Category Archives: Merritt’s Local News
Merritt ER to close for fifth time in 2025
Make it five emergency room closures at the Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt this year. Interior Health says the Merritt ER will be closed for 13 hours starting at 6:00 p.m. Saturday (March 1), with ...
Mar 01, 2025 CFJC Today File Photo
Merritt mayor wants more transparency from Interior Health as ER closures debated during Question Period
The mayor of Merritt wants Interior Health (IH) to be more transparent and proactive as the community of around 8,000 people has been forced to navigate another series of emergency room closures. The ...
Feb 27, 2025 CFJC Today File Photo
Investigation continues as "Walk for Miguel Mack" happens on Saturday
As the second anniversary of the disappearance of Miguel Mack fast approaches the B.C. RCMP Southeast District Major Crime Unit wants to assure the community that they are continuing to investigate th...
Feb 27, 2025 (Photo Courtesy Merritt RCMP)
BCWS, Upper Nicola Band plan controlled burns in Quilchena area
The mild temperatures and melting snow have the B.C. Wildfire Service (BCWS) planning fuel management burns in the B.C. Interior. The latest missive from BCWS describes a planned 30-hectare burn in co...
Feb 26, 2025 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
For third time this week, Nicola Valley Hospital ER closed overnight
Merritt and area residents are being advised for the third time in four days and the fourth time in 2025, that the emergency room at the Nicola Valley Hospital will be closed overnight beginning at 6 ...
Feb 26, 2025 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Flood watch over (for now) for Coldwater, Nicola river and Spius Creek
The flood watch issued by the River Forecast Centre last week is over. Last Thursday February 20, the BC River Forecast Centre issued a Flood Watch for the Coldwater and Nicola Rivers as well as Spius...
Feb 26, 2025 File Photo
Merritt Centennials garner prestigious divisional awards from KIJHL
Three members of the Merritt Centennials are the recipients of the Bill Ohlhausen Division Awards for Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year and the newly created General Manager of the year in the KIJ...
Feb 25, 2025 KIJHL Website
Merritt ER closed for second time in three days
Interior Health announced yet another emergency room closure for the Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt, the second in the past three days. The emergency room is closed Tuesday Feb. 25 from 6p.m. to 7 ...
Feb 25, 2025 Nicola Valley Hospital
Cents begin quest for KIJHL championship as playoff schedule is announced
Let the KIJHL playoffs begin! Your Merritt Centennials, who finished third in the Bill Ohlhausen Division of the KIJHL, will meet the second seed Revelstoke Grizzlies in the first round of the playoff...
Feb 24, 2025 Cents sniper Steven Foster had two goals on Saturday in Merritt's 6-5 loss in Golden. (File photo)
Downtown fire kills dogs, injures firefighter o Sunday afternoon in Merritt
Fire officials are continuing their investigation into a blaze that destroyed a residence in the 600 block area of Granite Ave. on Sunday afternoon. Merritt Fire Chief Dave Tomkinson told Q101 news th...
Feb 24, 2025 The remnants of the two-story house destroyed by fire Sunday. (Photo Roger White Q101.
