Category Archives: Merritt’s Local News
Be safe not sorry on roads during flood season warns advocacy group
A road safety advocacy group is warning motorists of the dangers of flooding on the highways. This in the wake of the recent flood watch alert issued for the Nicola and Coldwater Rivers as well as Spi...
Feb 23, 2025 Stock photo (ID 124708330 © Solaris Images Inc | Dreamstime.com)
TNRD Board raises its 2025 pay by 2.6 per cent
Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) Directors have voted to give themselves a 2.6 per cent pay increase retroactive to January 1 of this year. Board Chair Barbara Roden made that motion during Th...
Feb 23, 2025 CFJC Today File Photo
ER Closed at Nicola Valley Hospital for Second Time in 2025
Interior Health advises Merritt and area residents that for the second time in 2025 the emergency department has been closed at are advised of temporary changes to emergency department at the Nicola V...
Feb 23, 2025 Nicola Valley Hospital
Prescribed burn on Nooaitch Indian Band land near Merritt scheduled for March
Smoke may be visible in the Lower Nicola starting next month. The BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) says it will support the Nooaitch Indian Band in carrying out a 29-hectare prescribed burn on Nooaitch Indi...
Feb 21, 2025 File photo
Weather change, ice jam hazard prompt province to issue flood watch for Merritt-area rivers
A drastic change in weather for the B.C. Interior has led the province to issue a flood watch for rivers in the Merritt area. The B.C. River Forecast Centre (BCRFC) says the flood watch is in place fo...
Feb 20, 2025 File Photo
Nearly $26 million federal rebuilding dollars for Lytton committed to new community hub
Nearly one-third of the $77 million the federal government committed to the Village of Lytton three years ago will go toward a new community hub. In a news release issued Wednesday (Feb. 19), the fede...
Feb 20, 2025 File photo (Image credit: CFJC Today).
Man wanted on Merritt warrant arrested in Kamloops
A man wanted on a warrant in Merritt has been arrested after a traffic stop in Kamloops last weekend and led to the seizure of several weapons and other items. In a news release on Wednesday, Kamloops...
Feb 20, 2025 Cruiser | Merritt RCMP
Interior Health CEO touts 'tremendous' recruitment efforts but says more needed to avoid temporary ER closures
Interior Health says it's seeing its staff vacancy rates come down as it works to bolster staffing to avoid temporary emergency room closures at hospitals. Speaking at the Feb. 12 meeting of the Inter...
Feb 18, 2025 Image Credit: Interior Health
Merritt community marches for MMIGW2S awareness
Community members in the Nicola Valley gathered Friday afternoon (Feb. 14) for a march to honour and acknowledge missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirited people. Starting at Rota...
Feb 16, 2025 Image Credit: Kent Simmonds / CFJC Today
Status quo for policing services in city of Merritt
There will be no changes to policing services for the City of Merritt. At Tuesday's monthly City Council meeting, councilors voted 5-2 in maintaining the status quo, which allows the city to budget fo...
Feb 13, 2025
