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Image Credit: Submitted/Interior Health December 16, 2020 - 3:02 PM With 91 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, there have now been 2,998 Interior Health residents who have tested positive for the disease. There are now 843 active cases in the region with 28 people in hospital. Seven of those are in intensive care. Those numbers were announced at a news briefing today, Dec. 16, by Interior Health’s chief medical health officer Dr. Albert de Villiers. The death toll in...

Image Credit: Wallpaperflare.com December 17, 2020 - 12:00 PM Detailed mapping of new COVID-19 cases in the Interior Health region show a significant increase in both the Central and South Okanagan. The map shows case numbers in 31 local health areas in the Interior Health region. It was updated yesterday, Dec. 16, and contains data for the week ending Saturday, Dec. 12. That was before the cluster at Big White Ski Resort jumped to 60 people on Monday from just two on Sunday....

December 17, 2020 - 11:01 AM Legal action has been threatened against the B.C. government on behalf of relatives trying to help their loved ones in long-term care. A letter was sent to the province today, Dec. 17, after lawyers failed to get any response to an earlier request to meet and try to resolve their differences. “In the present circumstances, we consider that our clients and their loved ones have a strong basis for establishing a violation of their rights under s. ...

December 16, 2020 - 5:46 PM A Kelowna realtor has admitted to professional misconduct and will pay $6,500 to the Real Estate Council of B.C. over a 2015 real estate deal. Details of the transaction are outlined in a consent order between realtor Irene Gasser and the board that was agreed to in November but only released today, Dec. 16. Gasser was working for Prudential Kelowna Properties at the time and entered into a deal for the buyers to purchase a property on McCulloch Ro...

December 16, 2020 - 7:29 AM Every working day, care aides in long term care homes in B.C. work long and difficult hours looking after other people’s ailing parents. In May, the provincial government promised them and other front-line health care workers an extra $4 an hour in pandemic pay for hours worked between March 15 and July 4. To date, only about half have received that pay. “We are short staffed, underpaid and we give our all to other peoples mothers and fathers ...

FILE PHOTO - If you have plans to drive from the southern Interior to the Lower Mainland in the near future, you may want to reconsider. Up to 30 centimetres of snow is expected to fall on the Coquihalla Highway from Merritt to Hope and Merritt starting tomorrow, Dec. 15, 2020 creating hazardous winter driving conditions. Image Credit: tranbc.ca December 14, 2020 - 4:50 PM If you have plans to drive from the southern Interior to the Lower Mainland in the near future, you may wa...

(ROB MUNRO / iNFOnews.ca) December 13, 2020 - 7:00 AM Since much of the news in 2020 has been about COVID-19, the plight of Kelowna’s hundreds of homeless residents has slipped below the radar. That doesn’t mean they’ve gone away or been forgotten by people who work every day trying to get them housed. For the most part, those efforts have succeeded this winter. “We still have a couple of dozen folk sleeping outside at the moment,” Stephanie Ball, the executive dire...

December 11, 2020 - 8:35 AM The eight new RCMP officers approved for Kelowna for 2021 will only maintain current staffing levels and do nothing to catch up on the shortfall the local detachment chronically faces. Last year, the City approved 11 new officers for this year but they won’t likely to be on the job until January. The eight new ones approved for 2021 may be in place by the fall, but that’s not likely, Mayor Colin Basran said during budget discussions yesterday, D...

(ADAM PROSKIW / iNFOnews.ca) Plans are in the works to run a spectator-less Knox Mountain Hill Climb in 2021. That comes despite the fact that the city is considering keeping the popular road up the mountain permanently closed to vehicular traffic. “I don’t see it as having an impact in terms of the Knox Mountain Hill Climb,” Bryan Fulton, chief organizer of the Hill Climb told iNFOnews.ca. “If they closed the road for public use, it doesn’t imply they wouldn’t maintain the road ...