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Price-gougers, essential good resellers in B.C now faced with $2,000 fines during COVID-19 pandemic
VICTORIA - Police in B.C now have the ability to issue $2,000 violation tickets for anyone caught price gouging, or reselling medical supplies and essential goods during the COVID-19 pandemic. A BC Go...
Apr 19, 2020 (Image Credit: Government of BC)
Kamloops meal group working with IHA to assist city's homeless with potential virus symptoms
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health will be working with a group of local volunteers today to ensure the city's homeless population with potential COVID-19 symptoms can get medical help, or form an isolation p...
Apr 19, 2020 (Image Credit: Courtesy, Glenn Hilke)
Kamloops pulls off record breaking Rotary spring food drive
KAMLOOPS - Local residents stepped up to the plate for the Kamloops Food Bank today (Apr. 18), making the Rotary spring food drive a record event. Kamloops Food Bank executive director Bernadette Sira...
Apr 18, 2020 (Image Credit: Courtesy of Kamloops Food Bank / Peter Olsen Photography)
Week in Review — Week of April 13, 2020
Welcome to Week in Review. This week, a shooting on Kamloops' North Shore sends a man to hospital.Advisories ignored as some long weekend travellers visit the Shuswap. And how Sun Peaks Resort is copi...
Apr 18, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
29 new COVID-19 cases identified in B.C, as health officials address likelihood of summer event cancellations
VICTORIA - With 29 new cases reported today (Apr. 18) by provincial health officials, there is now a total of 1,647 COVID-19 cases in B.C. In today's update, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry...
Apr 18, 2020 (Image Credit: Government of B.C)
Workers in Interior Health region warned of potential virus exposure from Alberta work camp
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health is warning certain residents of potential COVID-19 exposure, after multiple people working at an Alberta-based oil sands project site tested positive. In a release from the ...
Apr 18, 2020 (Image Credit: Interior Health Authority)
Kamloops Fire Rescue quickly knocks down afternoon house fire
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue made short work of an afternoon house fire yesterday on the city's North Shore. Platoon Captain Darryl Cooper says around 4:30 p.m, KFR crews were called to a home on B...
Apr 18, 2020 Crews responded to the Belmont Crescent home shortly after 4:30 p.m Friday (Image Credit: Nathan Ritchie)
ROTHENBURGER: Bending the curve, looking forward to the altered normal
WE ARE BENDING THE CURVE, Dr. Bonnie Henry told us on Friday.I'm not sure about the subtle difference between that and flattening or planking, but she did also use the word "flattening" at one point. ...
Apr 18, 2020 (Image Credit: Government of B.C)
Even with government supports, COVID-19 pandemic a shock to the system for downtown Kamloops businesses
KAMLOOPS - It was almost one month ago to the day that it became apparent to Emily Sedgwick that she wouldn't be able to launch her new store, Crooked Crown, as planned."It was a little bit of a rough...
Apr 17, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops preparing early for high water, due to high snowpack and COVID-19 concerns
KAMLOOPS - We're still over a month away from river levels hitting their peak in the Thompson Valley. However, on Tuesday, Kamloops City Council heard about near-record snowpack levels, which could sp...
Apr 16, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
