Author Archives: James Peters
100 Mile House mayor confident tree-planters will follow strict pandemic-related rules
100 MILE HOUSE, B.C. - Millions of trees are planted in the B.C. Interior every year, but the business model has never been built to be pandemic-friendly.Private companies contracted by the B.C. Minis...
May 12, 2020
Contractor plans to have Highway 5A at Stump Lake passable before the weekend
MERRITT, B.C. - The contractor in charge of maintaining Highway 5A says crews hope to have traffic flowing through the Stump Lake area later this week.High water has submerged the road surface in thre...
May 12, 2020
Trudeau promises 'stronger measures' for screening at Canada-U.S. border
WASHINGTON - Justin Trudeau says Canada will need stronger screening measures to deal with an anticipated increase in the number of people entering the country from the United States. But the prime mi...
May 12, 2020
City flood preparations in place ahead of North and South Thompson River peak
KAMLOOPS - The city is preparing for the worst flood in more than 20 years. It's contracted Extreme Excavator to put up Hesco baskets along Rivers Trail at Riverside Park. "The key there is we're prot...
May 11, 2020
Cache Creek compost fire expected to keep smouldering for a few days
CACHE CREEK, B.C. - Fire officials say a smouldering pile at a composting facility outside of Cache Creek may continue to throw smoke for a couple of days.Fire Information Officer Kyla Fraser says the...
May 11, 2020
Have you allowed more people into 'your bubble' at this point in the COVID-19 pandemic?
May 11, 2020
West Kelowna COVID-19 outbreak over
KELOWNA - One of the only COVID-19 outbreaks that cropped up within Interior Health (IH) has been declared over.The outbreak at Bylands Nurseries in West Kelowna was first declared on March 28 when tw...
May 11, 2020
UPDATE: Armstrong-area teen located
ARMSTRONG, B.C. - UPDATE: The search for a missing North Okanagan teenager has come to an end after five days. RCMP say the 16-year-old boy who was last seen on May 9 at his residence on Salmon River ...
May 11, 2020
Feds pledge COVID-19 financing help for the country's biggest companies
OTTAWA - The federal government says it will provide loans and financing to the country's largest employers to help them weather the COVID-19 economic crisis. The Liberals are promising bridge financi...
May 11, 2020
Kamloops council to consider reinstating downtown parking fees
KAMLOOPS - The break on parking in downtown Kamloops is about to come to an end.A report coming to Kamloops council next week will recommend reinstating paid parking in two phases.Paid parking was nix...
May 8, 2020
