Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
No reports of criminality in evacuated communities: B.C. RCMP
The B.C. RCMP is reassuring people forced from their homes due to wildfires that their property is still being protected. Members of the RCMP across the province are patrolling evacuated areas, not on...
Aug 20, 2021
RCMP unit raids Kamloops North Shore drug house, makes significant seizures
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops RCMP's Targeted Enforcement Unit (TEU) has taken down a suspected drug house on the North Shore. In a news release, spokesperson Cst. Crystal Evelyn says TEU members moved in o...
Aug 19, 2021 Image Credit: Kamloops RCMP
Simpcw First Nation establishes Indigenous Initial Attack partnership with BC Wildfire Service
CHU CHUA, BC - In 2017, as huge swaths of the province burned, Ron Lampreau and Melanie Stutt began formulating an idea: an indigenous Initial Attack Wildfire Crew, staffed from members of the Simpcw ...
Aug 19, 2021
People's Party candidate Delwo ready to take on lawyer opponents in Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo vote
KAMLOOPS - The People's Party of Canada has confirmed its MP candidate for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo ahead of the Sep. 20 federal election. Corally Delwo will represent the People's Party in this year...
Aug 19, 2021
Logan Lake residents receive emotional welcome home after week-long evacuation
LOGAN LAKE, B.C. - More than 2,000 Logan Lake residents are heading home after they were forced to flee the raging Tremont Creek wildfire.The evacuation order was put out last Thursday (Aug. 12) when ...
Aug 19, 2021
Coldwater Indian Band issues evacuation order for Reserve 3
MERRITT, B.C. - The Coldwater Indian Band has issued an evacuation ORDER for Reserve #3 Gwen Lake due to the July Mountain wildfire.The order was issued Thursday afternoon by Chief and Council. Reside...
Aug 19, 2021
B.C. Wildfire Service says resources have doubled since early concern in July
KAMLOOPS - The B.C. Wildfire Service says the leaked memo was written and sent out by a member of the forest industry after a meeting on July 12. The wildfire service also notes the memo was at a time...
Aug 19, 2021
Serious crash closes Trans Canada Highway west of Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Emergency services are on scene of a very serious crash just west of Kamloops. Cst. Crystal Evelyn of Kamloops RCMP says it happened on the Trans Canada Highway near the New Afton mine, and...
Aug 19, 2021 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Dave Barry
Abandoned crash scene has Kamloops RCMP looking for witnesses
KAMLOOPS - RCMP are looking for witnesses to a mysterious crash in downtown Kamloops early Monday morning (Aug. 16).In a news release, spokesperson Cst. Crystal Evelyn says it happened at the intersec...
Aug 19, 2021
Logan Lake evacuation order lifted, residents to return home
LOGAN LAKE, B.C. - One week after residents were forced to flee a raging wildfire, the people of Logan Lake are on their way home.The district's website says the evacuation order put in place Aug. 12 ...
Aug 19, 2021
