Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
COVID-19 outbreak declared at Kelowna Calvary Chapel as Interior Health notifies public of potential exposure
KELOWNA - Interior Health has declared an outbreak of COVID-19 at a Kelowna church, and is advising those who attended at a certain time they may have been exposed. In a release, IH says anyone who at...
Dylana Kneeshaw Sep 26, 2020
Online and phone registration for BC voters ends Saturday
KAMLOOPS - A reminder that voter registration over the phone and online for the upcoming fall provincial election closes tonight (Sept. 26). Elections BC says voters can register to vote, or update th...
Dave Barry Sep 26, 2020
Kamloops man with incurable cancer running to raise funds and awareness
KAMLOOPS - Multiple Myeloma is an incurable type of cancer that occurs in plasma cells. Little is known about what causes this cancer, but there is no cure. This weekend, a Kamloops man who has Multip...
Sep 25, 2020
Kamloops family chooses online learning as safest route amid pandemic, enrollment climbing at KOOL
KAMLOOPS - Jennifer Lambert's daughters will soon start online learning. Cali and Brooklyn are offically enrolled in the Kamloops Open Online Learning, or KOOL. With COVID-19 in the community, Jennife...
Sep 25, 2020
Interior Health issues a drug alert for Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Health officials have discovered a dangerous drug that could be on city streets. As a result, Interior Health has issued a drug alert for Kamloops. A light yellow or beige granular substanc...
Sep 25, 2020
British Columbia's COVID-19 case count up by 98
KAMLOOPS - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in B.C. has risen by 98 today (Sept. 25). According to a release from Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Deputy Minister of Health Stephen...
Sep 25, 2020
Suspect arrested and charged in triple fatal hit and run
KAMLOOPS - Charges have been laid against a 31-year-old Kamloops man in connection with a fatal hit and run collision last November. In the early morning hours of November 3, 2019, RCMP responded to a...
Dylana Kneeshaw Sep 25, 2020
Possible COVID-19 exposure on Kamloops flight
KAMLOOPS - Passengers on a September 16 flight from Calgary to Kamloops may have been exposed to the COVID-19 virus.The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) has identified WestJet flight 3111 as a fl...
Sep 25, 2020
CP Cancels Holiday Train for 2020
KAMLOOPS - Another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. There will be no CP Rail Holiday train crossing the country this year. In a news release yesterday, CP said they will donate to local food banks, ...
Sep 25, 2020
Tourism operators calling for more provincial funding as bleak winter awaits some businesses
KAMLOOPS - Tourism operators like the Delta Hotel downtown have been hit hard this summer in the aftermath of COVID-19. After a temporary closure in March, they bounced back, but only up to 50 per cen...
Sep 24, 2020
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