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Y Dream Home tickets sell out quickly despite website hiccups
KAMLOOPS - Tickets for the 2020 Y Dream Home sold out over the weekend, and 50/50 tickets are expected to do the same soon. This year, due to COVID-19, ticket sales for both the Dream Home and the 50/...
Apr 20, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Flood watch in place for Bonaparte at Cache Creek, much of Cariboo and Chilcotin
VICTORIA - The Province of B.C. is keeping flood watches in place for a large portion of the B.C. Interior, and has instituted warnings further north. According to an update issued at 9:00 a.m. on Mon...
James Peters Apr 20, 2020 Flood warnings are in red, watches in yellow (Image Credit: BC River Forecast Centre)
Price-gougers, essential good resellers in B.C now faced with $2,000 fines during COVID-19 pandemic
VICTORIA - Police in B.C now have the ability to issue $2,000 violation tickets for anyone caught price gouging, or reselling medical supplies and essential goods during the COVID-19 pandemic. A BC Go...
Apr 19, 2020 (Image Credit: Government of BC)
Kamloops meal group working with IHA to assist city's homeless with potential virus symptoms
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health will be working with a group of local volunteers today to ensure the city's homeless population with potential COVID-19 symptoms can get medical help, or form an isolation p...
Apr 19, 2020 (Image Credit: Courtesy, Glenn Hilke)
One man arrested following motel stand-off with Kamloops RCMP
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP have one man in custody after a stand-off at a Valleyview motel Saturday evening. In a release, Sgt. Brandon Buliziuk says yesterday (Apr. 18) just after 10 p.m, RCMP responde...
Dylana Kneeshaw Apr 19, 2020 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Kamloops pulls off record breaking Rotary spring food drive
KAMLOOPS - Local residents stepped up to the plate for the Kamloops Food Bank today (Apr. 18), making the Rotary spring food drive a record event. Kamloops Food Bank executive director Bernadette Sira...
Apr 18, 2020 (Image Credit: Courtesy of Kamloops Food Bank / Peter Olsen Photography)
29 new COVID-19 cases identified in B.C, as health officials address likelihood of summer event cancellations
VICTORIA - With 29 new cases reported today (Apr. 18) by provincial health officials, there is now a total of 1,647 COVID-19 cases in B.C. In today's update, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry...
Dylana Kneeshaw Apr 18, 2020 (Image Credit: Government of B.C)
Workers in Interior Health region warned of potential virus exposure from Alberta work camp
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health is warning certain residents of potential COVID-19 exposure, after multiple people working at an Alberta-based oil sands project site tested positive. In a release from the ...
Dylana Kneeshaw Apr 18, 2020 (Image Credit: Interior Health Authority)
Kamloops Fire Rescue quickly knocks down afternoon house fire
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue made short work of an afternoon house fire yesterday on the city's North Shore. Platoon Captain Darryl Cooper says around 4:30 p.m, KFR crews were called to a home on B...
Dylana Kneeshaw Apr 18, 2020 Crews responded to the Belmont Crescent home shortly after 4:30 p.m Friday (Image Credit: Nathan Ritchie)
No calls for bears in Kamloops, but they're out of hibernation and looking for food: B.C. Conservation
KAMLOOPS - The hills around Kamloops are barren with no visible signs of bears, but that doesn't mean they're not out. The spring weather appears to be here to stay and experts are appealing to people...
Apr 17, 2020 There have been no official reports for bears in the Kamloops area this spring, but conservation officer say they are out (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
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