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Week in Review — Week of September 21, 2020
Welcome to Week in Review. This week, a snap election has been called, as B.C residents head to the polls in October.A possible COVID-19 exposure at a Merritt pub.And digging up the past - as archaeol...
Sep 26, 2020
Tickets still available for VW Turtle River Race
KAMLOOPS - Hundreds of turtles are preparing for release along the South Thompson River tomorrow (Sept. 27), as part of the annual VW Turtle River Race. Donations gathered through the fundraising even...
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...
Sep 26, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: City Gardens housing project presents a Hobson’s Choice
TWENTY HERITAGE HOMES will be bulldozed if a major new downtown development goes ahead, which it probably will.The Kelson Group unveiled plans this week for a $140-million, 445-unit complex of residen...
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
City of Merritt hopes rain helps ease water restrictions
MERRITT, BC - On Monday, the City of Merritt asked residents to cease watering their lawns or washing their cars after the province declared level four drought conditions on the Coldwater River.The re...
Sep 24, 2020
Merritt's Coldwater Pub confident in cleanliness after COVID-19 exposure over the weekend
MERRITT, BC - The Coldwater Hotel is an institution in Merritt. It's been open for over 110 years and survived the last pandemic back in 1918. So when Krystyna Powell, restaurant manager found out the...
Sep 24, 2020
IHA notifies public of potential COVID-19 exposure at Coldwater Hotel pub
MERRITT - Interior Health is warning residents who visited a certain Merritt area pub last Saturday (Sept. 19) that they may have been exposed to COVID-19. IH states that anyone who was in the pub ins...
Sep 23, 2020
The end of patio season bring new challenges for Kamloops restaurants and pubs
KAMLOOPS - With an election looming in BC, and uncertainty still surrounding the return students to the province's schools, unease might be the best way to describe how we've entered our first fall se...
Sep 23, 2020
Virtual Raise-A-Reader Day aims to raise funds for literacy programs
KAMLOOPS - Today (Sep. 23) was Raise-A-Reader day. But, unlike previous years, volunteers were not going around town gathering donations. Literacy in Kamloops Outreach Coordinator Fiona Clare says it ...
Sep 23, 2020
