Category Archives: Merritt’s Local News
KIJHL to separate into two tiers in 2026; Storm and Cents to play Tier 1
The Merritt Centennials will be taking a step up in competition two seasons from now.The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL) announced 11 of its teams, including the Storm and Centenni...
Mar 20, 2025 Photo Credit: KIJHL
Increased utility bills expected April 1.
It's no April Fool's Day joke for rate payers in the City of Merritt as their bi-annual residential utilities begin arriving in the mail starting April 1. The City of Merritt announced on their websit...
Mar 18, 2025 Civic Centre - City of Merritt
Snowfall warnings issued for Coquihalla and Trans Canada
Environment Canada has issued three weather warning for the highways near Merritt as a low pressure system passes through the southern Interior today (March 13). Snowfall warnings have been issued on ...
Mar 13, 2025
"We learned valuable lessons": McLeod on Centennials playoff run ending
The Merritt Centennials inaugural season in the KIJHL is over. The first year franchise playoff run came to an end on Friday night after the Revelstoke Grizzlies scored three times in the third period...
Mar 09, 2025 Cents celebrate their overtime winner against Revelstoke. (Carly Isaac contributed).
Merritt library receives funding for new roof
The Merritt Library will soon be getting a new roof for their facility thanks in part to the TNRD. At its recent meeting on Thursday, it was announced that $90,000 would be split 50/50 between Elector...
Mar 09, 2025 Merritt Library | TNRD
Merritt ER to close for ninth time in 2025; second time this weekend
Make it nine emergency room closures at the Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt this year, and the second of this weekend. Interior Health says the emergency department in Merritt will once again be clo...
Mar 08, 2025 CFJC Today File Photo
Snowfall warning issued on Coquihalla south of Merritt; winter storm warning on Trans-Canada
Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for the Hope to Merritt section of the Coquihalla, with between 15 and 20 cm of snow expected to fall between Sunday and Monday morning. "A persistent ...
Mar 08, 2025 CFJC Today File Photo
Royal Inland Hospital Foundation's 11th annual Radiothon kicks off on B-100 Kamloops
Radio waves in Kamloops will be taken over by a good cause on Thursday (March 6), for the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation's 11th annual Radiothon. Each year, the Radiothon raises thousands of dollars...
Mar 06, 2025 Image Credit: Kent Simmonds / CFJC Today
RCMP looking into Merritt suspicious death Monday; appeal to public for tips
RCMP are investigating a suspicious death in Merritt. In a news release distributed Tuesday (Mar. 4), emergency responders were called to a home on Monday to find a man in medical distress. They provi...
Mar 05, 2025 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Yet another temporary closure coming to Merritt emergency room Sunday
There will be another emergency room closure at the Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt Sunday (March 2) night - the sixth closure of 2025. Interior Health says the facility will be unavailable from 6:0...
Mar 02, 2025 CFJC Today File Photo
