Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - Budget deliberations are ongoing at city hall in Kamloops. This week, council will consider a list of supplemental budget items at a community of the whole meeting on Tuesday (Feb 14) morni...

KAMLOOPS - Despite cold weather and snow at times last month, the city of Kamloops saw drier than normal monthly averages, according to Environment Canada.Temperatures in January were warmer than aver...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers secured themselves another win on home ice, defeating the Saskatoon Blades 5-2 on Friday (Feb.10). Olen Zellweger opened the scoring for the Blazers in the first period...

MERRITT, B.C. - Standing outside the Ministry of Forest building in Merritt, employees at Aspen Planers, logging truck drivers and others impacted by recent shutdowns are trying to get the province's ...

KAMLOOPS - In the wake of COVID-19 restrictions, the BC SPCA is seeing a flood of intakes. Shelters across the province have waitlists of people looking to surrender their animals, and according to th...

KAMLOOPS - Highway 5 north of Kamloops saw a three-vehicle collision Thursday afternoon (Feb. 9) involving two commercial vehicles and a pickup truck. The crash killed the driver of the pickup as a re...

MERRITT, B.C. - Valarie Stacey and her family have lived through hell twice - first during the wildfires in Barriere and then the Merritt floods. Now, after more than a year that saw the family split ...

KAMLOOPS - Following the announcement of Flair Airlines' direct service from Kamloops Airport (YKA) to Edmonton, YKA is still hopeful to include more discount flights options and fly to additional cit...

SURREY - RCMP in Surrey say missing woman in that city has spent time in Kamloops and the Cariboo in the past. Kianna Kisyel, 26, was reported missing on Jan. 29. She was last seen four days earlier. ...

KAMLOOPS - Travelers looking for a quick and cheap path between Kamloops and Edmonton will get their wish in June 2023.Flair Airlines, a low-cost Canadian airlines, is taking bookings for direct one-w...