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Interior Health issues drug alert for Kamloops and Merritt
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health has issued a drug alert for both Merritt and Kamloops.The teal-coloured drug is being sold as 'down' and may contain Fentanyl and possible synthetic cannabinoid.The risks in...
Sep 24, 2021
Federal deficit hit $48.5 billion over first four months of fiscal year
OTTAWA - The federal government ran a deficit of more than $48 billion over the first four months of its fiscal year, about $100 billion less than the treasury pumped out during the same period one ye...
Sep 24, 2021
White Rock Lake wildfire caused an estimated $77-million in insured damage
The damage caused by the White Rock Lake wildfire this summer is expected to have a price tag of at least $77-million.The insured damage estimate was calculated by Catastrophe Indices and Quantificati...
Sep 23, 2021
Kamloops and Central Okanagan see big decreases in weekly COVID-19 cases
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Local Health Area (LHA) is no longer seeing red.According to the latest geographic distribution of COVID-19 by LHA of Case Residence by the B.C. Centre of Disease Control, Kaml...
Sep 22, 2021
B.C. records 759 new COVID-19 cases, ten more deaths
VICTORIA - B.C. has recorded another 759 new cases of COVID-19, including 233 in Interior Health - the most of any health authority in the province.In a news release, the province's health ministry re...
Sep 22, 2021
TRU study suggests increasing communication with First Nations to address future wildfires
KAMLOOPS - A study of B.C.'s wildfire communications practices during the 2017-18 seasons by Thompson Rivers University (TRU) experts suggests revisiting existing approaches, due to climate change inc...
Sep 22, 2021
'You can run a fence post, it will win': Sundhu not surprised a Conservative is returning to Ottawa from riding
KAMLOOPS - Bill Sundhu hoped a return to the federal ballot would lead to change, and ultimately result in a trip to Ottawa. However, that did not go according to plan. "We thought it was a much more ...
Sep 21, 2021
Accident in Dallas confirmed fatal
UPDATE (10 a.m.): Kamloops RCMP confirmed one person was found dead on the East Trans Canada Highway near Dallas. Highway 1 is reopened after westbound lanes were closed while police and the coroner i...
Sep 21, 2021 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Trudeau Liberals earn right to form next government in 44th Canadian General Election
OTTAWA - The Canadian Press is projecting the Liberals have won enough seats to stay in power with a minority government but have fallen short of winning a majority.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will ...
Sep 20, 2021
Ballot count underway across the country as federal election polls close in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Polls have closed in British Columbia and Yukon, marking the end of voting across the country. Yukon's chief medical health officer Dr. Brendan Hanley is on leave to run for the Liberals t...
Sep 20, 2021
