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Weather stalls significant growth at White Rock Lake fire: BC Wildfire Service
VERNON, B.C. - British Columbia's wildfire service says showers brought some relief and stalled significant overnight growth at a fire that's forced thousands out of their homes in the southern interi...
Aug 08, 2021
Evacuation order rescinded for 60 properties impacted by Sparks Lake wildfire
KAMLOOPS - Evacuation orders issued over a month ago (June 29 and 30, and July 4) have been downgraded to evacuation alerts.Late Saturday (Aug. 7), the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) partial...
Aug 08, 2021
White Rock Lake wildfire: evacuation order downgraded for 220 properties, all clear for 177
UPDATE: The City of Kamloops announced it has rescinded its evacuation alert for the neighbourhoods of Campbell Creek, Dallas, and Barnhartvale.EARLIER: KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Nicola Regional Distric...
Aug 07, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: If you were told to leave everything behind, would you?
IF A MASSIVE WILDFIRE was roaring towards your home, and you were told to evacuate, would you? A surprising number wouldn't.As crews fought - unsuccessfully, in large part - to save Monte Lake from th...
Aug 07, 2021
Evacuation Order issued because of threatening Lytton Creek wildfire
KAMLOOPS - The Lytton Creek Wildfire is threatening some properties along the eastern edge of the Fraser River, northeast of Lytton. It has prompted the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) to iss...
Aug 06, 2021
Movement in July Mountain wildfire leads to Evacuation Alert
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson Nicola Regional District has issued an Evacuation Alert for 142 properties south of Merritt in Electoral Area "N" (Beautiful Nicola Valley-South).The Alert runs south from the ...
Aug 06, 2021
Evacuation Order south of Merritt - Coquihalla remains open
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has issued an Evacuation Order for a region south of Merritt due to the July Mountain Wildfire.The order is intersected by the Coquihalla highway, howe...
Aug 06, 2021
COVID-19 cases continue to soar in Interior Health region
KAMLOOPS - With 275 new cases of COVID-19 in Interior Health Friday, new tighter restrictions have been announced for the Central Okanagan region. It's the highest daily total recorded within the Inte...
Aug 06, 2021
Tensions easing over Sparks Lake wildfire northwest of Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - It appears the worst may be over in the battle to contain the largest wildfire in British Columbia. The B.C. Wildfire Service says it hasn't seen significant growth on the 771 square kilome...
Aug 06, 2021
PETERS: Are we finally ready to agree on climate change
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc revelation of unmarked graves near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site has been said before.It's not that the rest of Canada didn't know a...
Aug 06, 2021
