Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

Kamloops Search and Rescue recruiting drive slated for Saturday
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Search and Rescue is hosting a recruitment drive this Saturday (March 8). The group is looking for more recruits after its busiest year on record. "Our callouts have gone up we had...
Mar 07, 2025

Kamloops MLA Milobar proposes idea to help with regional hospital closures
KAMLOOPS - The Nicola Valley Hospital's emergency room has been closed seven times in the past two weeks and eight total times so far in 2025. That follows approximately 40 closures over the past two ...
Victor Kaisar Mar 07, 2025

Trade war uncertainty making its mark on economic activity, Kamloops business investment plans
KAMLOOPS - The tariff situation between Canada and the United States is changing by the hour, with Friday (March 7) marking another shift in the ongoing trade war. The latest bout has put Canadian bus...
Victor Kaisar Mar 07, 2025

Merritt emergency room closed again Friday night
MERRITT, B.C. - For the seventh time in the past two weeks, Interior Health has announced a temporary closure of the emergency department at Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt.IH says the ER will close...
Mar 07, 2025

Kamloops maker of eco-friendly concrete gets $4.6M funding deal from Ottawa
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops company that turns recycled glass into an ingredient of cement has signed four-year funding deal with the federal government.The funding from Sustainable Development Technology C...
Victor Kaisar Mar 07, 2025

Radiothon 2025 raises record-breaking $650K for RIH Foundation
KAMLOOPS - Organizers of the 11th edition of Radiothon on B100 Thursday (March 6) are elated as the event helped raise $650,243 for the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation. RIH Foundation CEO Heidi Colem...
Victor Kaisar Mar 07, 2025

Social media influencers charged in 2023 South Cariboo illegal hunting investigation
SHERIDAN LAKE, B.C. - Two social media influencers are among four people facing dozens of illegal hunting charges after a 2023 incident in the South Cariboo.In a social media post Friday (March 7), th...
James Peters Mar 07, 2025

Kamloops to receive portion of $80M government funding announcement to address homelessness
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops is one of three B.C. cities that will together receive nearly $80 million in government funding to address homeless encampments.In a news release distributed Friday (March 7), the ...
James Peters Mar 07, 2025

Woman arrested after intoxicated teenager found with stab wound at McArthur Island
KAMLOOPS - RCMP say a woman was taken into custody after a teenager was found with stab wounds at McArthur Island Wednesday (March 5) night. Kamloops RCMP say they responded to reports of an assault i...
Victor Kaisar Mar 07, 2025

Desperately searching for a living kidney donor, Kamloops' Firman and family staying positive
KAMLOOPS - March is National Kidney Awareness Month and it coincides with a Kamloops family's plea for help.Ryan Firman was diagnosed with kidney disease when he was a teenager and his search for a li...
Victor Kaisar Mar 06, 2025

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