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Emergency service in Ashcroft only available on weekends
ASHCROFT - The emergency room in the Village of Ashcroft will only be open on weekends as the Interior Health Authority continues its employment search for doctors. The services sustained a series of cuts after the village’s second doctor quit, leaving it to reduced emergency hours throughout the week. Now the service is only available from...

UPDATE: Firefighters battle Kamloops trailer blaze
KAMLOOPS – Firefighters finished mopping up a fire at the Iron Mask Mobile Home Park with the help of a water tanker truck as two neighbourhood fire hydrants failed to work, according to the family whose trailer burned down 2:45 p.m. on June 1. “They could have saved our house,” Nicole Green says. Kamloops Fire...

Lulay shrugs off shoulder injuries as B.C. Lions open camp in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – Travis Lulay drops back to pass and launches a ball down field.

Kamloops housing market ‘surged’ during first part of 2015
KAMLOOPS – With more houses being built and home-buyers spending more the Kamloops housing market is off to a very good start in 2015. According to Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation single-unit housing starts in Kamloops 'surged' in the first three months of 2015. The report from the corporation shows every category of housing start...

Drunken U-turn leads to crash, injury
CHASE - One woman is in hospital and another is in police custody after a single vehicle crash on Shuswap Road East near Pritchard around 4 a.m., Monday, June 1. Chase RCMP Cpl. Mark Skotnicki says officers noticed two women in their early-20s standing on the road next to a pickup truck in the ditch....

Cool, wet weather to hit Kamloops
NEAR-RECORD HEAT EXPECTED BY WEEKEND KAMLOOPS - The warm weather we’ve been having is about to step aside to make room for cooler temperatures and rain, lots of rain, over the next few days. Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for all of the Okanagan Valley as well as the Shuswap, Nicola and...