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Dean Evason named new Columbus Blue Jackets head coach
Dean Evason is back in the National Hockey League. The former Kamloops Blazers coach - and Junior Oilers centre - has been hired as the next head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets. The 59-year-old Ev...
Jul 22, 2024 Photo via Columbus Blue Jackets
TNRD, Cook's Ferry Band expand evacuation orders as Shetland Creek fire grows
The Thompson-Nicola Regional District and the Cook's Ferry Indian Band have expanded evacuation orders connected to the massive Shetland Creek wildfire. Monday morning, the TNRD ordered the evacuation...
Jul 22, 2024 The Shetland Creek fire burning. (Photo via Christine Walkem/Facebook)
More than two-dozen high temperature records set in B.C. on Sunday
Parts of B.C. continue to swelter under a heat wave that Environment Canada says broke or matched the daily high-temperature records in 25 communities on Sunday. The weather agency says Lytton reached...
Jul 22, 2024 View of the sunset on Saturday evening/via Howie Reimer
More daily heat records set in B.C. Saturday as heat warnings continue
Preliminary data from Environment Canada shows that 14 B.C. communities either set or tied daily temperature records for July 20. The weather agency says Lytton reached a high of 41.2 C on that day, b...
Jul 21, 2024
Merritt ER to close for fifth time in July; seventh this year
There will be another 26-hour closure of the emergency room in in Merritt this weekend because of a lack of doctors. Interior Health says the ER will be closed between 6 a.m. Sunday, July 21 and 8 a.m...
Jul 20, 2024 The Nicola Valley Hospital and health Centre in Merritt. (Photo via Google Maps)
B.C. hospitals pivot to paper amid CrowdStrike global technology outage
About 50,000 devices in British Columbia hospitals and health facilities were impacted by the CrowdStrike global technology outage, forcing staff to pivot to using paper to manage everything from lab ...
Jul 19, 2024
Kamloops mayor removed from TNRD board, Airport Society in latest round of sanctions
Kamloops City Councillors say Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson has been removed from the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) Board of Directors and the Kamloops Airport Authority Society, effective immed...
Jul 19, 2024 Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson at his council seat as Municipal Advisor Henry Braun delivers his report on May 7, 2024/via Brett Mineer
Shetland Creek fire near Spences Bridge more than doubles in size
The Shetland Creek fire north of Spences Bridge has more than doubled in size due to what the BC Wildfire Service describes as "significant overnight growth'' and more accurate mapping. The lighting-c...
Jul 19, 2024 The Shetland Creek wildfire seen from the air. (Photo via BC Wildfire Service)
Lack of doctors forces another 26 hour closure of Merritt ER
The emergency room at the Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt will be closed for 26 hours, starting at 6 a.m. Friday, July 19. Interior Health says the closure - the sixth this year and fourth this mont...
Jul 18, 2024 Photo showing the Merritt ER closed in October, 2023/via Mike Goetz
Blazers' Brunicke signs entry-level contract with Pittsburgh
Kamloops Blazers defenceman Harrison Brunicke has signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins, less than a month after he was drafted. The 18-year-old Brunicke was the first...
Jul 18, 2024 Harrison Brunicke signs his entry-level contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins. (Photo via Pittsburgh Penguins)
