Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

Online COVID-19 test booking tool launched within Interior Health
KAMLOOPS - Booking a test for COVID-19 will soon be as simple as clicking a button. Interior Health is announcing the launch of online booking for those experiencing COVID-19 symptoms. The new online ...
Oct 20, 2020

ELECTION ISSUES: Childcare
KAMLOOPS - While the epicentre of this election is COVID-19 and economic recovery during and following the pandemic, each major party is making childcare a focus of the election. The NDP, Liberal and ...
Oct 20, 2020

RCMP on the lookout for missing Kamloops man
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP would like you to be on the lookout for a missing man.Ryan Friesen, 43, has not been seen for several days and RCMP say they are trying to determine the last person to see him...
Oct 20, 2020

Hospitality Inn shooting probe leads to unrelated arrest in Chase
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say the investigation into Friday's (Oct. 16) shooting at the Hospitality Inn on Columbia Street West has led to an arrest - but not for the shooting itself.In a news release,...
James Peters Oct 20, 2020

Province plans 150-kilometre Trans Canada closure through Fraser Canyon
SPUZZUM, B.C. - A 150-kilometre stretch of the Trans Canada Highway will be closed for part of this week for bridge repairs.The province's Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure says the stretc...
Oct 20, 2020

Kamloops Food Bank receives $12,000 to beef up security after vehicle vandalized
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Food Bank is installing extra security following last month's act of vandalism that left one of its transport vehicles undriveable, and they are getting a helping hand to add t...
Oct 20, 2020

Parts of Aberdeen, Knutsford without water after pipe break
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops says parts of Aberdeen and Knutsford may be without water Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 20). A notice posted to the City of Kamloops website notes there has been a water main...
James Peters Oct 20, 2020

Shuswap woman wins more than $750,000 playing online 'Wheel of Fortune'
SALMON ARM, B.C. - A Shuswap woman turned an 80-cent spin on a PlayNow.com game into more than $750,000.According to a B.C. Lottery Corporation news release, Baillie Bridle was about to finish playing...
Oct 20, 2020

IIO clears RCMP sniper who killed distraught, armed Lytton man
LYTTON, B.C. - A report from B.C.'s police watchdog says RCMP officers who shot and killed a distraught man in Lytton only considered lethal force as a last resort. The Independent Investigation Offic...
James Peters Oct 20, 2020

Provincial overdose death rate declines, but Kamloops still sits fourth in B.C.
VICTORIA - The rate of drug overdose deaths decreased last month, but is still disturbingly high.That conclusion stems from new overdose death statistics released Tuesday (Oct. 20) by the B.C. Coroner...
Oct 20, 2020

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