Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Safety improvements coming to Coquihalla Highway
MERRITT, B.C. - To improve safety for people travelling on the Coquihalla (Highway 5) south of Merritt, centre median barriers will be installed and the highway shoulder widened.A $2.2-million contrac...
Jun 03, 2021
B.C.-based Prestige Hotels and Resorts buys Kamloops Comfort Inn and Suites
KAMLOOPS - A B.C.-based hotel and resort chain is moving into the Kamloops market.In a news release issued Thursday (June 3), Prestige Hotels and Resorts announced it has purchased the former Comfort ...
Jun 03, 2021
Identifying children's remains at B.C. residential school stalled by lack of records
VANCOUVER - A lack of access to records and first-hand data would hinder the ability to identify the remains of 215 children found at a former residential school in Kamloops, says the director of the ...
Jun 03, 2021
KCBIA says plans for summer celebrations downtown depend on B.C.'s COVID-19 trajectory
KAMLOOPS - Optimistic, confident and excited.The Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association (KCBIA) is eager to see what summer could look like in the city and B.C. if the provincial government...
Jun 02, 2021
'It chips away at your heart': Kamloops family seeks items stolen from mausoleum memorial
KAMLOOPS - While visiting her son Brennan's memorial at Hillside Cemetery last week, Dorothy Barron and her daughter Payton Comazzetto realized something was wrong - the display had been broken in to....
Jun 02, 2021
COVID-19 cases declining steadily in Kamloops; big spike in Vernon last week
KAMLOOPS - The latest COVID-19 case count data from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control shows steadily declining cases in the Kamloops area.A map of cases broken down by Local Health Area (LHA) shows ...
Jun 02, 2021
IH warns against complacency as vaccination rates increase
KAMLOOPS - B.C.'s immunization roll out is reaching important milestones this week, with about 70 per cent of eligible adults in the province with a first dose.Following a similar order as the first d...
Jun 02, 2021
Volunteer couple from Idaho assisted in search for missing Kamloops firefighter in Okanagan Lake
KELOWNA - An American couple renowned for recovering drowning victims in deep water assisted in the search efforts this week for an off-duty firefighter presumed drowned in Okanagan Lake.Gene and Sand...
Jun 02, 2021
B.C. COVID-19 case count grows by 194; 33 in Interior Health
VICTORIA - For the second consecutive day, B.C. has recorded fewer than 200 new cases of COVID-19. In a prepared statement, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry reports 194 new cases in the prov...
Jun 02, 2021
'The Church was unquestionably wrong': Vancouver Archbishop pens letter to First Nations
VANCOUVER - Rev. J. Michael Miller, the present shepherd of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, has penned a letter to all First Nations governments, Indigenous communities, families and citi...
Jun 02, 2021
