Tag Archives: Weather
Time for travellers on B.C. highways to trade all-seasons for winter tires
KAMLOOPS - Call it fall, autumn, spooky season, hockey season, or pumpkin spice latte time - it all means the weather is getting cooler and folks who drive B.C.'s highways should be making plans to ge...
Oct 04, 2021
Kamloops council puts the kibosh on outdoor rink at Riverside Park
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops is scaling down a planned revitalization project for Riverside Park.The city application for grant funding to the tune of $4.3 million was not successful. As a result, ...
Sep 29, 2021
Nanaimo experiences hottest summer on record
NANAIMO - Paced by several suffocating heatwaves and limited rain, summer 2021 was one for the record books.Environment Canada's meteorological cycle considers June, July and August the summer season ...
Sep 09, 2021
Scoopz Ice Cream starts 'Great Ice Cream Sell-off' in support of The Mustard Seed Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The flowers are fading. Leaves are turning colour.Gone are the hot, sunny days of summer. Here: the cool, crisp mornings of September. Are you having a hard time believing that fact? So is ...
Sep 01, 2021
United for BC Wildfire Recovery Fund aims to help those affected by 2021 wildfires
KAMLOOPS - While we're still in the midst of the 2021 wildfire season, it's sure to go down as one of the worst BC has ever experienced. With hundreds of properties lost, and the total cost of those l...
Aug 26, 2021
BC company provides Wildland Firefighter Training for men facing barriers to career success
KAMLOOPS - On a smoky Thursday near Logan Lake, this group of men are out learning how to run and maintain a brush saw. They're here as part of an eight-week Wildland Firefighting and Silviculture Pro...
Aug 12, 2021
Family rescued from Snake Island after boat destroyed in choppy waters
NANAIMO - A family of three was saved from a small, rocky island near Nanaimo after their boat was destroyed. The family with a young two-and-a-half-year-old daughter were stranded on Snake Island aft...
Aug 12, 2021
Kamloops residents revel in fresh, smoke-free air (for now)
KAMLOOPS - For weeks, folks have been hoping for a glimpse of this - fluffy white clouds drifting lazily across the blue sky. "I'm just happy that it's clear skies," one person at Pioneer Park said wi...
Aug 11, 2021
Nanaimo's drought officially continues despite rain during August long weekend
NANAIMO - Many areas of Nanaimo felt its first drop of rain in months over the August long weekend, but none fell where it mattered most. The Environment Canada sensor stationed at Nanaimo Airport rec...
Aug 03, 2021
Concerned Kamloops residents rally around the climate crisis
KAMLOOPS - As British Columbia prepares for another heatwave, several dozen concerned citizens took to the streets of Kamloops Thursday morning to call attention to the climate crisis. The activists h...
Jul 29, 2021
