Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops says work to pave a one-block section of Fourth Avenue downtown will be taking place Friday (Aug. 29). In a brief social media post, the city said Fourth Avenue between...

TOBIANO, B.C. - The person who drowned in Tobiano last Saturday (Aug. 23) evening has been identified by police as a Thompson Rivers University international student.In a news release Thursday (Aug. 2...

SEYMOUR ARM, B.C. - The BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) says a fire that sparked north of Seymour Arm on Monday (Aug. 25) is being held at 10 hectares in size. In an update, it said the Cayenne Creek wildf...

CLEARWATER - (UPDATE 7:15 a.m.): The emergency room at the Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital in Clearwater has reopened after a nine hour overnight closure. Late Thursday (Aug. 28) evening, Interior Heal...

KAMLOOPS - On Thursday (Aug. 28), City of Kamloops staff were asked by the Build Kamloops Committee to begin the process of creating a non-profit organization to run the day-to-day operations of the K...

KAMLOOPS - The new semester at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is set to get underway next week, under a whole new dynamic of student enrollment. Federal mandates have lowered the amount of internati...

MERRITT, B.C. - Merritt's mayor has added his voice to the growing chorus calling on School District 58 to hold a crucial upcoming meeting in Merritt instead of Princeton.The Sept. 10 meeting will dis...

KAMLOOPS - The North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) Council will have more to say in the coming weeks after it announced that Calgary will no longer be hosting the 2027 North American Indigenous Gam...

MERRITT, B.C. - The family of a man killed in a hit-and-run on the Coquihalla Highway one year ago is making a desperate appeal for information.The body of Buddy Rhodes, 24, was found at the side of t...

KAMLOOPS - New data from Environment Canada shows several Kamloops-area communities set new daily temperature records for the fourth consecutive day because of the ongoing spell of unseasonably warm w...