Category Archives: Merritt’s Local News

Dr. Bonnie Henry has provided the latest COVID-19 figures in BC. (Previous numbers in brackets) New Cases - 445 Total Cases - 72,750 (72,305) Active Cases - 4,347 (4,317) Patients in Hospital - 226 (2...

Highway 5A between Merritt and Kamloops is set to receive some upgrades as the BC Government has announced several projects receiving funding to address the effects of climate change. The Thompson are...

The City of Merritt is set to apply for grant funding to help complete a masterplan around upgrades to the City's wastewater treatment plant. "The City's Wastewater Treatment Plant is an Activated Slu...

The Nicola Valley Institute of Technology has elected a new chair of the board of governors. "Sashia Leung is a proud Wet'suwet'en, Chinese woman from the Witset First Nation. She was initially appoin...

School District 58 Nicola-Similkameen is informing parents of a positive case of COVID-19 among the community at Merritt Central Elementary. The exposure is stated to have occurred on February 8 and 9...

Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.'s provincial health officer, and Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, have issued the following joint statement regarding updates on the COVID-19 response in British Columbia: "Today...

As the five-year anniversary of the province's illicit drug toxicity public health emergency approaches, the BC Coroners Service reports 2020 was B.C.'s worst year yet in terms of number of lives lost...

The BC RCMP has provided a final update into the deadly collision along the Coquihalla Wednesday morning. "Fraser Valley Traffic Services (FVTS) confirmed this morning that this incident began with a ...

The City of Merritt is taking a pair of resolutions to this years Southern Interior Local Government Association (SILGA) convention in the hopes of gaining support from other municipalities in the reg...

Early Wednesday morning (Feb 10) at around 9:40 am, BC RCMP Traffic Services were called to a multi-vehicle collision along the Coquihalla just North of Hope. Early reports from the scene had one pers...