Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

Smoke still a major problem in Kamloops today.
KAMLOOPS - It might be a good day to stay indoors if you’re bothered by smoke. The smoke is laying heavy over the city this morning and it isn’t going away for a bit yet. It’s coming...
Kayla Derkach Aug 13, 2018

Highway 1 reopens between Savona and Cache Creek
KAMLOOPS - Traffic is moving between Savona and Cache Creek on Highway 1 west of Kamloops – slowly after a mudslide blocked the Trans Canada late Saturday night. The highway was reopened to sing...
Kayla Derkach Aug 12, 2018

South Cariboo hammered by slides and fires
KAMLOOPS -UPDATE - Traffic is starting to move again in the Cache Creek area after a series of mud slides yesterday. The slides closed sections of the Trans Canada Highway and Highway 97 after heavy r...
Kayla Derkach Aug 12, 2018

Severe thunderstorm watch blankets the region
KAMLOOPS - Severe thunderstorms are possible across much of the Southwest Interior and Columbias today. Environment Canada has issued a watch, stating the storm system will move in from the coast, bri...
Kayla Derkach Aug 11, 2018

Seventh annual Ribfest kicks off in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Ribfest is well underway at Riverside Park. The seventh annual event kicked off at 11 a.m. Friday, just in time for the Kamloops lunch crowd. The smell of ribs smoking on the grill wafts ov...
Kayla Derkach Aug 10, 2018

Air quality improving in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The air quality has improved substantially over the past 24 hours in Kamloops. “There’s still a haze in the air,” says Air Quality Meteorologist Ralph Adams with the Minis...
Kayla Derkach Aug 10, 2018

Heat expected today but showers this weekend in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops is expected to flirt with another weather record today but we’re in for a big change this weekend. Environment Canada Meteorologist Doug Lundquist says highs could hit 38 tod...
Kayla Derkach Aug 10, 2018

Kamloops unemployment rate drops
KAMLOOPS - Good news on the employment front in Kamloops. Statistics Canada says unemployment was down year-over-year in the Tournament Capital. “For Kamloops, what we’re seeing is the une...
Kayla Derkach Aug 10, 2018

Fire danger not keeping tourists away from BC interior
KAMLOOPS - With near-record temperatures scorching British Columbia's landscape today, it's the perfect time to get to a lake or a river, find some shade, and enjoy the sunshine. But with that sunshin...
Kayla Derkach Aug 09, 2018

Preparations underway for Ribfest and Hot Nite in the City
KAMLOOPS - It’s that time of year when smoke fills the sky over Kamloops, the smoke of the grill that is. The seventh annual Ribfest gets underway at Riverside Park this weekend, an event that i...
Kayla Derkach Aug 09, 2018

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