Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
MAP: Here are the Kamloops businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
KAMLOOPS - Restaurants and facilities are closing their doors and reducing their services in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.This map will be updated with all of the current business closures...
Mar 18, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
IH says facilities with respiratory outbreaks not connected to COVID-19
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health is assuring residents the eight residential care homes listed as having 'Active Facility Outbreaks' are not related to COVID-19.As of Wednesday morning (March 18), the IH li...
Mar 18, 2020 Overlander LTC Facility (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Kamloops's downtown Delta Hotel closes amid COVID-19 concerns
KAMLOOPS - Concerns over a global pandemic and its impact on the local tourism industry has led to the temporary closure of a Kamloops hotel.Delta Hotel Kamloops general manager Bryan Pilbeam says clo...
Mar 17, 2020 Image Credit: Booking.com
Hotels in Kamloops feeling immediate impact from COVID-19 outbreak
KAMLOOPS - The impacts of COVID-19 have been seen immediately at hotels like the Best Western Plus with cancellations that are putting a major dent in the industry's bottom line. "It's millions of dol...
Mar 17, 2020 The Best Western Plus in Kamloops went from 75 to 25 per cent occupancy for bookings in March (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
BC Transit taking extra precautions to protect Kamloops riders from COVID-19
KAMLOOPS - While social distancing has become the norm for our daily lives, it's not as easy to practice if you rely on transit to get around the city. According to Communications Manager for BC Trans...
Mar 17, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops Airport advises air travellers to expect more restrictions
KAMLOOPS - Flights are still arriving and departing from Fulton Field for the time being, but with more and more travel restrictions coming down each day, that could change. As of Wednesday (Mar. 18),...
Mar 17, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops RCMP investigating liquor store theft in Westsyde
KAMLOOPS - Police are investigating a St. Patrick's Day theft at the Westsyde Liquor Store.At roughly 1:00 p.m. today (March 17), two men entered the store, walked around briefly, and allegedly stole ...
Mar 17, 2020 Image Credit: RCMP Handout
Fire crews soak grassfire on Tk'emlups Reserve
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue (KFR) crews doused a small grassfire Tuesday afternoon (Mar. 17) - one of the first such fires in the Kamloops area this year. Crews were called to a fire on the Tk'eml...
Mar 17, 2020
City of Kamloops to await province's decision on postponing arts centre referendum
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops says direction will have to come from the provincial government if the referendum into the Kamloops Centre for the Arts (KCA) will be postponed.The referendum on borrow...
Mar 17, 2020 Image Credit: City of Kamloops
Organizers cancel 2020 CFJC Boogie the Bridge
KAMLOOPS - One of the major events of the spring will take a break in 2020. The CFJC Boogie the Bridge has been cancelled by organizers due to the COVID-19 situation.In a news release last night (Marc...
Mar 17, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
