Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

MERRITT, B.C. - The City of Merritt is in the second year of a two-year plan to restock its reserves as it builds back from the 2021 floods. Last year, residents faced a 12.5 per cent tax increase, wi...

KAMLOOPS -- B.C. Minister of Forests Ravi Parmar said the province is providing help to the state of California and the hundreds of thousands impacted by wildfires raging in the Los Angeles County are...

KAMLOOPS - B.C.'s Ministry of Municipal Affairs wants Kamloops City Council to provide a report on the work it has done to implement the recommendations made by municipal adviser Henry Braun. In a let...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops city councillors are being asked for approval to borrow $150.7 million to fund the validation, detailed design and construction of a new RCMP detachment on Battle Street downtown.I...

UPDATE (4:45 p.m.): The Trans-Canada Highway east of Salmon Arm has reopened in both directions after a crash earlier this morning. DriveBC says while the road has reopened, there will be minor delays...

UPDATE (10:45 a.m.): DriveBC says the incident is clear and Highway 97 reopened.EARLIER: KAMLOOPS - A vehicle incident east of Monte Creek has closed traffic on Highway 97 in both directions. DriveBC ...

KAMLOOPS - Three suspects were arrested after a break-in at a Hillside Drive business. Kamloops RCMP say officers were called to the 1000-block of Hillside Drive at around 1:30 a.m. Thursday (Jan. 9) ...

KAMLOOPS -- The TRU WolfPack volleyball teams took different approaches to the Canada West holiday break. While head coach Chad Grimm and his women's team went separate ways to spend time with friends...

KAMLOOPS - The first phase of a new project to add lighting and banners on the city's north shore wrapped up last month, with plans to expand on the work and eventually install lighting improvements f...

KAMLOOPS - People around the world have been tuned in to the multiple fires burning in the Los Angeles, Malibu and Hollywood Hills areas this week and a wildfire research specialist at Thompson Rivers...