Highlights

On Oct. 25, 2020, a silver pickup truck, which had been reportedly driving erratically on Highway 1 in Kamloops earlier that day, was eventually pulled over by Mounties on Highway 97 near White Road in Williams Lake, four hours away

The Valemount man's rental Ford pickup truck was reported abandoned 14 kilometres up the 1130 Forest Service Rd., off of Dunn Lake Road in East Blackpool, which is about 120 kilometres north of Kamloops

There have now been five deaths recorded at the Overlander Residential Care facility in Brocklehurst

Cat overpopulation is problematic due to the animals being neglected, unhealthy, at risk of disease, injured by wildlife or preying on other animals, such as birds

In Interior Health, there are 39 people in hospital, while in total, 252 people in the health region have died from the disease

The body of Adam Hibbert was found on Oct. 1 during a fire call on Mission Flats Road. At the time of his death, Hibbert was wanted on a warrant for the robbery as charges had been sworn that very day

The visit comes after the prime minister decided against visiting Tk’emlúps on Sept. 30 — the inaugural National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — despite being invited to do so, twice, by the band

TSB board chair Kathy Fox said the agency could not rule out 100 per cent from this investigation that a train may have played a part in causing the blaze

According to the Transportation Safety Board, the investigation was significant and found that a westbound Canadian Pacific coal train consisting of 157 cars, operated by CN, was the last train through Lytton prior to the first report of the fire. It was travelling 40 kilometres per hour and passed through the suspected fire origin area at 4:30 p.m., about 18 minutes before the fire was reported

The latest weekly report from the BC Centre for Disease Control, spanning from Oct. 3 to Oct. 9, shows 131 new cases in the Kamloops area. That was preceded by weekly case counts of 226, 219 and 158