Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - NOTE: Organizers say the day is a go, in spite of the smoke, but some individual events may be cancelled on short notice. A fun annual event is taking place on Sunday on The Shore, as the S...

KAMLOOPS - Since September of 2016, nearly all of the city’s capital projects have come in under or right on budget. However, four recent projects are over budget by more than $1 million collect...

MERRITT, B.C. - Highway 5A is closed in both directions between Kamloops and Merritt Friday afternoon thanks to a semi crash. The crash itself happened near Nicola Lake. Video from the scene posted to...

KAMLOOPS - Air quality in Kamloops, already poor from the scores of wildfires burning around the province and into Washington, degraded further Friday afternoon. Shortly after the noon hour, particula...

KAMLOOPS - The Canadian Red Cross has launched an appeal for funds to help those displaced by this year’s B.C. wildfires. The agency says help is needed in the present, but also in the months ah...

KAMLOOPS - An Environment Canada meteorologist says it could be September before Kamloops sees a smoke-free sky again. Matt MacDonald says the ridge trapping the smoke over the BC Interior is one that...

KAMLOOPS - When Midnight the cat found himself trapped inside almost 10 metres of underground pipe at a supply company, a local plumber came to his rescue. That same plumber has gone on to give the li...

TOBIANO, B.C. - It was a little over a month ago that one lucky woman was named the winner of the 2018 Y Dream Home. Now, construction has begun on the next dream home, located in Tobiano. Thompson Ri...

KAMLOOPS - The executive director of ASK Wellness says a permanent location would be more ideal, saying the mobile supervised consumption sites on each side of the river are taking a toll on the socia...