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Blazers pick 11 players at 2024 WHL Prospects Draft
The Kamloops Blazers added 11 prospects - five forwards, five defenseman and one goalie - in the 2024 WHL Prospects Draft. The Blazers took four players each from Alberta and Manitoba and three from B...
May 09, 2024
Man facing dozen new charges after string of 'violent' incidents in Merritt
Merritt RCMP say a 35-year-old man - who is well known to them - is facing a dozen new charges after a string of violent incidents on Wednesday. Police say they responded to eight separate incidents i...
May 09, 2024 An RCMP cruiser. (Photo via Merritt RCMP)
Kamloops, TNRD to test Voyent Alert systems on May 10
The City of Kamloops and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District will both be issuing test alerts on Voyent Alert this Friday, May 10. The TNRD will be sending its alert out around 10:30 a.m., with the ...
May 09, 2024 A Voyent Alert test alert in Kamloops. (Photo via Victor Kaisar)
B.C. cyber attack: Minister says police probing bid to breach government systems
Police are involved in the investigation into a sophisticated attempt to breach protected British Columbia government information systems, Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said Thursday. But Farnworth...
May 09, 2024 B.C. Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth. (Photo via Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press)
Merritt mayor to keep asking Province for reimbursement after ER shutdowns
The Mayor of Merritt says he still intends to ask the Province for $90,000 to compensate for closures at the Nicola Valley Hospital's emergency room last year. Mike Goetz says it was a little prematur...
May 09, 2024 Photo via Interior Health
Blazers trade goaltender Jesse Sanche to Everett
The Kamloops Blazers have traded goaltender Jesse Sanche to the Everett Silvertips for 18 year-old defenceman Nico Tsakumis and a second round pick in the 2026 WHL Prospects Draft. The trade will free...
May 09, 2024 Jesse Sanche in action against the Everett Silvertips on Jan. 12, 2024. (Photo via Allen Douglas)
B.C. urges water conservation as snowpack levels continue to remain low into May
The B.C. Government is urging people to conserve water as the provincial snowpack across the province continues to remain low as the summer months approach. New data from the BC River Forecast Centre ...
May 09, 2024 A map at the various snowpacks across B.C. as of May 1, 2024. (Photo via BC River Forecast Centre)
B.C. rivers recede as Province faces prospect of 'unfamiliar territory' for drought
Parts of British Columbia will likely enter "unfamiliar territory" with drought if they see another hot, dry summer, says the head of the province's River Forecast Centre. Dave Campbell says persisten...
May 09, 2024 Side-by-side handout images, shown in infrared, taken by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellite show the Quesnel River as it meets the Fraser River in Quesnel, B.C., in May 2023, left, compared with May 2024.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, European Union, Canadian Space Agency *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Risk of wildfire in Western Canada remains high despite slower start to season
The start to wildfire season has been far less dramatic than it was last year but the risk of hot, dry weather and severe fires remains high, officials warned Thursday. That risk is driving earlier pl...
May 09, 2024 Burned vehicles are seen at a property destroyed by the Bush Creek East wildfire, in Scotch Creek on Sept. 6, 2023. (Photo via Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)
Premier says B.C. government networks hit by 'sophisticated cybersecurity incidents'
British Columbia Premier David Eby said late Wednesday that the province had identified "sophisticated cybersecurity incidents" involving government networks. A government source later said the incide...
May 08, 2024 B.C. Premier David Eby (Photo via BC Government)
