Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Local wine industry adapting well to COVID-19 guidelines
KAMLOOPS - Many businesses have struggled to keep afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic, but certain businesses have been doing quite well. Local wineries are enjoying a season that nearly resembles sum...
Jul 31, 2020
Updated: Highway 1 reopens near Tappen
TAPPEN, B.C - UPDATED: Drive B.C says the highway has reopened. PREVIOUS: A section of Highway 1 near Tappen is closed in both directions this afternoon. According to Drive B.C., a vehicle incident oc...
Jul 31, 2020
Kamloops Fire Rescue battles house fire in Rayleigh
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue crews are on the scene of a pair of residential house fires in the Rayleigh area this afternoon (July 31). The first fire appears to have broken out just after 2 pm alo...
Jul 31, 2020
Interior Health COVID-19 case total grows by nine
KELOWNA - Interior Health is reporting nine new cases of COVID-19 today (July 31). The regional total is now at 369 cases. The health authority says there have been 137 cases linked to Kelowna since J...
Jul 31, 2020
David Miller found guilty of second-degree murder at Aberdeen motel
KAMLOOPS - A B.C. Supreme Court has determined David Miller is responsible for killing a Fraser Valley woman in the Aberdeen area of Kamloops in 2016. However, Justice Madam Marguerite Church found Mi...
Jul 31, 2020
Food prices on the rise amid COVID-19 pandemic
KAMLOOPS - At the Wednesday version of the Kamloops Regional Farmers Market, the bounty of local farms is on full display. Consumers were buying up onions, beans, carrots, and beets, keeping local far...
Jul 30, 2020
B.C. reports 29 new cases of COVID-19, four new cases in Interior Health
KAMLOOPS - Provincial health officials report 29 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C. today (July 30) for a total of 3,591 cases. This includes four new cases in Interior Health since Wednesday, for a total ...
Jul 30, 2020
Homeless population struggling during Kamloops' first heatwave
KAMLOOPS - All Jacqueline Webber can do to stay cool is fan her face. But that doesn't do the trick in this kind heatwave. "Right now, we're just drinking lots of water, trying to find as much shade a...
Jul 30, 2020
Federal government investing $645K into local charities
KAMLOOPS - The United Way Thompson Nicola Cariboo will be distributing $645,000 from the Federal Emergency Community Support Fund to local non-profit organizations. According to a release from the Uni...
Jul 30, 2020
New TRU-based research chair to focus on forecasting, prevention of B.C. wildfires
KAMLOOPS - The province is chipping in $5 million to support a new position of a research chair at Thompson Rivers University, to improve the understanding of wildfires. B.C.'s Minister of Forests, La...
Jul 30, 2020
