Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - With the direction the province is headed with COVID-19 cases and restriction easements, the 26th annual Hot Nite in the City event will return to downtown Kamloops in August. The pandemic ...

LYTTON, B.C. - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has put ten Lytton-area properties under an evacuation alert due to an encroaching wildfire.The fire, called East of Skuppah, was first reported We...

KELOWNA - Interior Health (IH) says more than 675,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have now been administered throughout the health region.The agency says 520,998 first doses and 154,848 second doses (22...

KAMLOOPS - The chief of the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc (TteS) says she would like Canadians to continue to mark Canada Day - even if the recent discovery near the former Kamloops residential school casts ...

MERRITT, B.C. - A commercial truck driver died in a crash near Merritt Wednesday night (June 16). RCMP say the collision took place along the Okanagan Connector near the Loon Lake exit just after 9:00...

MERRITT, B.C. - People travelling on the Coquihalla (Highway 5) will soon benefit from approximately $1 million in comprehensive upgrades and accessibility improvements to rest-area washrooms.The wash...

KAMLOOPS - There are a pair of new wildfires burning southwest of Kamloops, filling the skies of the city with smoke.The B.C. Wildfire Service reports the 9 hectare Hamilton Hill fire is burning just ...

MERRITT - A Kelowna resident has been convicted of multiple property crime offenses in the Merritt area stemming from 2020."Mr. Michael Dennison was convicted of one count of possession of property ob...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone has endorsed Kevin Falcon to be the next leader of the B.C. Liberal Party."I know the hard work that lies ahead for the next leader, and I believe Kev...

KAMLOOPS - The spread of COVID-19 in Kamloops declined again last week.In the latest update to the case count map broken down by Local Health Area (LHA), the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) re...