Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Amid non-essential highway limits, planning for holiday trips; some Interior travellers are taking the bus instead
KAMLOOPS - Ongoing closures to non-essential travel on B.C highways have resulted in many Interior residents finding alternatives to driving themselves. Flights are in high demand, rail service is als...
Dec 09, 2021
Toxic drug deaths in BC could surpass 2,000 before the end of 2021
KAMLOOPS - With two months of data still to come in 2021, British Columbia is already reporting the highest number of deaths in a single year as a result of an increasingly toxic drug supply.So far, 1...
Dec 09, 2021
BC reports 341 new COVID-19 cases Thursday, nine new virus-related deaths
VICTORIA - The BC Government says the numbers are provisional, but the province recorded 341 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, and nine new deaths. In an emailed update today (Dec. 9), the M...
Dec 09, 2021
'It's really shameful': $1,500 taken from Kamloops kettles during two separate thefts
KAMLOOPS - As the Salvation Army enters its two busiest weeks of the year leading up to Christmas, the organization is scrambling as it deals with thefts on back-to-back days this week. The first robb...
Dec 09, 2021
BC Care Providers Association suffering from staffing crisis, desperate for nurses
KAMLOOPS - The BC Care Providers Association is calling its staffing shortage a crisis. Care Providers CEO, Terry Lake, says it's a province-wide problem, but the Interior region is suffering the most...
Dec 09, 2021
BC Seniors Advocate Office report shows almost 50 per cent increase in abuse, neglect of seniors
KAMLOOPS - The British Columbia Seniors Advocate Office has released a review on seniors abuse and neglect in the province.The report reviews five years of existing data. In its findings, the review h...
Dec 09, 2021
Kamloops ties yearly overdose record with two months left to report
KAMLOOPS - With two months left of reporting in 2021, Kamloops has tied the record for most illicit overdose deaths in a year. October numbers were announced by B.C. chief coroner Lisa LaPointe on Thu...
Dec 09, 2021
Salvation Army urgently pleading for Christmas hamper sponsors for Merritt families
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Salvation Army is making another urgent plea to residents to donate gifts for children 17 and under, and gift cards to purchase food.Following the Coldwater River flood in mid-...
Dec 08, 2021
Report calls for increased collaboration and communication between province and Secwepemc communities
KAMLOOPS - On July 6th, 2017 about 2.5 kilometres southwest of Ashcroft, the human-caused Elephant Hill Wildfire started, which would burn for several months, destroy hundreds of structures, and consu...
Dec 08, 2021
'It's always fairly expensive': holiday flight prices spike in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Non-essential travel by road between the Interior and Southwestern B.C. is not allowed right now.The fastest alternative to get to and from the Lower Mainland is flying. But the current cos...
Dec 08, 2021
