Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

No fatal crashes but plenty of speeders on BC highways
KAMLOOPS - The good news is that no lives were lost on B.C. highways over the Victoria Day long weekend. The bad news is that concerns about excessive speeds across the province are real. In a news re...
Dave Barry May 19, 2020

Kamloops Legion to host tribute ceremony honouring Canadian Forces Snowbirds
KAMLOOPS - Local legion members have organized a tribute ceremony this week to honour Captain Jennifer Casey, and the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, and support the recovery of Captain Richard MacDougall ...
Dylana Kneeshaw May 19, 2020

Kamloops residents come together to honour Capt. Jennifer Casey and Canadian Forces Snowbirds
KAMLOOPS - Drums could be heard all around Fulton Field on Monday, just a few blocks away from where Capt. Jennifer Casey's jet crashed into a Brocklehurst neighbourhood. Hundreds of Kamloops resident...
May 18, 2020

Province reports 16 new COVID-19 cases over last two days
VICTORIA - Provincial health officials announced 16 new COVID-19 positives today (May 18), bringing B.C's total case count to 2,444.8 cases were identified between Saturday (May 16) and Sunday (May 17...
May 18, 2020

Investigation into Snowbird crash underway
KAMLOOPS - An investigative team with the Royal Canadian Air Force will be in Kamloops Monday afternoon to try to determine what was behind Sunday's deadly crash of a Snowbird jet. The RCAF Directorat...
Dave Barry May 18, 2020

One dead in Canadian Forces Snowbird crash in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - A Canadian Forces Snowbird jet has crashed into the Brocklehurst residential area in Kamloops. The jet had just taken off from the Kamloops airport around 11:40 am Sunday morning. One membe...
James Peters May 17, 2020

Special weather statement issued for South Thompson, with heavy rain expected
KAMLOOPS - A special weather statement has been issued for the South Thompson today (May 17), with heavy rainfall expected in the next 24 hours. According to meteorologist Lisa Ervin, a frontal system...
Dylana Kneeshaw May 17, 2020

B.C health officials reporting 21 new cases heading into May long weekend
VICTORIA - British Columbians are being urged to continue with physical distancing, and stay close to home this May long weekend, as the provincial COVID-19 case count grows to 2,428 positive cases.Pr...
Dylana Kneeshaw May 16, 2020

Canadian Forces Snowbirds to fly by Kamloops region
KAMLOOPS - If you're in the Kamloops area around 1:30 this afternoon (May 16), go outside and look up. The Canadian Forces Snowbirds will be doing a flyby over the local region today, as part of a nat...
May 16, 2020

Shuswap businesses look to find the balance between profit and safety
SCOTCH CREEK, B.C. - A long weekend in the Shuswap usually brings out plenty of campers and people who visit businesses in the small lakeside communities. But, heading into the Victoria Day long weeke...
May 15, 2020

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