Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
COVID-19 adds complication to wildfire-prompted care home evacuations
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health (IH) is feeling the pressure with COVID-19 cases rising - and now the added layer of wildfire evacuation orders.IH Medical Health Officer Dr. Carol Fenton told CFJC News she...
Aug 20, 2021
USW plans barbecue to welcome Logan Lake residents home, acknowledge fire prevention efforts
LOGAN LAKE, B.C. - The United Steelworkers Local 7619 at Highland Valley Copper will be hosting a thank-you barbecue in Logan Lake for wildland and structural firefighters and to welcome the community...
Aug 20, 2021
TNRD lifts evacuation order for 650+ Merritt-area properties, including Lower Nicola community
MERRITT, B.C. - Hundreds of residents whose properties surround the eastern edge of the Lytton Creek wildfire are on their way home today.Friday (Aug. 20), the Thompson-Nicola Regional District lifted...
Aug 20, 2021
Wildfire smoke has been thicker, lingered longer over Kamloops this year than any in recent memory: province
KAMLOOPS - There is debate around whether this has been the worst fire season in recent memory for the B.C. Interior, but when it comes to the smoke in the air, there is no debate.Ben Weinstein is the...
Aug 20, 2021
Kamloops man decides on scratch-and-win impulse buy, comes away with $500,000
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops man's impulse buy at a local gas station has made him $500,000 richer.B.C. Lottery Corporation (BCLC) says Domenico Di Giacomo bought a Saturday morning newspaper at the local Ca...
Aug 20, 2021
Burnaby woman died in Thursday crash west of Kamloops: RCMP
KAMLOOPS - RCMP say a woman from Burnaby died in a head-on crash with a delivery truck just west of Kamloops Thursday (Aug. 19). In a news release, Kamloops RCMP spokesperson Cst. Crystal Evelyn says ...
Aug 20, 2021
No reports of criminality in evacuated communities: B.C. RCMP
The B.C. RCMP is reassuring people forced from their homes due to wildfires that their property is still being protected. Members of the RCMP across the province are patrolling evacuated areas, not on...
Aug 20, 2021
RCMP unit raids Kamloops North Shore drug house, makes significant seizures
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops RCMP's Targeted Enforcement Unit (TEU) has taken down a suspected drug house on the North Shore. In a news release, spokesperson Cst. Crystal Evelyn says TEU members moved in o...
Aug 19, 2021 Image Credit: Kamloops RCMP
Simpcw First Nation establishes Indigenous Initial Attack partnership with BC Wildfire Service
CHU CHUA, BC - In 2017, as huge swaths of the province burned, Ron Lampreau and Melanie Stutt began formulating an idea: an indigenous Initial Attack Wildfire Crew, staffed from members of the Simpcw ...
Aug 19, 2021
People's Party candidate Delwo ready to take on lawyer opponents in Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo vote
KAMLOOPS - The People's Party of Canada has confirmed its MP candidate for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo ahead of the Sep. 20 federal election. Corally Delwo will represent the People's Party in this year...
Aug 19, 2021
