate... The staff vaccination rate is very high as well,” Interior Health’s chi...

April 29, 2021 - 11:00 AM While the number of new COVID-19 cases in the Interior Health region has dropped during the past week, there were slight increases in both Kamloops and Penticton. Both cities had two more cases in the week of April 18 to 24 than the week before, with Kamloops having 46 cases and Penticton recording 30. The Central Okanagan dropped to 215 new cases from 242, and Vernon dropped to 36 from 41, according to data released yesterday, April 28, by the B.C. ...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED / Province of B.C. April 29, 2021 - 1:47 PM Hospitalization and intensive care cases are at their highest levels of the COVID-19 pandemic in B.C., That from provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry during a news conference today, April 29. There were 874 new cases in the last 24 hours in B.C., including 60 in the Interior Health region. The one death in the last 24 hours in the province was in the Interior Health region but no further details were pr...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED / Province of B.C. April 29, 2021 - 2:58 PM Ongoing problems with the supply of COVID-19 vaccines has thrown a wrench into the province’s vaccination plans for front line workers. That should start to change next week even though the supply of AstraZeneca vaccine has dried up. The province expects to start receiving shipments of the Johnson & Johnson Janssen single dose vaccine next week. So far, about 180,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have be...

Image Credit: FACEBOOK/PLANKelowna April 28, 2021 - 7:30 AM It was May 2020 when the City of Kelowna halted work on a long-awaited pathway connecting Strathcona Park, near Kelowna General Hospital, to a beach on Okanagan Lake at the end of Royal Avenue. The delay was because an artifact was found by workers. That work has restarted. "It takes awhile to get the approvals and they (senior government) have a consultation process through the First Nations so there’s a time peri...

(ROB MUNRO / iNFOnews.ca) April 27, 2021 - 7:30 AM West Kelowna only needs 102 more residents to become the fourth largest city in the Thompson-Okanagan, ahead of Penticton. Population estimates put out each year by the Province of B.C. show that West Kelowna grew by 1.5 per cent from 2019 to 2020, gaining 533 new residents. By contrast, Penticton only grew by 0.6 per cent, adding 221 new residents. “West Kelowna continues to attract residents who are seeking to live, work...

The Okanagan is such a tourist destination that weathered the 2020 pandemic better than most, Jarrett said. “Kamloops has a slightly different demand mechanism,” she said. “They have more essential travel because of the pipeline and mining so they have a lot of big construction and big industry projects there where the Okanagan is more leisure-orientated.” Travelling for work is considered essential so the travel restrictions may have less of an impact in Kamloops, but Jarrett won’...

Image Credit: newmonaco.ca April 24, 2021 - 6:30 AM A massive housing, commercial and educational development is gearing up to start building as many as 2,800 homes on the northern end of Peachland. The New Monaco project – estimated to be worth $1 billion on a B.C. Government major projects report – will be built on 125 acres between Highway 97 and the Okanagan Connector. “It seems they have been fairly active the lasts couple of weeks,” Darin Schaal, Peachland’s ...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED / RCMP RCMP are asking for the publics help to find a missing Kamloops teenager. Teesha Danroth, 17, was last seen on the North Shore in Kamloops on April 19, according to an RCMP media release. RCMP describe Danroght as an Indigenous girl, 5’0” tall, weighing 100 lbs. with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing black leggings, black T-shirt, grey sweater and pink shoes. Anyone with information is asked to call Kamloops RCMP at 250-828-3000 and ref...