Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

RCMP say firearms made Thursday drug seizure in Kamloops more significant
KAMLOOPS - RCMP say investigators seized thousands of doses of illicit drugs destined for the streets of Kamloops Thursday, but the most significant impact of the operation may have been the three gun...
Jan 8, 2021

Kamloops businesses disappointed, not surprised by extended COVID-19 restrictions
KAMLOOPS - The provincial health officer announced an extension of current COVID-19 restrictions Thursday (Jan. 8). The news was disappointing for local sectors currently struggling under the restrict...
Jan 8, 2021

New COVID-19 data should increase vaccination rates in long-term care: Lake
KAMLOOPS - At its peak in December, COVID-19 cases at B.C. care facilities reached 485 in a week. In the same period, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control reported 100 deaths. That data will now be mad...
Jan 8, 2021

Interior Health issues four drug alerts for Kamloops after contaminated substances found
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health (IH) has issued four separate drug alerts for Kamloops. The alerts, all issued on Friday (Jan. 8), are for four distinct substances that may contain fentanyl and benzodiazep...
James Peters Jan 8, 2021

More than five kilograms of drugs seized after Valleyview raid Thursday
KAMLOOPS - A police operation in Valleyview Thursday (Jan. 7) ended up yielding guns and a large quantities of drugs from other locations.The Kamloops RCMP Targeted Enforcement Unit (TEU) and Southeas...
James Peters Jan 8, 2021

Calendar Club comes through with bears for local trauma victims
KAMLOOPS - A seasonal retail store in Aberdeen Mall is leaving a long-lasting impact on victims of trauma in Kamloops.Calendar Club, which pops up every year in the mall around the holiday season, has...
Jan 8, 2021

Kamloops airport losing two flights a week to Calgary following WestJet cutbacks
KAMLOOPS - The operations manager at Kamloops Airport says there will be minimal impacts on flight schedules after WestJet announced a reduction of 160 domestic flights on Friday (Jan. 8). Ed Ratuski ...
James Peters Jan 8, 2021

Public consultation sought on Chase highway widening project
KAMLOOPS - With COVID-19 restrictions preventing traditional public feedback opportunities, the Transportation Ministry is hoping highway users will take a look at some videos explaining the project t...
Jan 8, 2021

Merritt fire hall expansion nears completion
MERRITT, B.C. - The long and winding road that has been the expansion project at the Merritt Fire Department is finally nearing completion.Back in 2012, the results of a fire station location study we...
Jan 8, 2021

Construction cranes at Royal Inland Hospital to come down next week
KAMLOOPS - It's a sign the $400-million Royal Inland Hospital Patient Care Tower project is moving to a new phase.Interior Health says the two massive construction cranes on the site will be dismantle...
James Peters Jan 8, 2021

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