Rockslide has Kamloops area highway down to single-lane traffic

KAMLOOPS –  A rockslide blocked one lane on Highway 5A near Kamloops yesterday afternoon.

Its still single-lane alternating traffic on Highway 5A south of Kamloops this morning, Nov. 1, Drive B.C. says. No word when the route will fully reopen.

Crews are at work today clearing the debris from the rockslide that hit the highway about 10 kilometres yesterday afternoon at around 1 p.m.

Paula Pick sent a photo of the slide and says she thinks she was the first person on the scene.


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Shelby Thevenot

Shelby has lived across Canada. She grew up near Winnipeg, Manitoba then obtained her B.F.A in Multidisciplinary Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. In 2014 she moved to Montreal, Quebec to study French and thrived in the Visual Journalism Graduate Diploma program at Concordia University. Now she works at iNFO News where she strives to get the stories that matter to the Okanagan Valley community.

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