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The action comes after communities including Oliver, Merritt, Williams Lake and Lillooet have faced repeated ER closures driven primarily by staffing shortages.

T'itq'et First Nations members have taken matters into their own hands, forming their own emergency health response team in the wake of repeated ER closures.

The community's mayor is pushing forward with a plan that would see the construction of a multi-unit building on a parcel of land a couple of blocks away from the hospital.

Mike Goetz told Global News he was sent internal documents by non-official insider sources within Interior Health that indicate more ER closures coming.

A Sussex, N.B.. man says he was suffering a heart attack but had to wait in the parking lot of his local hospital for an ambulance because the ER was closed for the night.

The doctors’ group has released a new report calling for a greater commitment to tracking improvements in delivery and patient outcomes, citing the complexity of the deals.

While many are calling the emergency room situation 'intolerable,' British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix said 'everything possible' is being done to fix it.

More than half of ambulance calls that are placed in B.C. are assessed as non-urgent, according to the Ambulance Paramedics of BC.

Meanwhile, the mayor of one community on Haida Gwaii says the Northern Health Authority's funding should be questioned due to multiple ER closures.

Global News sat down with the leaders of B.C.'s three major parties to ask them what they see as the biggest challenges in the health-care system and what they will do about them.

In September, emergency departments at Interior Health hospitals closed about 10 times, three just over the weekend.

Frustrated Rocky Mountain House doctors say interference by Alberta Health Services has driven the community's general surgeon to leave — and it's not the first time it's happened.

The mayor of Williams Lake is calling on Interior Health to conduct an internal audit after Cariboo Memorial Hospital was temporarily closed 10 times in July.

Large sections of provincial parks in southern British Columbia remain closed after recent heavy rain and wind storms that caused flooding and damaged trails, campsites and roads.

The future of the supervised consumption site at the Sheldon Chumir Centre in Calgary's beltline could be decided Tuesday in a vote by Calgary city council.

Paul Nicholas Russell was originally sentenced to 10 years in prison after he fired multiple rounds at the Vanderhoof detachment and at unoccupied police vehicles.

The union representing firefighters says the congestion is placing pressure on drivers and causing frustration for crews. Traffic is so bad it's now a N.S. election issue.

Premier Danielle Smith says her government’s plan to restructure health care includes removing AHS as the operator of some hospitals and turn facilities over to Covenant Health.

The five people, including three minors, were arrested by Montreal police. Police say they were found 15 minutes apart possessing incendiary materials.

On Tuesday, B.C. Premier David Eby said the province struggles to maintain staffing for some of those key health-care positions, especially in rural areas.