Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
With disruption to liquor distribution carrying on, more Kamloops vendors turning to local products
KAMLOOPS - The ongoing strike action of BC General Employees Union (BCGEU) members has restaurants, liquor stores and anywhere that sells liquor trying to find alternative ways to avoid empty shelves....
Oct 16, 2025
Tip from the public helped Mounties recover stolen vehicle in Rayleigh Wednesday
KAMLOOPS - RCMP are saying more about a stolen vehicle investigation that led to the arrests of two people in Rayleigh Wednesday (Oct. 15).Kamloops RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Dana Napier says a member of ...
Oct 16, 2025
State of local emergency lifted as TNRD completes initial work at 'unauthorized' Fadear Lake dam
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) has lifted a State of Local Emergency in Electoral Area "O" (Lower North Thompson) that was put in place because an unauthorized man-made dam no...
Oct 16, 2025
Four-lane traffic returns to Overlanders Bridge as City of Kamloops completes rehabilitation project
KAMLOOPS - Four lanes of traffic are flowing across the Overlanders Bridge in Kamloops Thursday as the city says it has completed the latest round of rehabilitation work on the bridge deck.The city sa...
Oct 16, 2025
Cardiac care unit at RIH to remain closed; ICCHA-Wish Fund cancels annual fundraiser
KAMLOOPS - Cardiac patients in Kamloops are likely to continue to be transported to Kelowna for care for at least another decade. That's according to the ICCHA-Wish Fund after its founder Al Patel met...
Oct 16, 2025
RSV outbreak declared on 5 South at Royal Inland Hospital
KAMLOOPS - A respiratory outbreak has been declared in at least one section of Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops.In a notice posted to its health facility disease outbreaks list, Interior Health has d...
Oct 16, 2025
Blazers score six unanswered, ground the Warriors 7-5 in Moose Jaw
KAMLOOPS - Six unanswered goals in Moose Jaw have helped the Kamloops Blazers turn their six-game Prairie road trip around. Following a pair of losses in Prince Albert and Saskatoon and a win in Regin...
Oct 16, 2025
Clouston says Blazers wrestling with early-season grind; Hurlbert sensational
MOOSE JAW, SASK. - Shaun Clouston used the example of players failing to retreat quickly into their own zone to defend to illustrate the type of basic mistakes that have plagued his Kamloops Blazers o...
Oct 15, 2025
Coats for Folks donation collection open at Salvation Army Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The temperatures have taken a noticeable drop in the BC Interior this week and the Salvation Army Kamloops has begun its annual collection of coats and boots for people in need of proper wi...
Oct 15, 2025
All redos of medical tests impacted by Westwold truck crash complete; original patient samples returned to IH
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health says it's caught up to the retesting that had to be undertaken after a semi-truck delivering hundreds of patient samples crashed into a barn in Westwold. The incident stems ...
Oct 15, 2025
