Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Horgan to visit Logan Lake today
VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan will be paying a visit to the community of Logan Lake today (Aug. 27).Logan Lake was able to fend off the Tremont Creek wildfire earlier this month with the help of seve...
Aug 27, 2021
IH responds to RIH nurses, staffing outcry for support
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health (IH) is responding to the recent outcry from Royal Inland Hospital Nurses who say they are leaving the job because they are understaffed and overworked."It is heartbreaking ...
Aug 26, 2021
Interior Health addresses choice to cancel elective surgeries for another week at RIH
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health is addressing its choice to cancel elective surgeries for a third week in a row at Royal Inland Hospital (RIH).The response comes after the hospital's surgeons spoke to CFJC...
Aug 26, 2021
United for BC Wildfire Recovery Fund aims to help those affected by 2021 wildfires
KAMLOOPS - While we're still in the midst of the 2021 wildfire season, it's sure to go down as one of the worst BC has ever experienced. With hundreds of properties lost, and the total cost of those l...
Aug 26, 2021
B.C. records 724 new cases of COVID-19; hospitalizations up to 149
VICTORIA - B.C. is reporting another 724 cases of COVID-19 Thursday, as the province stays on the leading edge of a fourth wave of the virus. According to the Ministry of Health, there were 271 new ca...
Aug 26, 2021
Businesses preparing for resistance with provincially-mandated vaccine card
KAMLOOPS - With proof of vaccination required in three weeks, businesses are starting to prepare for what it will look like. While some have refused to check vaccine cards, others will follow the heal...
Aug 26, 2021
RCMP celebrate Dog Appreciation Day
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP are celebrating Dog Appreciation Day, putting some members of their K-9 team in the spotlight.Corporal Dana Napier of the Kamloops RCMP Detachment's Crime Prevention Unit says...
Aug 26, 2021
Medical services returning to fire threatened Logan Lake
LOGAN LAKE, B.C. - There is another sign that things are returning to normal in the community of Logan Lake.Interior Health has announced the Logan Lake Health Centre is re-opening Thursday (Aug. 26)....
Aug 26, 2021
Motorcyclist killed in Pinantan-Pritchard Road crash Wednesday
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Rural RCMP and the B.C. Coroners Service are trying to piece together what contributed to a motorcycle crash that killed a Kamloops man Wednesday (Aug. 25).Sgt. Darren Michels says...
Aug 26, 2021
Massive Tremont Creek, Sparks Lake wildfires both 'being held': B.C. Wildfire Service
KAMLOOPS - There has been a major positive development for the B.C. Wildfire Service (BCWS) in its battle against two of the largest fires in the province, both located not far from Kamloops.In update...
Aug 26, 2021
