Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops pharmacies seeing uptick in vaccinations ahead of flu season
KAMLOOPS - B.C. is in the third week of rolling out influenza and COVID-19 vaccines. The province is seeing an uptick this year, including right here in Kamloops. Pharmacies administered almost 82,000...
Oct 31, 2024
Extra, extra! Kamloops Chronicle hits newstands, hopes to build momentum
KAMLOOPS - Harry Fairbrother used to read the newspaper every day. For Fairbrother and many other avid newspaper readers, the loss of Kamloops This Week - the city's last print news outlet - was hard ...
Oct 31, 2024
Second annual Nicholas' Run for Youth Mental Health taking place Saturday
KAMLOOPS - This weekend, Kamloops residents will lace up their running shoes for Nicholas' Run for Youth Mental Health. It's the second year of the 5-kilometre walk/run event, which was founded in mem...
Oct 31, 2024
Court hearing for Kamloops mayor's defamation suit against councillor pushed to January
KAMLOOPS - A court proceeding to hear evidence in Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson's defamation lawsuit against a Kamloops councillor has been delayed until January.Hamer-Jackson filed the suit against Counci...
Oct 31, 2024
Conditions favourable for fall's first significant snowfall on highway passes near Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - There have been flirtatious tastes of winter conditions at the peaks of highway passes this fall, but the first notable snowfall of the season for the southern Interior could be around the ...
Oct 31, 2024
Prescribed burns near Williams Lake and Brookmere expected to begin Friday
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A pair of prescribed burns will make smoke visible near the City of Williams Lake and along Highway 5 from Merritt to Hope. The BC Wildfire Service says it will carry out a 23-he...
Oct 31, 2024
Kamloops United Church preschool operations not returning after fire restoration work
KAMLOOPS - One of the oldest preschools in the province, run out of the Kamloops United Church building, is set to close. Administrators and the board of the preschool say the move was unexpected, whi...
Oct 30, 2024
Unhappy with City Hall office move, Kamloops mayor sets up shop at his West Victoria car lot
KAMLOOPS - The mayor of Kamloops has officially been locked out of his office. Earlier this month, city council ordered Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson's office moved to an unused boardroom in the basement o...
Oct 30, 2024
Prescribed fuel burns planned near Merritt, Williams Lake
MERRITT AND WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The B.C. Wildfire Service is notifying residents of Merritt and Williams Lake that it will carry out fuel burning near those cities starting Friday (Nov. 1).The proje...
Oct 30, 2024
New TNRD fire hall in Monte Creek taking shape
KAMLOOPS - Construction has begun on the new fire hall for Monte Creek.The Thompson Nicola Regional District (TNRD) says design work on the new hall was completed over the summer and construction on t...
Oct 30, 2024
