Health

Opening doors to international nurses

BC - It's is being hailed as a significant move to address the ongoing and chronic shortage of nurses in the province. "During this period of the pandemic, their value has been demonstrated and suppor...

Apr 19, 2022

To Your Health: Dandruff

.PRINCE GEORGE-Dandruff can be itchy, upsetting and sometimes embarrassing but it is a condition that can be treated. In this week's To Your Health, we took a look into the causes and solutions for th...

Greg Fry Apr 19, 2022

Local parents gather on 6th anniversary of overdose crisis

PRINCE GEORGE - April 14, 2022 marks six years since BC declared a public health emergency due to the province's opioid overdose crisis.Local parents gathered outside the office of local MP Todd Doher...

Apr 14, 2022

Toxic drug overdoses claim 174 more lives

VICTORIA-In February 2022, 174 people across the province died of illicit drug overdoses, the Northern Health region had 13 of those deaths according to the BC Coroners Service. Prince George saw 16 i...

Apr 12, 2022

Vanderhoof business faces $5,000 in fines from WorkSafeBC

VANDERHOOF-Everything for Ewe, a store that provides bedding, knitting supplies, meat directly from the owner's farm and shipping services in Vanderhoof is in the middle of an appeal with WorkSafeBC. ...

Apr 08, 2022

Magnetic Slime Robot Could Someday Be Used Retrieve Swallowed Objects

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Each year, thousands of children swallow objects not suited for human consumption with no other option but to wait for time - and the digestive system - to...

Ripley's Believe It or Not! Apr 08, 2022

1 dead in helicopter crash near Sayward

CAMPBELL RIVER - A pilot was killed in a helicopter crash near Sayward, north of Campbell River.A news release from Island District RCMP stated Sayward RCMP were informed on Wednesday, April 6 at arou...

Apr 06, 2022

Fourth vaccine dose coming to B.C. soon; vaccine card requirement to be dropped Friday

VICTORIA-Effective Friday, April 8, 12:01 a.m. you will no longer need your vaccine card to enter most places.The Ministry of Health announced today that it will be ending the BC Vaccine Card requirem...

Apr 05, 2022

NACI: Provinces should prep to offer 2nd COVID-19 booster shots

OTTAWA - The National Advisory Committee on Immunization says provinces and territories should rapidly prepare to offer fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the coming weeks. The committee says govern...

Apr 05, 2022

Cancer Centre for the North needs help

PRINCE GEORGE - Since opening its doors in November 2012, the BC Cancer Centre for the North has treated thousands of patients. But cancer treatment is an evolving science and the researchers here nee...

Apr 04, 2022