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Lack of doctors leads to another ER closure in Merritt
The emergency room at the Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt will be closed for 25 hours this weekend because of a lack of doctors. Interior Health says the closure - the third this month and eleventh ...
Aug 23, 2024 Photo via Interior Health
High streamflow advisory issued for parts of B.C. as major storm system expected
The BC River Forecast Centre has issued high streamflow advisory for much of southern B.C. because of the major storm system that is expected this weekend. The advisory covers rivers in and around pla...
Aug 23, 2024 Areas of B.C. under a high streamflow advisory as of Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (Photo via BC River Forecast Centre)
North Shuswap rebuild slowly taking shape one year after Bush Creek East fire
One year on from Bush Creek East fire, the rebuild in the north Shuswap is slowly taking shape. Columbia Shuswap Regional District Director for the area, Jay Simpson, says of the 176 homes and cabins ...
Aug 23, 2024 Damage in Scotch Creek in the North Shuswap as seen on Aug. 19. 2023. (Photo via Jay Simpson)
Teamsters challenge minister's move to resume rail service as shutdown drags on
Rail workers pushed back hard Friday against the federal government's move to put them back on the job, with a new strike notice and a regulatory challenge making it unclear when freight traffic will ...
Aug 23, 2024 Locked-out Canadian National Railway workers stand at a picket line as locomotives are moved by management at CN Rail's Thornton Yard, in Surrey, on Aug. 22. (Photo via Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)
Shetland Creek fire near Spences Bridge no longer a wildfire of note
The Shetland Creek wildfire near Spences Bridge is no longer considered to be a wildfire of note. BC Wildfire Service Information Officer Paula Walbauer says it comes a few days after the lightning ca...
Aug 23, 2024 Burned out area of the Venables Valley due to the Shetland Creek wildfire/via Tricia Thorpe
B.C. crews move to 'mop up' stage on many wildfires, drought persists in the north
British Columbia's wildfire service says rain and cooler temperatures have helped crews turn the corner on a number of larger blazes, especially in the south. The latest bulletin from the service says...
Aug 23, 2024 Picture of the Hullcar Mountain fire burning near Enderby/via BC Wildfire Service
Kamloops Chamber pleased with federal intervention into railway shutdown
The head of the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce is pleased that the federal government has stepped in to get trains moving again after a lockout by Canada's two largest rail companies. But speaking on NL...
Aug 22, 2024 A CP Rail train passing Kamloops Lake/via Railpictures.ca
Special weather statement issued as forecast calls for heavy rain this weekend
Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for the City of Kamloops and areas west, as the forecast is calling for heavy rain going into this weekend. The weather agency says between 15...
Aug 22, 2024
B.C. ended fiscal year with $5B deficit, as wildfires, lower revenue bit into budget
British Columbia has ended the fiscal year with a deficit of about $5 billion, a figure boosted beyond the original budget forecast by wildfire expenses and what the government said was essential spen...
Aug 22, 2024
Work to add RFID tags to all Kamloops-area library material to be done by end 2024
The head of the Thompson-Nicola Regional Library says work to tag all books, CDs, and DVDs with a small RFID chip is expected to be done by the end of this year. Judy Moore says the initiative - which...
Aug 22, 2024 RFID tag affixed on a TNRL Library Book. (Photo via Victor Kaisar)
