Author Archives: James Peters

MERRITT, B.C. - The City of Merritt was put under a full evacuation order on Monday morning, still many in the community made the choice to stay, and now some are apparently angry with City Hall.The c...

KAMLOOPS - The highway damage caused by the atmospheric river storm Sunday (Nov. 14) and Monday is starting to play havoc with the Kamloops Blazers schedule.The team was scheduled to play the Victoria...

KAMLOOPS - As highways between the Interior and the Lower Mainland remain closed for repairs, concern is growing about how local grocery stores will receive meat and produce deliveries.Shoppers have a...

KAMLOOPS - The week of Oct. 31 to Nov. 6, 2021, was challenging for Local Health Areas (LHA) with higher populations in the Interior when it comes to COVID-19 cases. According to the B.C. Centre for D...

OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay says the federal Liberal government will hire more staff to deal with backlogs and overwhelming caseloads at his department. MacAulay made the comm...

KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops city councillor is calling on the province to offer alternatives to the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for healthcare workers. In a letter addressed to Health Minister Adrian Dix a...

OTTAWA - Health Canada has approved a booster of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 18. The booster is designed to help people with their first two COVID-19 vaccine doses ma...

KAMLOOPS - Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for the Coquihalla Highway between Merritt and Hope.Forecasters expect the highway will see a long period of snowfall which could amount to ...

KAMLOOPS - B.C. reported 1,438 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend with 321 of them in Interior Health.Active cases decreased in B.C. to 4,282 (down by 201 since Friday), while Interior Health saw a m...