News Items tag as: Ashcroft News

Couple connect with Aussies who helped save their cabin during Elephant Hill wildfire
May 31, 2018 - 6:30 PM

When last year’s wildfires roared through the Ashcroft area near Kamloops, a couple from Langley thought their summer cabin approximately 100 kilometres outside the small town would be safe.
CP Holiday Train set to roll through Interior next week
December 07, 2017 - 5:00 PM

KAMLOOPS - It's that time of year again — the CP Holiday Train is set to roll through the Shuswap and South Thompson this month.
ER at Ashcroft hospital closed overnight
November 03, 2017 - 11:06 AM

ASHCROFT – The emergency room at the Ashcroft Hospital and Health Centre will be closed overnight.
All evacuation alerts, orders related to Elephant Hill fire rescinded
September 20, 2017 - 9:14 AM

Some massive progress was made on the Elephant Hill wildfire over the past few weeks, and now impacted residents in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District can breathe a sigh of relief.
Angler convicted for poaching on closed Thompson River
September 12, 2017 - 11:17 AM

KAMLOOPS - A man has been convicted of poaching after he was caught by a conservation patrol on the Thompson River last year.
Some Elephant Hill wildfire evacuees returning home today
August 15, 2017 - 12:28 PM

KAMLOOPS - Residents in the Clinton and Cache Creek areas evacuated by the Elephant Hill wildfire will be allowed home today as evacuation orders are lifted.
How people in Kamloops are trying to make life a little easier for wildfire evacuees
July 12, 2017 - 11:48 AM

KAMLOOPS - The organizers of a local comedy festival, a grocery store, a Lower Mainland griller and the people behind Kamloops Music in the Park have one thing in common – helping out the wildfire evacuees in the city.
iN PHOTOS: B.C. wildfire rips through Ashcroft mobile home park
July 11, 2017 - 8:00 PM

CACHE CREEK – The Ashcroft Reserve wildfire has left total destruction behind in the Boston Flats Community Estates trailer park.
Kamloops businesses stepping up to help wildfire evacuees
July 10, 2017 - 5:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - The business community in Kamloops is rallying around evacuees displaced from the wildfires burning around B.C.
UPDATE: Evacuation orders for Cache Creek as Ashcroft wildfire approaches
July 07, 2017 - 4:25 PM

ASHCROFT - A rapidly developing 700-hectare wildfire is burning about two kilometres from the village of Ashcroft, west of Kamloops and everyone in Cache Creek is under evacuation order.
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MANN: Just like the smokey skies, friendships come and go
OPINION Right now it looks like November outside — it’s cold and gray out, and every park I drive past is completely empty of children. It reminds me of this old My Little Pony movie where a giant black cloud blo