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NHL suspends season due to COVID-19 pandemic
NEW YORK - The NHL has suspended its season immediately due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The league made the announcement Thursday afternoon.The NHL advised all its clubs earlier in the day not to conduct...
James Peters Mar 12, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press

Trudeau goes into self-isolation over COVID-19 concerns
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife are in self-isolation over COVID-19 concerns, which has forced the cancellation of an in-person meeting of Canada's first ministers. The Prime Minis...
James Peters Mar 12, 2020 Image Credit: Canadian Press

TV shoot looking for Kamloops-area extras
KAMLOOPS - Yet another major Hollywood production will be taking place in the Kamloops area shortly - and it's looking for locals who want to be extras. Van Helsing Season 5 will be filming at Tranqui...
James Peters Mar 11, 2020 Image Credit: NBCUniversal

WHO declares COVID-19 crisis is now a pandemic
ROME - Expressing increasing alarm about mounting infections, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who hea...
James Peters Mar 11, 2020

UPDATE: Missing man located
KAMLOOPS - UPDATE: Kamloops RCMP says the man reported missing March 10 has been found.
James Peters Mar 10, 2020

Plane carrying Canadians from Grand Princess cruise ship arrives in Canada
OTTAWA - A plane carrying Canadians who were on a cruise ship with a cluster of novel coronavirus cases arrived back in Canada this morning. The government-chartered aircraft landed at Canadian Forces...
James Peters Mar 10, 2020
Has coronavirus affected your travel plans?
James Peters Mar 09, 2020

Pedestrian survives being hit by train near Ashcroft
ASHCROFT, B.C. - One person is in critical condition after being hit by a train near Ashcroft. According BC Emergency Health Services (EHS), paramedics were called to a spot 10 kilometres outside of A...
James Peters Mar 06, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today

Recognition of title rights 'still a struggle' for First Nation after court win
VANCOUVER - As members of the Wet'suwet'en Nation mull a draft deal over rights and title, another Indigenous community knows what that kind of recognition could look like. The Tsilhqot'in Natio...
James Peters Mar 05, 2020

Merritt-area man dies after plunging through Nicola Lake ice
MERRITT, B.C. - The B.C. Coroners Service is investigating after an apparent drowning on Nicola Lake over the weekend. An email from Staff Sgt. Lorne Wood of Merritt RCMP states the man had walked out...
James Peters Mar 05, 2020 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)

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