Category Archives: Merritt’s Local News
Sun Life advisors band together to provide Christmas trees to those in need
Sun Life advisors from around the Interior of B.C., have coming together to help Merritt families in need following the devastating flood of November 15th. The advisors donated money to buy 150 local ...
Dec 10, 2021
Merritt extending bill payments and grant applications
The City of Merritt is extending the deadline to pay utility bills, while also pushing back the grant-in-aid process and business license renewals. Merritt residents now have until December 31st to pa...
Dec 10, 2021 Merritt Nov. 28 (credit - Michael Reeve/Q101)
Merritt offering bus service to and from Kamloops and Kelowna
The City of Merritt is now offering a bus service for residents who are not yet able to live in their homes. Merrittonians who are in Kamloops or Kelowna and routinely traveling back to Merritt to wor...
Dec 10, 2021
BC Care Providers Association suffering from staffing crisis, desperate for nurses
KAMLOOPS - The BC Care Providers Association is calling its staffing shortage a crisis. Care Providers CEO, Terry Lake, says it's a province-wide problem, but the Interior region is suffering the most...
Dec 10, 2021 Image Credit: CFJC Today
BC reports 341 new COVID-19 cases Thursday, nine new virus-related deaths
VICTORIA - The BC Government says the numbers are provisional, but the province recorded 341 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, and nine new deaths. In an emailed update today (Dec. 9), the M...
Dec 10, 2021
Over 200 lives lost in October to illicit drugs
An increasingly toxic and volatile illicit drug supply has claimed at least 201 lives in October and 1,782 lives in the first 10 months of 2021, according to the latest preliminary data released by th...
Dec 09, 2021
Lower Nicola Band School providing bag lunches for flood victims
Today (Thursday, Dec. 9), the Lower Nicola Band School will be providing 500 bag lunches to the community and those in need after the devastating flood on November 15. The free bagged lunches will be ...
Dec 09, 2021
Merritt lifts boil water advisory
The City of Merritt was able to finally lift the boil water advisory for the town Wednesday evening. "Interior Health confirmed today (Wednesday December 8th) that the drinking water was of sufficient...
Dec 09, 2021
Merritt's LHA records two new COVID-19 cases
The BC Centre for Disease Control has released the latest local health area (LHA) COVID-19 figures, covering the week of November 28 - December 4. The Merritt LHA recorded two new cases of the virus, ...
Dec 09, 2021 credit - BC CDC
Salvation Army urgently pleading for Christmas hamper sponsors for Merritt families
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Salvation Army is making another urgent plea to residents to donate gifts for children 17 and under, and gift cards to purchase food. Following the Coldwater River flood in mid...
Dec 09, 2021 Image Credit: Adam Donnelly / CFJC Today
