Health

VIDEO: 90-year-old Nanaimo gardener takes landscaping to another level

NANAIMO - Maintaining his flawless half acre Nanaimo property offers Leo Katila the gift of being excited to wake up every morning.The 90-year-old's lot is often mistaken for a public park, where a wi...

Apr 04, 2022

B.C. passes 3,000 COVID-19 deaths

VICTORIA-British Columbia has surpassed the grim milestone of 3,000 deaths since the COVID-19 pandemic began.The Ministry of Health reported in today's update that four more people have died from COVI...

Apr 01, 2022

Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation announces Aimee Cassie as new CEO

PRINCE GEORGE - Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation announced Aimee Cassie is taking over as CEO effective March 31. Cassie spent six years previously working with the Canadian Cancer Society (C...

Mar 31, 2022

Adolescent calming room opens in northern B.C. hospital

PRINCE GEORGE - The University Hospital of Northern B.C. in partnership with the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation is opening its Adolescent Calming Room. The new installment in the hospital's...

Greg Fry Mar 30, 2022

Civic Centre vaccine clinic moving April 1

PRINCE GEORGE - The COVID-19 vaccine clinic that currently calls the Prince George Conference and Civic Centre home is moving on April 1, 2022.The vaccine clinic will be moving in with the current tes...

Mar 29, 2022

Orthopaedic surgeon waitlist ballooning

PRINCE GEORGE - Operating rooms in every BC hospital have been catching up with surgeries that have been cancelled as a result of the pandemic. The Health Ministry says it has caught up on all the can...

Mar 25, 2022

Free rapid tests for adults 18+ now available at B.C. pharmacies

NANAIMO - Any adult in B.C. can now get a free rapid antigen COVID-19 test kit through community pharmacies. The provincial government said starting Wednesday, March 23 any B.C resident 18 years of ag...

Mar 23, 2022

Eight more dead from COVID over weekend

VICTORIA - Five-hundred and six new cases have been reported across the province in today's COVID update. Eight new deaths occurred over the weekend with one being from the Northern Health region. The...

Greg Fry Mar 21, 2022

Six more dead in today's B.C. COVID update

VICTORIA - Six more covid deaths were reported across the province in the last 24 hours. None were from the Northern Health region. The Ministry of Health is reporting 199 new COVID cases across the p...

Mar 18, 2022

Northern B.C. sees 2 more COVID deaths in latest report

VICTORIA - Seven more people have died across the province in the Ministry of Health's latest report Including two from the Northern Health region.B.C. saw 240 new cases reported in the last 24 hours....

Mar 17, 2022