Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Colombo Lodge cooking up 1,000 thank-you meals for Royal Inland Hospital staff
KAMLOOPS - To give thanks and support to Royal Inland Hospital staff, the Colombo Lodge and Italian Cultural Centre are showing their appreciation through food. President Ross Spina says the community...
Feb 02, 2021
Eighteen staff, 200 students at Sa-Hali Secondary in self-isolation due to COVID-19 exposures
KAMLOOPS - The superintendent of the Kamloops-Thompson School District says about 200 students and 18 staff at Sa-Hali Secondary School are under mandatory self-isolation because of direct contact wit...
Feb 02, 2021
Driver arrested after crash with pedestrian in downtown Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - RCMP say a crash involving a pedestrian in downtown Kamloops may have been criminal in nature.The collision took place at around 11:41 a.m. at the intersection of Third Avenue and Nicola St...
Feb 02, 2021
St. Ann's Academy added to COVID-19 exposure list
KAMLOOPS - St. Ann's Academy in Kamloops has been added to the Interior Health (IH) COVID-19 school exposure list.According to IH, the exposure at St. Ann's took place on Wednesday through Friday of l...
Feb 02, 2021
January 26 Westjet flight to Kamloops flagged for COVID-19 exposure
KAMLOOPS - For the first time in more than a month, a Kamloops flight has had a COVID-19 exposure.The B.C. Centre for Disease Control reports an exposure on Westjet Flight 3111 from Calgary to Kamloop...
James Peters Feb 02, 2021
One dead, two injured in mud rush incident at New Afton Mine near Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - One person has died in an industrial accident at the New Gold owned New Afton Mine just west of Kamloops.The company says the person was killed in a mud rush incident. Three people were inv...
James Peters Feb 02, 2021
Fifth COVID-19 exposure at Sa-Hali Secondary involves five cases, all five days last week
KAMLOOPS - Sa-Hali Secondary School has sent an email notice home to parents detailing the school's fifth COVID-19 exposure in the past two weeks. The letter from Principal Rachael Sdoutz says the exp...
James Peters Feb 01, 2021
PHOTOS: Volunteers build speed skating oval on Inks Lake
KAMLOOPS - A group of volunteers from the Kamloops Outdoor Skating Association and the Kamloops Long Blades skating club got together to create a brand new skating service on Saturday (Jan. 30).More t...
Feb 01, 2021
S.D. 73, Interior Health working to limit uptick in school exposures
KAMLOOPS - There are at least eight different schools within School District 73 identified as having COVID-19 exposures. According to Interior Health, in the last two weeks Marion Schilling Elementary...
James Peters Feb 01, 2021
Two new cases reported in COVID-19 outbreak at Royal Inland Hospital
KAMLOOPS - The COVID-19 outbreak at Royal Inland Hospital has seen steady growth from Sunday (Jan. 31), with two additional cases reported Monday for a total of 81 positives. Interior Health Medical H...
Feb 01, 2021
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