Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops begins one-year trial with Voyent Alert! emergency app
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops will begin its one-year trial with the Voyent Alert! smartphone application in late fall.Voyent Alert! is a multi-purpose and multi-platform communication tool to be us...
Aug 31, 2021
BC's chief coroner, Addiction Matters Kamloops call for drug policy changes, coordinated response to overdose crisis
KAMLOOPS - The ongoing overdose crisis in B.C was declared a public health emergency in 2016, yet five years later B.C's chief coroner says the province still doesn't have all hands on deck. In an upd...
Aug 31, 2021
COVID-19 outbreak declared at Kamloops Senior Village, 242 new cases in Interior Health
VICTORIA - The B.C. government reported 655 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday (Aug. 31), including four epi-linked cases, with 242 of them in Interior Health.Provincially, there are 6,045 active cases of ...
Aug 31, 2021
Campaign sign vandalism rampant in Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo
KAMLOOPS - A local candidate in the upcoming federal election says acts of vandalism against his campaign signs represent an attack on people of colour.Bill Sundhu, the NDP candidate in Kamloops-Thomp...
Aug 31, 2021
TNRD lifts final evacuation alerts related to Sparks Lake wildfire
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District's (TNRD) remaining evacuation alerts in response to the Sparks Lake wildfire have been rescinded to all clear.As of Aug. 31, the following 19 propertie...
Aug 31, 2021
Final evacuation alerts related to Tremont Creek wildfire lifted
KAMLOOPS - The Tremont Creek wildfire west of Kamloops no longer poses a threat to people and property.Tuesday morning (Aug. 31), the Thompson-Nicola Regional District rescinded the final evacuation a...
Aug 31, 2021
Former Kamloops councillor Tom Wallace dies
KAMLOOPS - A former Kamloops community builder has died. Tom Wallace passed away last week at the age of 95. Prior to Kamloops amalgamation, Wallace served as a town councillor in Valleyview. After th...
Aug 31, 2021
Evacuation order downgraded for 58 more properties impacted by July Mountain wildfire
KAMLOOPS - The evacuation order related to the July Mountain wildfire continues to be partially downgraded.The Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) partially downgraded an evacuation order Tuesday...
Aug 31, 2021
Kamloops records six overdose deaths in June, 32 so far in 2021
VICTORIA - Overdose deaths were down in B.C. in June 2021 compared to the same time last year (185), but the numbers remain grim in the province. B.C. recorded 159 deaths due to drug toxicity, the nin...
Aug 31, 2021
Tourism Kamloops looks ahead to fall and winter season after wildfire-challenged summer
KAMLOOPS - While many tourism businesses in the Interior had a successful summer, Tourism Kamloops says others had a very different environment to work through. With restrictions easing in July, touri...
Aug 30, 2021
