Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Blue Jays fever packing bars in Kamloops as 'Canada's Team' makes historic run at World Series glory
KAMLOOPS - The Toronto Blue Jays are one win away from immortality as they lead the best of seven World Series over the Los Angeles Dodgers three games to two, with the final two games of the series t...
Oct 30, 2025
Third annual Nicholas' Run for Youth Mental Health set for Pioneer Park Saturday
KAMLOOPS - Pioneer Park will be filled with eager runners in post-Halloween costumes Saturday (Nov. 1), for the latest edition of Nicholas' Run for Youth Mental Health. The event aims to raise money f...
Oct 30, 2025
Kamloops MLA tables legislation to 'draw attention' to proposed changes to pipeline assessments
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops MLA has introduced legislation to draw attention to "the latest NDP backroom deal" that his party says will shift hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes onto homeowners and sm...
Oct 30, 2025
Overnight closure coming to Exit 374 on Trans-Canada Highway in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - There will be an overnight closure on a major Trans-Canada Highway exit in Kamloops this evening, Oct. 30. The Ministry of Transportation and Transit will be repairing the guardrail at the ...
Oct 30, 2025
Merritt Mountie faces multiple gun charges in case spanning three years
MERRITT - A Merritt RCMP officer is facing a series of firearms-related charges including possessing firearms obtained through the commission of a crime. A statement from the BC Prosecution Service sa...
Oct 30, 2025 File Photo via Merritt RCMP
One person taken to hospital after air ambulance lands at Coquihalla crash scene
MERRITT - One person was taken to hospital by air ambulance in a stable condition after a crash on the Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt.BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) says it was call...
Oct 30, 2025
City of Merritt promotes Rick Green to vacant Chief Administrative Officer role
MERRITT - The City of Merritt has announced the appointment of Rick Green as its new Chief Administrative Officer (CAO). Green, who had been serving as acting CAO following the departure of Cynthia Wh...
Oct 30, 2025
BC Wildfire Service to conduct planned burn near Merritt
MERRITT - The BC Wildfire Service will be conducting a burn near the City of Merritt that could start as early as next week and run until the end of March 2026.It says the fuel management project - wh...
Oct 30, 2025
Vehicle recovery work to reduce Highway 97 traffic south of Monte Creek to single-lane-alternating
KAMLOOPS - Drivers traveling between Kamloops and Vernon should expect brief delays on their commute. DriveBC says vehicle recovery work is planned on Highway 97 between Duck Range Road and Monte Cree...
Oct 30, 2025
Investigators looking into string of property fires throughout Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - In October alone, there have been four separate property fires around the City of Kamloops, and so far only one has been ruled as not suspicious. That fire was earlier this month at a home ...
Oct 29, 2025
