Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Wildfire crews set up at Parkcrest School in Kamloops as fires burn across the region
KAMLOOPS - Wildfire crews are setting up camp at Parkcrest School in Kamloops as fires continue to burn across the region. However, in the past 24 hours, the spread of local fires may have calmed down...
Jul 16, 2021
Wildfire increase prompts TNRD to formally request provincial state of emergency
KAMLOOPS - Three weeks ago, the Thompson-Nicola Regional District board opted not to ask the B.C. government for a state of emergency. Since then, Board Chair Ken Gillis says the regional district has...
Jul 16, 2021
RAW VIDEO: Downtown Kamloops crash Thursday followed traffic stop, flight from police
KAMLOOPS - RCMP have a suspect in custody after a botched escape from police that ended up in a crash at a downtown Kamloops intersection.WATCH: A suspect is brought into custody after Thursday's coll...
Jul 16, 2021
Royal Inland COVID-19 outbreak comes to an end; 21 of 45 new cases Friday in Interior Health
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health (IH) says a COVID-19 outbreak on 6 South at Royal Inland Hospital has officially been declared over.The outbreak was first declared on June 30 and grew to 10 patient cases. ...
Jul 16, 2021
CP Rail claims no issues with Lytton train, blasts TSB chair comments as 'irresponsible'
LYTTON, B.C. - CP Rail says preliminary investigations of the last train believed to have passed through Lytton before the village was destroyed by fire revealed no issues with the train.Two people we...
Jul 16, 2021
B.C. helicopter skiing pioneer Mike Wiegele dies
BLUE RIVER, B.C. - A pioneer in B.C.'s adventure tourism field has died.According to Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing, the tourism operator's founder and namesake has passed away.In a social media post ...
Jul 16, 2021
City of Kamloops offering smoke refuge at Sandman Centre
KAMLOOPS - With wildfire smoke lingering in the area, the City of Kamloops has opened the Sandman Centre Friday (July 16) as a smoke refuge. The City says the concourse will be open daily for resident...
Jul 16, 2021
TNRD votes unanimously to request a provincial State of Emergency on wildfires
KAMLOOPS - At its regular Board meeting held Thursday (July 15), the Thompson-Nicola Regional District Board of Directors unanimously passed a motion to ask the Government of British Columbia to decla...
Jul 16, 2021
July Mountain wildfire leads to Evacuation Alert south of Merritt
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson Nicola Regional District has issued an Evacuation Alert south of Merritt in Electoral Area "N" - Beautiful Nicola Valley-South.The area is under threat from the July Mountain w...
Jul 15, 2021
More long-term care residents moved out of 100 Mile House and Ashcroft
KAMLOOPS - Long-term care residents in 100 Mile House and Ashcroft are being moved to safe locations while the two communities face Evacuation Alerts.Yesterday more than a dozen long-term care residen...
Jul 15, 2021
