Health

Northern Health recruitment efforts full steam ahead

PRINCE GEORGE - The list of external job postings for Northern Health is lengthy and challenging for the health provider, and the recruitment efforts never end. "We continue to struggle to fill regist...

Jan 04, 2024

Kordyban Lodge turns ten

PRINCE GEORGE - It was eleven years ago that the Kordyban Lodge began to take shape, offering a total of 18 rooms with 36 beds for people with cancer and their caregivers. It opened its doors to clien...

Dec 21, 2023

Now is the time for flu shots

PRINCE GEORGE - "We're well within what we call the normal respiratory illness season for influenza right now." That from Dr. Bonnie Henry, as she prefaced her presentation on flu season with that cau...

Dec 11, 2023

New fundraising options for Festival of Trees

PRINCE GEORGE - The Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation has reached a milestone year with its major funding efforts and is switching things up. The trees are coming into play at the Conference a...

Nov 28, 2023

30th annual Festival of Trees launches tomorrow

PRINCE GEORGE - The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital of Northern BC has nine rooms and, at any given time, they are occupied with babies in need. "So the neonatal intensive care uni...

Nov 28, 2023

Funding underway for groundbreaking cancer research

PRINCE GEORGE - The BC Cancer Foundation has launched a $2.2 million fundraising campaign to support a new, cutting-edge international precision radiation clinical trial, which will be led by Dr. Rob ...

Nov 10, 2023

Paramedic training in PG?

PRINCE GEORGE - As with every community across the province, there is a dire shortage of paramedics, whether it's medical paramedics or industrial paramedics. And they are a bit different. And communi...

Oct 27, 2023

Man fined and banned from hunting after illegal killing of Roosevelt Elk near Chemainus

NANAIMO - The illegal capture and harvesting of a large elk proved costly for a Vancouver Island man.Kyle Emrys Watson-Harley was fined $5,100 and banned from hunting for two years following a sentenc...

Oct 18, 2023

BCASW blasts Bill 34

PRINCE GEORGE - That was the stance taken by the government earlier this month, when legislation was introduced to restrict where drugs could be used publicly. No more could drug use be allowed within...

Oct 12, 2023

New sobering centre opens

PRINCE GEORGE - More people in Prince George and the surrounding area have access to a new sobering centre operated by Carrier Sekani Family Services in partnership with the Province and Northern Heal...

Oct 10, 2023