Category Archives: Merritt’s Local News
Interior Health hosting school-based COVID-19 vaccine clinics throughout September
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health (IH), in partnership with school districts throughout the region, says it will provide at-school COVID-19 immunization clinics. All age-eligible students 12 and older, teach...
Sep 07, 2021 Credit: CFJC Today
Final order downgraded near July Mountain
An Evacuation Order issued on September 2, 2021 at 1400 hrs has been downgraded to an Evacuation Alert. The Alert remains in effect for 1 property in Electoral Area "N" addressed as: 5340 Coldwater Rd...
Sep 03, 2021
Mayor Brown makes three motions
Near the conclusion of the Special Council Meeting on August 31, Mayor Linda Brown moved three notices of motion. The first notice was regarding the location of cannabis retail locations within the Ci...
Sep 03, 2021 photo credit - City of Merritt
More properties downgraded to Evacuation Alert near July Mountain
An Evacuation Order has been partially downgraded to an Evacuation Alert by the Thompson-Nicola Regional District Emergency Operations Centre (EOC). The following 24 addressed properties outlined in o...
Sep 03, 2021
Province starts collecting fuel price data for Merritt, Williams Lake
MERRITT, B.C. - The British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) is starting a new data collection project for twelve cities in British Columbia (BC) - including Merritt and Williams Lake. The project...
Sep 03, 2021
Six more die of COVID-19 in Interior; 801 new cases found in B.C.
VICTORIA - It has been a tragic day on the COVID-19 front within Interior Health. In its daily update, the provincial health ministry is reporting six more deaths from the virus - all of them in IH. T...
Sep 03, 2021
Labour day and back to school means added police patrols
Members of the Merritt RCMP will be out in full force this Labour Day weekend looking for impaired drivers. "We are going to be looking for speeders, for people drinking and driving, smoking and drivi...
Sep 02, 2021
B.C. government applies for federal funding to assist those who lost property due to wildfires
KAMLOOPS - The B.C. government made its plea to the federal government for financial assistance to help those who lost their homes during the wildfire season. Emergency Management BC tells CFJC Today ...
Sep 02, 2021 Q101/CFJC File Photo
Merritt back to single-digit COVID-19 cases
The BC Centre for Disease Control has released their latest local health area COVID-19 data, covering the week of August 22 - 28, 2021. The Merritt area recorded eight new cases of the virus down from...
Sep 02, 2021 credit - BC CDC
TNRD gives all clear for nearly 1,000 properties near Merritt and Spences Bridge impacted by Lytton Creek fire
KAMLOOPS -Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) properties near Merritt and Spences Bridge are no longer threatened by the Lytton Creek wildfire. The TNRD rescinded its evacuation alert to all clea...
Sep 02, 2021
