Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops will get a new mayor later this year - and hopes to get the new mayor some new bling.The mayor's Chain of Office was stolen last September when thieves broke into Kamlo...

VICTORIA - B.C.'s Ministry of Health is reporting positive news on the COVID-19 front Tuesday (Mar. 22) - no new deaths have been reported province-wide. The B.C. death toll from the virus remains at ...

KAMLOOPS - Birth rates crawled to a nine per cent increase in Interior Health (IH) hospitals in 2021. In a news release Tuesday (March 22), IH says it welcomed 6,136 newborns to its hospitals in 2021,...

KAMLOOPS - A COVID-19 outbreak at Ponderosa Lodge in Kamloops has been declared over 47 days after it began.Interior Health has only one COVID-19 outbreak on its facility outbreak list as of Tuesday (...

KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops teenager got his moment in the spotlight Monday night (Mar. 22) on American Idol. WATCH: (Video Credit: YouTube / American Idol) Cameron Whitcomb, 18 and a pipeliner, auditioned ...

KAMLOOPS - The local RCMP detachment reports 32 thefts from motor vehicles and six bicycle thefts from Feb. 28 to March 6.Take a look at the following maps to see if your neighbourhood was hit: Week 1...

LILLOOET, B.C. -A 35-year-old man from Lillooet has been charged with murder following a homicide investigation. BC Prosecution Service charged Justin Ehlert with murder on Saturday (March 19). He's b...

CACHE CREEK, B.C. - Ashcroft RCMP say they responded to a fire at an auto wrecking yard in the 16 Mile area north of Cache Creek Sunday (March 20) evening.While the main residence on the property wasn...

UPDATE (7 a.m.): BC Hydro estimates that power will be fully restored at 8 a.m. Tuesday. The electric utility's outage map says fewer than five customers are now affected by the outage caused by an eq...

KAMLOOPS - Members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, Division 821 stand on picket lines outside of the CP Rail Yard in Kamloops. According to the union, workers were locked out after negotiatio...