Category Archives: Local News Now

A developer in Merritt wants to build a hotel and casino, and up to 450 housing units near the former rest stop property just off the Coquihalla Highway. Merritt mayor Linda Brown explains the five In...

Interior Health has appointed a full-time administrator to manage the day-to-day long-term care operations of The Florentine in Merritt. Matt Renfrew, who has managed the Overlander long term care hom...

Tourism Kamloops thinks hoteliers in the area will be ready to hit the ground running when people are finally able to travel freely. CEO Beverly DeSantis is encouraging people to book far in advance s...

The camping craze continues during COVID-19. The District of Logan Lake says it had more than 900 reservations for its municipal campground on the first day bookings came online. Mayor Robin Smith say...

A small wildfire has been reported in the Lac Du Bois grasslands. It's listed at 0.8 hectares in size, and is near Lac Du Bois Road and Wheeler Mountain Road. A small plume of smoke could be clearly s...

The BC Wildfire Service says at this time it is hard to predict whether the 2021 fire season will be quiet like 2019 and 2020 or challenging like 2017 and 2018. Fire Information Officer, Gagan Lidhran...

There were two new wildfires in the Kamloops area over the weekend, although neither are expected to grow any further. The first was discovered Friday south of Ashcroft, about two kilometres south of ...

The City of Kamloops will consider what kind of incentives it could offer for certain infill development. Councillor Kathy Sinclair says the city could increase its housing diversity, by increasing re...

Two Kamloops elementary schools are reporting potential COVID-19 exposures today. Interior Health says the exposure events at Dufferin Elementary and Westmount Elementary happened on March 10 and 12 r...

It's the 'Mother of all Raffles' at the Kamloops Food Bank and one lucky winner will be going home with as much as $100,000 in just under two months. Executive Director Bernadette Siracky says people ...