Health

Help for stressed parents

PRINCE GEORGE - "Today, our ministry and schools across BC are taking the best, and science-based, health advice and planning to have as many children as possible back in classrooms in September." Tha...

Sep 3, 2020

Canada signs deal with Novovax to get 76 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

OTTAWA - The federal government has a deal with a third vaccine developer to get access to an experimental COVID-19 vaccine as early as next spring. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Montreal t...

Aug 31, 2020

Kidney March still going ahead

PRINCE GEORGE - The Kidney Foundation's annual walk will be taking place this year, but it is different this year. Instead of walkers converging on Kananaskis Country, they will stay in their home com...

Aug 28, 2020

Northern Health deals with bedbugs

PRINCE GEORGE - Northern Health has had a little problem on its hands recently. A really little problem. A bedbug outbreak at Alward Place. "We first heard about the incident early this month. There w...

Aug 26, 2020

BC Seniors' Advocate launches new COVID survey

PRINCE GEORGE - BC's Seniors' Advocate has launched a new survey, looking at the impacts of visitation restrictions on those living in care. Isobel Mackenzie says, while 125 seniors living in long-ter...

Aug 26, 2020

COVID-19: Premier Horgan calling for reinforcements in appeal to younger generations

PRINCE GEORGE - Premier John Horgan is trying to appeal to a now problematic generation when it comes to the fight against COVID-19. Recent statistics released by Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie ...

Aug 13, 2020

From masks to cohorting, a guide to back-to-school rules across the country

Plans are being made across the country for how to safely send students back to school in the fall as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Here is a look at what the various provinces have said ...

Aug 11, 2020

New tent making socializing easier for those living in hospice

PRINCE GEORGE - For those living in the Prince George's Rotary Hospice House, socializing just got a lot easier.It was Executive Director Donna Flood's idea to get the approximately 500 square foot te...

Aug 10, 2020

COVID-19 outbreaks over in federal prisons, staff preparing for 'new normal'

COVID-19 outbreaks in Canada's federal prisons have been declared over, and staff and visitors are preparing for a" new normal" that could be in place for years. In March, Correctional Servi...

Aug 8, 2020

Positives from the pandemic

PRINCE GEORGE - COVID-19 has created a time of high anxiety, but there are some positives to come of the pandemic. "There are quite a few of them when you stop and look at them," says Maureen Davis wi...

Aug 7, 2020