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Another COVID-19 outbreak has been declared in an Interior Health long-term care home. A resident of Williams Lake Seniors Village tested positive, according to a news release issued by Interior Health today, Dec. 31. When even a single case of COVID-19 is detected in a long-term care home, it’s declared an outbreak. All those who had close contact with the resident are in isolation and monitoring for symptoms, Interior Health said. The resident’s family has been notified. The home is ...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED / Province of B.C. December 30, 2020 - 12:00 PM The number of new COVID-19 cases recorded in B.C. yesterday was the lowest in more than a month at 382. That follows a steady drop over the Christmas vacation period but may not be reflective of what is actually happening in the province. “Partly, it’s people don’t want to be tested and have to isolate before this holiday, which is worrisome, because we know that people are getting together, some pe...

While the new UK variant of COVID-19 hasn’t yet spread to the community in B.C., it may just be a matter of time as it’s appearing in more and m

While every effort will be made in 2021 to get the world back to some kind of normal, it will take time to fully adjust to all the disruptions the pandemic

The much anticipated rezoning hearing to relocate the Kelowna Costco store will be held on Jan. 12.Originally scheduled for Dec. 8, that public hearing was

Image Credit: FACEBOOK / Bull Mountain Adventure Park December 29, 2020 - 11:30 AM Don Journeay has been up at 5 a.m. most mornings for more than a month building a skating rink at Bull Mountain Adventure Park in West Kelowna. It sometimes takes hours just to clear the snow before spending more hours flooding the rink. Today, Dec. 29, he went out to find the rink basically gone after someone left a hose running on it overnight. “It just breaks your heart when you look and ...

Image Credit: Submitted/Jeff Leonard December 28, 2020 - 6:00 AM When COVID-19 triggered a lockdown of businesses last spring, West Kelowna’s Mouldings and More was a key contributor to keeping some operating and helping others reopen. The demand for their talents at creating custom acrylic barriers is more refined since numerous stores are now selling “what they’re viewing as a barrier,” Tracy Spooner, a company sales rep, told iNFOnews.ca. “We’re still producing...

There have been 582 new COVID-19 cases in B.C. in the last 24 hours, including 70 in the Interior Health region, according to a joint statement released by

This is not a scene you will see in a revamped Chances Casino Kelowna when it finally reopens after being should down for the last 10 months because of COVID-19. Theres no way of knowing when the reopening will happen. Image Credit: Submitted/Chances Casino Kelowna December 24, 2020 - 1:00 PM While many businesses have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, the casino industry has been totally shuttered since the spring. In Kamloops and the Okanagan hundreds of casino employe...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED / Susan Mark December 24, 2020 - 12:00 PM Although there were 526 COVID-19 exposures in B.C.’s schools this fall, that actually only affected about 30 per cent of the province’s almost 2,000 schools, according to provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry. That includes 30 schools in the Central Okanagan school district, which had the vast majority of exposure events in the Interior Health region. An exposure event is when someone who has tested po...