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Kamloops pilot shows extent of wildfire damage to surrounding areas
A Kamloops pilot got a front seat look at the "blight on the landscape" where massive wildfires have burned, and has shared that with the greater public. Dale Maher flew out of the Kamloops Airport la...
Aug 27, 2021 An aerial view of Monte Lake and part of Westwold around August 21, 2021. (Photo by Dale Maher)
UPDATE: Well-known lacrosse coach and former Blazers bus driver killed in motorcycle crash
UPDATE: 11:30 a.m. The Kamloops man killed in a motorcycle accident near Paul Lake on Wednesday has been identified as well-known lacrosse coach Justin Bosher. Bosher had been a head coach of the Thom...
Aug 26, 2021 Justin Bosher (middle) between his two sons. (Photo submitted)
Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to be rerouted around Coldwater Indian Band
The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will not go through the Coldwater Indian Band, south of Merritt, as rerouting has now been approved by the Canada Energy Regulator. The CER, formerly called the N...
Aug 25, 2021
Police stop arson suspect and suspicious vehicle with 'break-in tools' in evacuated communities
RCMP say officers doing patrols have stopped suspicious people in the past week in evacuation zones, in Lytton and near Merritt. Spokesperson Dawn Roberts told NL News the first incident happened last...
Aug 24, 2021
Tobiano, Savona, Loon Lake no longer on evacuation alert
Hundreds of rural properties west of Kamloops were taken off of evacuation alert Monday night. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District downgraded six different evacuation alerts to all clear, affecting ...
Aug 24, 2021
One person dies from COVID-19 at Nicola Meadows long-term care home in Merritt
Interior Health now says there has been one death from COVID-19 at Nicola Meadows in Merritt, where an outbreak of the virus was declared last week. Further details on the death are not clear. There h...
Aug 23, 2021
Loved ones of Merritt care homes describe 'chaos' when residents were evacuated to Lower Mainland
Loved ones of care home residents in Merritt say it was "chaos" when those homes had to be evacuated last Monday. One is Ellen Miller, who says her 87-year-old mother, with arthritis, and 93-year-old ...
Aug 23, 2021
Masks being mandated, gathering sizes being limited again across Interior, including Kamloops
With COVID-19 cases rising across Interior Health, the province is making masks mandatory across the region, limiting gathering sizes indoors and outdoors. Outdoor gatherings are limited to 50 people,...
Aug 20, 2021
TNRD takes more than 650 homes off of evacuation order west and north of Merritt
People in Lower Nicola west of Merritt and properties along Highway 97C are being told they can go home this afternoon, after being evacuated five days ago. The order is being downgraded to an alert f...
Aug 20, 2021
This year now third-worst wildfire season on record in B.C. for amount of land burned
This catastrophic wildfire season in B.C. has now become the third-worst on record, when it comes to the amount of land affected. As of 7 p.m. on Thursday night, more than 858,000 hectares of land has...
Aug 20, 2021 The Lytton Creek wildfire in the Village of Lytton on the afternoon it broke out, on June 30, 2021. (Photo submitted)
