Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Cardiac care unit at RIH to remain closed; ICCHA-Wish Fund cancels annual fundraiser
KAMLOOPS - Cardiac patients in Kamloops are likely to continue to be transported to Kelowna for care for at least another decade. That's according to the ICCHA-Wish Fund after its founder Al Patel met...
Oct 16, 2025
RSV outbreak declared on 5 South at Royal Inland Hospital
KAMLOOPS - A respiratory outbreak has been declared in at least one section of Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops.In a notice posted to its health facility disease outbreaks list, Interior Health has d...
Oct 16, 2025
Blazers score six unanswered, ground the Warriors 7-5 in Moose Jaw
KAMLOOPS - Six unanswered goals in Moose Jaw have helped the Kamloops Blazers turn their six-game Prairie road trip around. Following a pair of losses in Prince Albert and Saskatoon and a win in Regin...
Oct 16, 2025
Clouston says Blazers wrestling with early-season grind; Hurlbert sensational
MOOSE JAW, SASK. - Shaun Clouston used the example of players failing to retreat quickly into their own zone to defend to illustrate the type of basic mistakes that have plagued his Kamloops Blazers o...
Oct 15, 2025
Coats for Folks donation collection open at Salvation Army Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The temperatures have taken a noticeable drop in the BC Interior this week and the Salvation Army Kamloops has begun its annual collection of coats and boots for people in need of proper wi...
Oct 15, 2025
All redos of medical tests impacted by Westwold truck crash complete; original patient samples returned to IH
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health says it's caught up to the retesting that had to be undertaken after a semi-truck delivering hundreds of patient samples crashed into a barn in Westwold. The incident stems ...
Oct 15, 2025
Early pregnancy care options still available with OB-GYN departures on horizon at Royal Inland Hospital
KAMLOOPS - With the announcement of seven OB-GYN's resigning their in-hospital care under Interior Health at Royal Inland Hospital, questions have been raised about the future of women's health care a...
Oct 15, 2025
Merritt's emergency department to close temporarily Wednesday evening; first closure since March
MERRITT, B.C. - Interior Health has announced a temporary closure of the emergency department at Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt.In a news release distributed Wednesday afternoon (Oct. 15), IH says ...
Oct 15, 2025
Kamloops MP's bill on legal changes surrounding intimate partner violence set to be debated by end of month
KAMLOOPS - A private member's bill from the Kamloops-Thompson-Nicola MP is headed to debate in the House of Commons later this month. The bill would change Canada's legal system by creating a new offe...
Oct 15, 2025
Petition launched to keep notorious Wells Gray killer behind bars
BOWDEN, AB. - Ten months before his next scheduled parole hearing, an online petition has been launched calling for mass murderer David Ennis to remain behind bars.Ennis was convicted of terrorizing a...
Oct 15, 2025
