Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Shuswap officials ask tourists to consider staying home this long weekend
SALMON ARM, B.C. - Anyone planning to spend the long weekend with a road trip to Shuswap Lake or other areas in the Columbia Shuswap, is being encouraged to stay home.Columbia Shuswap Regional Distric...
May 13, 2020
Elective surgeries resume in Interior Health May 19
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health (IH) has begun contacting patients who had their elective surgeries postponed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to try to reschedule their procedures.In a media tel...
May 13, 2020
Firefighters douse landscape fire near Heffley Creek
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue crews have a landscape fire in the Heffley Creek area under control.The blaze broke out mid-afternoon Tuesday (May 12).Assistant Chief Ryan Cail says the fire grew to a...
May 12, 2020
Services returning in Phase Two of B.C. Restart Plan waiting for PPE requirement specifics
KAMLOOPS - Should transmission rates continue to lower, the B.C. Government's second phase of re-opening services and businesses will begin next week. More people will be going out to stores and appoi...
May 12, 2020
Paid on-street parking in downtown Kamloops to return next week; lots and parkades to remain free
KAMLOOPS - Paid on-street parking will return to downtown Kamloops next Tuesday.Fees for downtown parking were lifted on March 20 in order to encourage shoppers to patronize businesses hard hit by the...
May 12, 2020
Airtankers return to Kamloops for the wildfire season
KAMLOOPS - Every spring, Kamloops residents notice a new presence in the skies above the city. Airtankers are back at the Provincial Wildfire Coordination Centre in Kamloops and they are ready for use...
May 12, 2020
Colombo Lodge serving RIH staff dinner to show gratitude for their work during the pandemic
KAMLOOPS - It's International Nurses Day, a day that has never been celebrated so much as it is this year with health-care professionals putting their lives on the line to deal with COVID-19. The Colo...
May 12, 2020
Search underway for missing Merritt woman
MERRITT - A search is underway for a missing 44-year-old woman in Merritt. Lalie Honeywell was last seen at the Double D Motel Monday (May 11) at 6:00 pm. Police were alerted to her disappearance this...
May 12, 2020
Ground stability issues lead to closure of Kamloops Home Depot
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Home Depot location on Hillside Drive has closed Tuesday (May 12) due to ground stability concerns.Vehicles are not being allowed into the store's parking lot off of Hillside D...
May 12, 2020
Contractor plans to have Highway 5A at Stump Lake passable before the weekend
MERRITT, B.C. - The contractor in charge of maintaining Highway 5A says crews hope to have traffic flowing through the Stump Lake area later this week.High water has submerged the road surface in thre...
May 12, 2020
