Category Archives: Merritt’s Local News

The Upper Nicola Band has confirmed two positive cases of COVID-19 among its community. In a letter posted to Upper Nicola's Facebook Page written by Chief Harvey McLeod and Collette Sunday, EOC Direc...

The hot topic of snow removal was front and centre at the latest meeting of Merritt City Council. The discussion spurred by a historic snowfall on December 21, was led by CAO Sean Smith and Public Wor...

In December, a presentation was made to the TNRD Board of Directors seeking support in banning commercial truck traffic from highway 5a, between Merritt and Kamloops. "Highway 5A is ill-equipped to ha...

(Image Credit: CFJC Today) KAMLOOPS - Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone sent a shockwave through his B.C. Liberal party Thursday (Jan. 14), bowing out of consideration for the party's leadership....

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 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) response in Brit...

For the eighth year running, Interior Savings is again offering awards of $1000 to 1,000 students through its Million Dollar Bursary Program. Yet, so far, they have only received about 500 application...

Merritt's own Roger Sloan is back on Tour this weekend at the Sony Open in Hawaii. It will be Sloan's first appearance in 2021 and first tournament in over a month following a missed cut in early Dece...

KAMLOOPS - Interior Health (IH) has added a fifth drug alert for tainted drugs in Kamloops. The alert comes after four similar messages were fanned out Friday (Jan. 8). In the fifth alert distributed ...

Mayor Linda Brown put forward a motion to City Council this week to return their cost of living raises for 2021. "This is one that I'm looking at because we've had a number of decreasing tax revenues ...

This week School District 58 Nicola-Similkameen has confirmed two positive cases of COVID-19 at Merritt Secondary School. The exposures were stated to have occurred last week on January 6 and 7. The n...