Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Masks become key priority for Kamloops healthcare workers amidst PPE supply issues
KAMLOOPS - Across Canada and around the world, getting ahold of adequate supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers has become a concern. In Kamloops, healthcare facility s...
Apr 06, 2020 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Thousands of Kamloops residents come together to help neighbours during pandemic
KAMLOOPS - A grassroots volunteer group has surpassed 3,500 members eager to help locals during the COVID-19 pandemic.Caremongering-Kamloops is a volunteer team that shares resources and offers help a...
Apr 06, 2020 Image Credit: Kent Simmonds
B.C. confirms new COVID-19 death; outbreak at another correctional facility
VICTORIA - A man in his 40s has died as a result of COVID-19.That's according to B.C. provincial health officer Bonnie Henry, who made the announcement during her daily news briefing on Monday (Apr. 6...
Apr 06, 2020 Image Credit: BC Government
Van crashes into North Shore home
KAMLOOPS - RCMP are investigating why a van crashed into a North Shore home Monday (Apr. 6).First responders were called to a home near the intersection of Twelfth Street and Lethbridge Avenue around ...
Apr 06, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Adam Donnelly
Kamloops-area MP says application system for COVID-19 benefit 'holding up'
KAMLOOPS - The member of parliament for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo says it appears the application system for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) is performing about as well as can be expected...
Apr 06, 2020 Image Credit: Skype / CFJC Today
Sun Peaks urges tourists, seasonal property owners to stay away
SUN PEAKS, B.C. - The municipality of Sun Peaks is urging non-residents to stay home and stay away from the resort town during the COVID-19 pandemic.In a joint news release, Chief Administrative Offic...
Apr 06, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
BC Transit bus routes moving to summer schedule in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - As part of the response to COVID-19, public transit service in Kamloops is switching to the summer operation schedule today (Apr. 5). Given the pandemic situation, BC Transit and the City o...
Apr 05, 2020 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Interior Health warns public of virus at Anavets 290 Club
KAMLOOPS - Anyone who visited Anavets 290 Army & Navy Club between March 13 and March 17, may have come into contact with the COVID-19 virus. Interior Health issued a public statement advising peo...
Apr 04, 2020
BC health officials outline COVID-19 research progress, as provincial total climbs to 1,203 cases
VICTORIA - According to provincial health officials, there are now 1,203 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in British Columbia.In an update today (Apr. 4) Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry stated 2...
Apr 04, 2020 Chief Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry (Image Credit: BC Government)
IHA says exposure risk to general public is low, after Okanagan Correctional Centre inmate tests positive for COVID-19
OLIVER, B.C - Interior Health says the exposure risk to the general public is low, after an inmate at the Okanagan Correctional Centre tested positive for COVID-19. In a release from the health author...
Apr 04, 2020 (Image Credit: Interior Health Authority)
