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Multi-level government discussions in Kamloops focused on emergency management
KAMLOOPS - While Justin Trudeau was in Kamloops, City Hall played host to the Prime Minister, along with federal and provincial ministers, to discuss emergency management improvements. In particular, ...
May 22, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Wind remains on firefighters' side in bout with northern Alberta wildfire
HIGH LEVEL, Alta. - Despite heavy smoke, officials say a lighter wind out of the northeast has allowed for great progress on reining in a wildfire that's forced thousands of people from their homes in...
May 22, 2019
Coroner confirms death of man in his 40s in Thursday Coquihalla crash
KAMLOOPS - UPDATE: Merritt RCMP say the man who died in a crash on the Coquihalla Highway Thursday had stopped to offer assistance after an earlier crash.According to a news release, RCMP say the vict...
May 17, 2019 Image Credit: Joshua Knaak
Overdose deaths up in Interior Health Authority, down provincially
There's been a significant decrease so far this year in the number of people dying from overdose in British Columbia. New numbers from the BC Coroners Service show there were 104 suspected overdose de...
May 15, 2019 Image Credit: Paulus Rusyanto | Dreamstime
CP NewsAlert: Canadian among those killed in floatplane crash in Alaska
VANCOUVER - Global Affairs Canada has confirmed one Canadian is among the dead in a midair crash between sightseeing planes in Alaska. The department says the name or hometown of the victim is not bei...
May 14, 2019
CN train investigated as potential cause of Kamloops-area wildfire
KAMLOOPS - A 19-hectare wildfire burning east of Kamloops, B.C. may have been caused by a passing CN train.Witnesses tell Global News three areas near the train tracks started smoking about 50 yards a...
May 13, 2019 Buse Creek wildfire, May 13 (Image Credit: Twitter / Rick Niles)
Wildfire Service battling blaze east of Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - UPDATED- MONDAY, MAY 13- 4:50 amA wildfire east of the City is still considered out of control, but isn't threatening any structures, at least as of late last night. Wildfire B.C. officials...
May 12, 2019 Image Credit: BC Wildfire Service
Fire on Shuswap Road rips through trucking yard
KAMLOOPS - A pillar of dark smoke rising east of Kamloops was visible from across the city, as a fire tore through the Lebeau Brothers Logging Ltd. on East Shuswap Road yard at around 8:00 pm Friday e...
May 10, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Adam Donnelly
Man arrested after suspicious death in Merritt
MERRITT, B.C. - The Merritt RCMP are investigating the sudden death of a man in that community.Officers were called to a home in the 2200-block of Blair Street in Merritt on Thursday afternoon around ...
May 10, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Toddler dies in Burnaby after being left in hot car
BURNABY - RCMP say a toddler has died after being left in a vehicle in Burnaby, B.C., during a spring heat wave.Mounties say at 5:45 p.m. yesterday officers responded to a report of an unconscious 16-...
May 10, 2019 Image Credit: Twitter / @ahjayy
