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City to close playground equipment to ensure social distancing compliance
The city of Kamloops is closing 46 city-run playground equipment effective immediately, to encourage compliance with social distancing measures. The city will also be installing signs about social dis...
Mar 23, 2020
Fire crews attacking 150-hectares wildfire near Lytton
The BC Wildfire Service is making progress on a 150 hectare wildfire north of Lytton, between Highway 12 and Highway 1. Information officer Taylor MacDonald says the Alkaki Road fire has been burning ...
Mar 23, 2020
B.C. reports 48 new cases and three COVID-19 related deaths since Saturday
B.C.'s Provincial Health Officer says the province has 48 new cases of COVID-19 since Saturday's update, for a total of 472 cases, 30 of which are in the Interior Health area. Three new deaths also be...
Mar 23, 2020
Going 'all in' on COVID-19 will help save lives says BC's Health Minister
B.C.'s Health Minister is once again reminding people that everyone has to pitch in over the coming days to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus across the country. Adrian Dix says doctors and nu...
Mar 23, 2020
PM says 500,000 applications for Employment Insurance in one week shows the economic impact of COVID-19
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says half a million Canadians applying for Employment Insurance (EI) last week, shows the economic impact of COVID-19 in Canada. Speaking on Saturday, Justin Trudeau was ...
Mar 23, 2020
Sun Peaks doctor is that community's first confirmed COVID-19 case
The Resort Municipality of Sun Peaks says Dr. Chip Bantock is the communities first confirmed case of COVID-19. "We had chosen to keep Dr. Bantock' s name confidential immediately following the positi...
Mar 22, 2020
No doctor in B.C. will have to decide who lives and who dies in hospital due to COVID-19 says Dr. Bonnie Henry
B.C.'s Medical Health Officer says no doctor will have to decide on their own who lives and who dies based on ventilator shortages, should the COVID-19 pandemic worsens in Canada. Dr. Bonnie Henry was...
Mar 21, 2020
BC Health Minister pleased to see Canada-U.S. border closed to non-essential travel
BC's Health Minister is pleased that the border between Canada and the United States has closed to non-essential travel as of Friday night. Adrian Dix says essential workers like truck drivers and hea...
Mar 21, 2020
BC Housing Minister says help is on the way for renters, vulnerable people during the COVID-19 crisis
In a bid to protect some of the province's most vulnerable people during the COVID-19 pandemic, the BC Government is banning evictions for non-payment of rent in all BC Housing-funded buildings. The m...
Mar 21, 2020
Updated - B.C. has 76 new COVID-19 cases, and one death; salons, spas now ordered to close
B.C.'s top doctor is reporting another 76 new COVID-19 cases for a total of 424 cases in the province, the most in Canada. Dr. Bonnie Henry says eight of the new cases are in the Interior Health Autho...
Mar 21, 2020
