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Business leaders and seniors advocates in the Interior are calling for a more regional approach to COVID-19 restrictions but the province doesn't seem to be planning a big change any time soon. Health...

B.C.'s health minister says nearly 600 people have been hired as contact tracers to follow up on chains of transmission in the province. Adrian Dix made that comment as health officials reported a new...

The BC Government will hire as many as 500 new contact tracers to help deal with a potential surge in COVID-19 cases later this year. These new contact tracers are expected to be new graduates or reti...

B.C. has set another new single day record for COVID-19 cases with 425 reported today by health officials. That includes 18 new cases in the Interior (now to 104 active cases) with 268 new cases in Fr...

The Chief Economist with the BC Real Estate Association doesn't think there will be much of a slowdown in home sales despite a request for realtors to stop holding open houses because of COVID-19. Bre...

B.C. health officials are again reminding people to keep social circles small, particularly in the Fraser Health region, the epicentre of rising case counts. Deputy Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Reka...

B.C. health officials are reporting 335 new cases of COVID-19 today, including 15 more in the Interior Health Authority. That takes the total case load in the province to 16,135 - 803 in the Interior,...

Interior Health has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at the Village at Mill Creek long-term care home in Kelowna. Two staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 and the outbreak was declared after wh...

The group representing B.C.'s 28,000 care home workers is calling for mass testing of residents and staff at facilities where someone tests positive for COVID-19. SafeCare BC CEO Jennifer Lyle says th...

The CEO of the BC Care Providers is calling for a more regional approach to long term care homes visits in the province. Terry Lake made those comments in response to what he called an excellent surve...