Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Interior Health issues a drug alert for Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Health officials have discovered a dangerous drug that could be on city streets. As a result, Interior Health has issued a drug alert for Kamloops. A light yellow or beige granular substanc...
Sep 25, 2020
British Columbia's COVID-19 case count up by 98
KAMLOOPS - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in B.C. has risen by 98 today (Sept. 25). According to a release from Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Deputy Minister of Health Stephen...
Sep 25, 2020
Suspect arrested and charged in triple fatal hit and run
KAMLOOPS - Charges have been laid against a 31-year-old Kamloops man in connection with a fatal hit and run collision last November. In the early morning hours of November 3, 2019, RCMP responded to a...
Sep 25, 2020
Possible COVID-19 exposure on Kamloops flight
KAMLOOPS - Passengers on a September 16 flight from Calgary to Kamloops may have been exposed to the COVID-19 virus.The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) has identified WestJet flight 3111 as a fl...
Sep 25, 2020
CP Cancels Holiday Train for 2020
KAMLOOPS - Another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. There will be no CP Rail Holiday train crossing the country this year. In a news release yesterday, CP said they will donate to local food banks, ...
Sep 25, 2020
Tourism operators calling for more provincial funding as bleak winter awaits some businesses
KAMLOOPS - Tourism operators like the Delta Hotel downtown have been hit hard this summer in the aftermath of COVID-19. After a temporary closure in March, they bounced back, but only up to 50 per cen...
Sep 24, 2020
City of Merritt hopes rain helps ease water restrictions
MERRITT, BC - On Monday, the City of Merritt asked residents to cease watering their lawns or washing their cars after the province declared level four drought conditions on the Coldwater River.The re...
Sep 24, 2020
Merritt's Coldwater Pub confident in cleanliness after COVID-19 exposure over the weekend
MERRITT, BC - The Coldwater Hotel is an institution in Merritt. It's been open for over 110 years and survived the last pandemic back in 1918. So when Krystyna Powell, restaurant manager found out the...
Sep 24, 2020
Province reports daily increase of 148 new COVID-19 cases; five in Interior Health
VICTORIA -The province is reporting 148 new cases of COVID-19 today (Sep. 24). Across B.C., 1,371 cases of the virus are considered active. The Interior Health region has an increase of five cases for...
Sep 24, 2020
TRU students hoping to raise awareness of social issues in BC election campaign
KAMLOOPS - A pair of students who are taking courses in social work and human services fields at Thompson Rivers University (TRU), plan to host an all-candidates forum to discuss social issues in the ...
Sep 24, 2020
