Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - The city's official plan, KamPlan, hopes to reach 120,000 residents by 2039. It's well on track with an 8.4 per cent jump in population in the last five years, going from 90,000 in 2016 to ...

KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops rancher is suing Interior Health and a pair of surgeons after they operated on the wrong ankle.According to a Notice of Civil Claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court, Julie Alison Reid...

KAMLOOPS - The B.C. River Forecast Centre (RFC) says above-normal snow pack levels and a cool spring ahead makes spring flooding likely across the province.As of March 1, the North Thompson snowpack s...

MERRITT, B.C. - As a followup to a presentation from the Nicola Valley Theatre Society two weeks ago, Merritt City Council voted to approve undertaking a feasibility study for a performing arts centre...

KAMLOOPS - Interior Health says the COVID-19 outbreak at Overlander Residential Care has been declared over. And, if all goes according to plan, the outbreak at Ponderosa Lodge will be declared over i...

KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops is scrapping a planned second phase of the Hillside Drive extension.The first phase of the extension, connecting McGill Road behind the Thompson Rivers University campu...

KAMLOOPS - A man in his 60s from the Lower Mainland faces numerous firearm charges after B.C. Highway Patrol Kamloops officers seized six rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Officers were wo...

KAMLOOPS - A driver was arrested following a crash that affected traffic on the Trans Canada Highway in Kamloops Monday (March 7) evening. Kamloops RCMP say a red vehicle travelling at a high speed re...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP responded to approximately 341 calls for service from midnight pm Friday (March 4) to 9 a.m. on Monday (March 7). Below are some highlights from those reports. Car destroyed b...

LYTTON, B.C. - It's been a whirlwind of emergencies, evacuations and disaster response for the people of Lytton. But this week, the village was able to give residents more positive news that cleanup i...