Author Archives: James Peters
RIH patient care tower construction staying on course for 2022 completion
KAMLOOPS - Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Phase One construction on the new Patient Care Tower at Royal Inland Hospital is on schedule for its 2022 completion. Current health protocols require a limit...
Jun 10, 2020
Interior Health goes full incubation period with no new COVID-19 cases
VICTORIA - Interior Health has now gone one full incubation period without recording a new case of COVID-19. In new figures released Wednesday (June 10), Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry say...
Jun 10, 2020
Fire scorches North Shore deck
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue personnel quickly doused a fire on the North Shore Wednesday afternoon (June 10), but not before it charred a home's back deck.Firefighters were called to a home at 13t...
Jun 10, 2020
Dozy trucker crashes along Trans Canada east of Chase
CHASE, B.C. - RCMP say the driver of a semi that rolled Wednesday (June 10) east of Chase may have fallen asleep.According to a news release from B.C. RCMP Traffic Services spokesman Cpl. Mike Halskov...
Jun 10, 2020
B.C. government extends record-breaking provincial state of emergency
VICTORIA - The B.C. government has extended the provincial state of emergency until June 23.The province first declared a state of emergency in connection with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on March 1...
Jun 10, 2020
Freeland says police must acknowledge racism after senior RCMP officer's denial
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says all federal agencies, including the police, must understand that systemic racism is a problem in Canada. Freeland made the comments at a media bri...
Jun 10, 2020
Kamloops Y to reopen downtown fitness facility next Monday
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops YM-YWCA says it will partially reopen next Monday (June 15).In an email to members, the Y says the downtown facility's dryland fitness amenities, including cardio equipment and...
Jun 10, 2020
Lucky 13 days without a new COVID-19 case in Interior Health
VICTORIA - Provincial health officials are reporting ten new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday (June 9). Nine of those were from positive tests, while one was epidemiologically linked to another COVID-19-posi...
Jun 09, 2020
'Almost complete loss' of early salmon runs at Fraser River slide last year: DFO
OTTAWA - Early runs of Stuart and Chinook salmon were devastated last year because they couldn't make it past a massive landslide on British Columbia's Fraser River. Officials with the Department of F...
Jun 09, 2020
VIDEO: Drone film lets you see Kamloops region with new eyes
KAMLOOPS - A new video posted to social media shows our beautiful region from a new perspective. The video, posted Sunday (June 7) and produced by Sky Dancing Films, is comprised completely of footage...
Jun 09, 2020
