Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - RCMP have arrested a man reported to be carrying a firearm in the downtown core Monday morning. Turns out, the man also had an unendorsed warrant for theft under $5000 and was taken into cu...

KAMLOOPS - UPDATE- 7:30 AM. A major structure fire overnight has left a number of people temporarily homeless.(NOTE: Photos and video from the scene have been posted here.)The fire broke out around mi...

KAMLOOPS - Officials at Marion Schilling Elementary have told parents about an exposure to COVID-19 at that school.The exposure happened last Thursday (Jan. 14).This exposure is in addition to three m...

KAMLOOPS - More COVID-19 exposures have been recorded at schools in Kamloops. Over the weekend, the Kamloops-Thompson School District was informed of potential exposure incidents at three schools. "Th...

KAMLOOPS - While the Interior started off the pandemic with modest COVID-19 infection rates compared to other parts of B.C, the region is experiencing a swell of cases.On Monday (Jan. 18), provincial ...

KAMLOOPS - Interior Health says 18 people at the Gemstone Care Centre in Brocklehurst have tested positive for COVID-19. IH says 14 residents and four staff members have been infected at the long-term...

MERRITT, B.C. - There have been three confirmed cases of COVID-19 at Merritt Secondary School (MSS).SD58 Nicola-Similkameen Superintendent Steve McNiven joined Q101 News Monday Morning to provide clar...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say a man died on Saturday (Jan. 16) after emergency responders pulled him out of the South Thompson River. In a release, Cst. Crystal Evelyn says around 11:34 a.m a call came...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops-Thompson School District is informing the public about three more school exposures to COVID-19 last week.Single-day exposures are listed at Juniper Ridge Elementary and Valleyview ...

KAMLOOPS - South Kamloops Secondary School (SKSS) is advising staff, students, and parents of another positive COVID-19 case at the school.In an email to families this weekend (Jan. 17), SKSS Principa...