Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Take Back the Night kicks off in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - For almost 40 years, Take Back the Night has brought awareness to the issue of sexualized violence. This year, the Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre decided to change up the local ...
Sep 23, 2021
Highway 5A-area residents feeling 'cautiously hopeful' after meeting with transportation minister
KAMLOOPS - After a meeting with the Minister of Transportation, Highway 5A-area residents are feeling 'cautiously hopeful' that the province will implement changes to make the highway safer.It comes a...
Sep 23, 2021
With breakthrough COVID-19 cases on the rise, BC Care Providers calls for booster shot for seniors
KAMLOOPS - Three Kamloops care homes are battling COVID-19 outbreaks. Overlander Residential Care, Kamloops Seniors Village and The Hamlets all have positive cases of the virus along with ten other ca...
Sep 23, 2021
Turnout down in Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo for Monday's federal vote
KAMLOOPS - Voter turnout declined in Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo for the second consecutive federal election.Elections Canada has tabulated all of the ballots in the riding from Monday's vote, validatin...
Sep 23, 2021
Merritt mayor thanks local health care workers and encourages vaccination
MERRITT, B.C. - At the conclusion of Tuesday's (Sept. 21) council meeting, Mayor Linda Brown took a minute to thank health care workers and encourage citizens to get vaccinated against COVID-19."I wan...
Sep 23, 2021
Logan Lake hoping to step up fire mitigation efforts with funding from Forest Enhancement Society of BC
KAMLOOPS - It's been well-documented this summer how FireSmart iniatives in Logan Lake helped save the community from the raging Tremont Creek wildfire. Logan Lake was Canada's first FireSmart communi...
Sep 23, 2021
Suspected fentanyl dealers nabbed at Kamloops gas station
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP nabbed a pair of suspected fentanyl traffickers early Wednesday morning (Sept. 22). In a news release, spokesperson Cst. Crystal Evelyn says the bust went down at about 2:30 a...
Sep 23, 2021 Image Credit: Kamloops RCMP
City of Kamloops shuts down TRU request for emergency housing
KAMLOOPS - UPDATE: Thompson Rivers University has released a statement in response to the City of Kamloops decision.TRU is disappointed that our request to establish emergency temporary student housin...
Sep 23, 2021
Parade by emergency vehicles supports frontline workers
KAMLOOPS - It was a big show of support for healthcare workers at Royal Inland Hospital last night (Wednesday). A parade of vehicles including fire trucks, ambulances, RCMP officers, and other first r...
Sep 23, 2021
Kamloops and Central Okanagan see big decreases in weekly COVID-19 cases
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Local Health Area (LHA) is no longer seeing red.According to the latest geographic distribution of COVID-19 by LHA of Case Residence by the B.C. Centre of Disease Control, Kaml...
Sep 22, 2021
