Interior Health has declared an outbreak at Brocklehurst Gemstone Care Centre, a long-term care home. Four residents have tested positive for COVID-19. Everyone in close contact with these individuals are in self-isolation and monitoring for symptoms. Gemstone is privately operated by Trellis Seniors Services Ltc. It has 125...

Interior Health (IH) has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at Cariboo Memorial Hospital.   There is no evidence of patient exposure related to this outbreak, however, four staff members have tested positive for COVID-19.   Interior Health would like to assure the community that it is safe to come to the hospital for medical care...

Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, and Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, have issued the following joint statement regarding updates on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) response in British Columbia: “Today, we are reporting on three periods. From Jan. 8 to 9, we had 538 new cases. From Jan. 9 to 10, we had 507...

Ed. Note: the following is a statement Castlegar Councillor Florio Vassilakakis posted on his Facebook page, re=published with his permission: I have taken a few days to think about the surprising events that have transpired during the last week in Castlegar. Mayor Tassone appears to have been under extraordinary personal...

A man now faces a number of potential impaired driving and drug related charges after police stopped a vehicle being driven in a dangerous manner Tuesday afternoon, according to Castlegar top cop RCMP Sgt. Monty Taylor. "On Jan. 5, 2021 at approximately 1:30 p.m., a front line Castlegar RCMP officer conducted a traffic stop...

An incident in Rossland Christmas Eve has RCMP explaining why a Kelowna man was not ticketed for failure to comply with Covid-19 mask requirements. “On Dec. 31, 2020 at 1 p.m., a front line Trail and Greater District RCMP officer responded to a complaint about a 55-year-old Kelowna man who allegedly declined to wear a […]

A Ymir man will be facing charges after police found drugs in his home, according to Salmo top cop Cpl. Darryl Orr. On Jan. 8, at roughly 4 p.m., Salmo RCMP responded to a residence in Ymir during a routine call for service. "While at the residence RCMP members discovered illegal drugs in plain view," Orr said. "The male home...

The BC SPCA is reminding the public of the importance of spaying or neutering their pets after 23 rabbits were recently surrendered to SPCA facilities in the Kootenays.   The bunnies, who are between eight and 20 weeks old (with the exception of one adult), were brought into the East and West Kootenay shelters last month as...

Earlier today Bruno Tassone tendered his resignation from his role as Mayor of the City of Castlegar. Council and staff are processing this news and are committed to ensuring the services residents expect from the City are not disrupted and restoring the City’s full Council complement. With the Mayor’s resignation, Council ...

While the entire province of BC is reporting 761 new cases of Covid-19 overnight, with eight new deaths, IHA says this region alone saw 98 new cases., as per the following press release: "IH is reporting 96 new cases overnight for a total of 4,406. o   Note: a change was announced today to daily reporting, see below**...