Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

VERNON - Interior Health has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at a retirement residence in Vernon today (Feb. 10). In a release the health authority states one resident has tested positive at Carrington P...

KAMLOOPS - Non-stop service from Vancouver and Kamloops continued this week, with the inaugural flight of Pacific Coastal Airlines to Fulton Field. Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 9) the airline began a new s...

KAMLOOPS - A winter cold snap has arrived in Kamloops, but there's no shortage of people getting out to enjoy the blue skies and sunshine from city parks. The trail count for 2019 was around 600,000 v...

KAMLOOPS - Interior Health is responding to concerns raised by the BC Nurses' Union (BCNU) over personal protective equipment. BCNU President Christine Sorensen says nurses are overworked during the C...

KAMLOOPS - A portion of 100 addiction recovery and treatment beds announced by the province's Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions Tuesday will come to the Kamloops area.In a news release, the pro...

KAMLOOPS - Mayor Ken Christian called it Kamloops' lowest tax increase in over a decade.Kamloops council provisionally approved a 0.93 per cent tax increase - $20.72 for an average home - during its C...

KAMLOOPS - UPDATED 12:57 p.m: RCMP say Michael O'Shea has now been found.

MERRITT, B.C. - (Updated as of 10:30 am)Merritt Fire crews are currently on-scene at an active fire at Aspen Planers.Crews arrived on scene shortly after 9:00 am Tuesday morning as smoke billowed from...

KAMLOOPS - Arctic air has moved into B.C., bringing with it much colder temperatures than Kamloops has seen so far this winter. "We do get these ridges of high pressure, these Arctic ridges, throughou...

KAMLOOPS - Interior Health (IH) says there are no new COVID-19 cases connected to the outbreak at Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) Monday (Feb. 8).In a news release, IH says there remain 102 cases at RIH -...