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Waive patents for COVID-19 vaccines, treatment to end pandemic, committee told
OTTAWA - Experts say Canada needs to turn its COVID-19 aid attention to expanding vaccine production everywhere or the virus will continue to run wild, mutate and bring new waves of disease. Dr. Madhu...
May 09, 2022
Potential flurries for Coquihalla Highway and Highway 1 from Eagle Pass to Rogers Pass: Environment Canada
KAMLOOPS - Environment Canada issued two special weather statements for travellers in the Nicola, Shuswap, and Columbia regions early Monday (May 9) morning. Drivers on the Coquihalla Highway from Hop...
May 09, 2022
Canada's PM Trudeau makes surprise visit to Ukraine to meet President Zelenskyy
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made an unannounced visit to Ukraine today amid the Russian invasion.The Prime Minister's Office says Trudeau will meet Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy...
May 08, 2022
City wants to prioritize expansion to downtown police station
KAMLOOPS - City staff are itching to get started on the RCMP Battle Street detachment expansion - and they're asking for an infusion of funds to do so.Kamloops City Council will receive a report from ...
May 07, 2022
April jobless rate drops to another new low as economy adds 15K jobs: StatCan
Statistics Canada says the jobless rate fell in April to another record low as employment was little changed for the month with a gain of 15,300 jobs.The unemployment rate came in at 5.2 per cent for ...
May 06, 2022
One dead in morning crash near Walmart complex in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - RCMP say one person has died in a morning crash in Kamloops.Cst. Crystal Evelyn says the single-vehicle collision was called in just before 8:30 a.m. Witnesses at the scene say a vehicle we...
May 05, 2022
B.C. hiring more health-care staff as it wipes out surgery backlog: minister
VICTORIA - British Columbia's health minister says the province has almost caught up with the backlog of surgeries from the pandemic and weather events while it sets new targets to whittle down the ex...
May 04, 2022
Province testing beefed-up emergency alert system ahead of fire season
NANAIMO - Phone service along with television and radio broadcasts will be interrupted briefly Wednesday afternoon.The scheduled 1:55 p.m. test of the province's emergency alert system is designed to ...
May 04, 2022
Reported wildfires between Kamloops and Falkland believed to be 'human caused'
KAMLOOPS - BC Wildfire Service say they responded numerous wildfires between Falkland and Kamloops Monday (May 2). In a social media post Monday evening, the wildfire suppression service for the provi...
May 03, 2022
Small wildfire pops up southeast of Clearwater
CLEARWATER, B.C. - Fifteen B.C. Wildfire Service personnel are on scene at a new wildfire that has ignited southeast of Clearwater.Fire Information Officer Shaelee Stearns says the McDougall Forest Se...
May 02, 2022
