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Ashcroft Sep 28, 2022 / 4:00 am
A new urgent and primary care centre has opened in Ashcroft, inside the building formerly known as the Ashcroft Hospital and Community Healthcare...
Ashcroft Apr 16, 2021 / 7:36 pm
The emergency room at Ashcroft Hospital will close a number of times this weekend due to staffing limitations, Interior Health says. In a news release...
Ashcroft Oct 19, 2020 / 2:55 pm
John Horgan has promised to make the Ashcroft Hospital a 24/7 operation if re-elected. The hospital often closes due to a lack of staff and shuts down...
Ashcroft Dec 3, 2021 / 3:58 pm
Those looking for overnight emergency medical care in the Ashcroft area will be out of luck this weekend. According to Interior Health, the emergency...
Ashcroft Jun 11, 2021 / 12:01 pm
The emergency department at Ashcroft Hospital will be closed this weekend due to staffing shortages, Interior Health says. According to a bulletin...
Ashcroft Dec 16, 2021 / 8:46 pm
Interior Health is advising residents of a temporary change to the emergency department hours at the Ashcroft and Community Health Care Centre this...
Ashcroft Aug 27, 2021 / 6:00 pm
The emergency department at Ashcroft Hospital will be closed for part of this weekend due to staffing shortages, Interior Health says. According to a...
Ashcroft/Clearwater Sep 2, 2022 / 7:00 pm
UPDATE 7 p.m. The emergency department at Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital will be closed yet again on Saturday night. The ER will be closed from 6 p.m....
Ashcroft Apr 1, 2022 / 5:34 pm
Interior Health has announced the emergency department at the Ashcroft Hospital and Community Health Care Centre will be closed this weekend. The...
Ashcroft Jan 16, 2022 / 8:40 pm
The Ashcroft Hospital and Community Health Care Centre has closed the emergency department Sunday night due to limited staffing availability. The...
Ashcroft Jan 7, 2022 / 4:11 pm
The emergency department at Ashcroft Hospital and Community Health Care Centre is closed this weekend due to limited staff availability. According to...
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Ashcroft Jul 14, 2019 / 7:03 am
A petition to save emergency services at Ashcroft Hospital and Community Health Care Centre has received 2,000 signatures from local residents. The...
Kamloops Jan 5, 2023 / 3:35 pm
Interior Health says nearly all staff positions have been filled at Ashcroft’s Urgent and Primary Care Centre, a new facility operating inside...
Clearwater Jul 29, 2022 / 4:24 pm
UPDATE: 4:24 p.m. The Ashcroft Emergency Department will be closed Friday night due to limited staffing. According to a news release from Interior...
Ashcroft Dec 17, 2022 / 4:52 pm
The Ashcroft Urgent and Primary Care Centre will see a temporary change in hours this weekend due to staffing limitations, Interior Health says....
Ashcroft Jul 2, 2020 / 4:51 pm
A two-vehicle collision south of Ashcroft on Canada Day resulted in the death of a 51-year-old man from Vanderhoof. In a news release, police say the...
Ashcroft Dec 20, 2019 / 10:40 am
Ashcroft RCMP are investigating after a train collided with a vehicle Thursday and the driver walked away with non-life-threatening injuries. The man...
Ashcroft Dec 30, 2016 / 8:06 pm
Two semi-trailers crashed into each other on Highway 1 this afternoon claiming one life. The driver of the northbound semi was killed at the junction...
Kamloops Dec 20, 2019 / 5:55 pm
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BC wildfires Jul 8, 2017 / 6:53 pm
Interior Health CEO Chris Mazurkewich has issued the following statement on the B.C. wildfire crisis and IH's response to keep patients safe:...
Ashcroft/Clearwater Jul 15, 2022 / 3:52 pm
More hospital emergency department closures in B.C. Interior Interior Health has announced the Ashcroft emergency department will be closed this...
Ashcroft Jun 24, 2019 / 2:36 pm
RCMP are investigating an assault on a four-year-old boy who was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police say a woman reported to an off-duty...
Merritt Apr 9, 2023 / 6:15 am
Merritt residents are once again without an emergency department Sunday due to staffing shortages. Interior Health announced late Saturday that Nicola...
Kamloops Mar 31, 2023 / 4:00 am
After much debate, Thompson Regional Hospital District directors adopted a bylaw containing Interior Health's major capital funding requests for...
Merritt Nov 15, 2021 / 5:01 pm
UPDATE: 5:01 p.m. With the Coldwater River surging, Interior Health is moving hospital patients and long-term care facility residents out of Merritt...
Kamloops Jul 15, 2021 / 5:16 pm
Residents in two Kamloops-area communities are being told they may have to travel further for X-rays in the coming months due to staffing shortages....
Kamloops Apr 15, 2021 / 2:20 pm
An Ashcroft man was arrested Wednesday night after allegedly threatening police. Kamloops Mounties were called just before 10 p.m.with “a threat...
Ashcroft Dec 24, 2014 / 11:00 am
Two people have lost their lives after a head-on crash near Ashcroft. The two-vehicle crash happened Tuesday evening on the Trans-Canada Highway near...
BC Interior Jan 18, 2022 / 3:47 pm
Omicron-related staffing challenges have forced Interior Health to make a number of temporary service cuts, as healthcare workers call in sick at...
Kamloops May 7, 2023 / 4:00 am
A rookie train-hopper who was injured while riding the rails west of Kamloops says he’ll never do it again. Darin Wayne Friesen, 34, was...