Author Archives: James Peters

TNRD evacuates 28 more properties near Westwold due to growing White Rock Lake fire
WESTWOLD, B.C. - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has issued a new evacuation order for 28 properties in the Westwold area, in the proximity of the White Rock Lake fire. Residents of the followin...
James Peters Jul 19, 2021

Second-dose COVID-19 vaccination rate surpasses 50% for eligible British Columbians
VICTORIA - More than half of eligible British Columbians are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19.New data released by the province's Ministry of Health Monday (July 19) shows a 53.2 per cent second-...
James Peters Jul 19, 2021

Are you excited and do you plan to follow the Summer Olympic Games?
James Peters Jul 19, 2021 Image Credit: Dreamstime.com / Sakuragirin

COVID-19 vaccinations resume in 100 Mile House
100 MILE HOUSE, B.C. - While 100 Mile House remains on evacuation alert due to the nearby Flat Lake wildfire, Interior Health (IH) is renewing its effort to get the community vaccinated against COVID-...
James Peters Jul 19, 2021

Ticket issued for Highway 5A fire south of Kamloops Saturday
KAMLOOPS - A man received a ticket under the Wildfire Act following a ditch fire near Running Horse Ranch Road Saturday (July 17) afternoon.Kamloops Fire Rescue was soaking a grassy area when police a...
James Peters Jul 19, 2021

RCMP believe F-150 pickup may have caused multiple fires near Merritt Sunday night
MERRITT, B.C. - The Merritt RCMP are investigating after seven fires sparked Sunday night (July 18) along Highway 8.The Merritt Fire Department, Lower Nicola Fire Department and B.C. Wildfire Service ...
James Peters Jul 19, 2021

B.C. helicopter skiing pioneer Mike Wiegele dies
BLUE RIVER, B.C. - A pioneer in B.C.'s adventure tourism field has died.According to Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing, the tourism operator's founder and namesake has passed away.In a social media post ...
James Peters Jul 16, 2021

PETERS: B.C. State of Emergency needed for both practical and symbolic reasons
IT MIGHT BE STUBBORNNESS, it might be ignorance, or it might be embarrassment that is preventing politicians from declaring a provincial State of Emergency in B.C., but it is certainly not the logisti...
James Peters Jul 16, 2021

TNRD votes unanimously to request a provincial State of Emergency on wildfires
KAMLOOPS - At its regular Board meeting held Thursday (July 15), the Thompson-Nicola Regional District Board of Directors unanimously passed a motion to ask the Government of British Columbia to decla...
James Peters Jul 16, 2021

Tk'emlúps pushing for release of residential school student records, federal resources to identify missing children
TK'EMLUPS - Nearly two months since the initial announcement of 215 burial sites detected on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Tk'emlps te Secwpemc (TteS) provided an updat...
James Peters Jul 15, 2021

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