Author Archives: Dave Barry

RCMP seek public assistance to locate missing Kamloops man
KAMLOOPS - RCMP say a 64-year-old man reported missing February 23, has been located.
Dave Barry Feb 24, 2022

'Barbarian act:' World leaders condemn Russia on Ukraine
TOKYO (AP) - As Russian troops attacked Ukraine, world leaders reacted Thursday with outrage - one called it "an unjustified barbarian act" - and vowed to both tighten sanctions and hold the Kremlin a...
Dave Barry Feb 23, 2022

Kamloops MLAs feel region left out of B.C.'s record-breaking capital spending plan
KAMLOOPS - From postponed renovations to the emergency room at Royal Inland Hospital to little progress on the cancer clinic promised for Kamloops, MLAs Todd Stone and Peter Milobar are disappointed p...
Dave Barry Feb 23, 2022

Independent Investigations Office looking into RCMP arrest in Salmon Arm
SALMON ARM - RCMP say B.C.'s police watchdog is investigating police actions after a woman was injured while being arrested in Salmon Arm earlier this month. A statement from the Mounties says officer...
Dave Barry Feb 22, 2022

Challenges of climate change focus of B.C. government's budget, says finance minister
VICTORIA - B.C. Finance Minister Selina Robinson says making sure communities have the resources they need to deal with the effects of climate change will be a focal point of her budget when it is rel...
Dave Barry Feb 21, 2022

Police lay hundreds of charges in Ottawa blockades as city begins clean-up process
OTTAWA - Silence and calm reigned on the streets of Ottawa for the first time in more than three weeks on Sunday as police continued their efforts to put a final end to anti-government demonstrations ...
Dave Barry Feb 21, 2022

Steve Fonyo, who lost leg to cancer and ran across Canada to raise funds, dead at 56
Steve Fonyo, who lost his leg to cancer as a child and ran a marathon across Canada to raise millions for cancer research, has died. He was 56. Fonyo's niece Melody Kruppa says Fonyo had what appeared...
Dave Barry Feb 21, 2022

B.C. prepares to remove some housing approval powers from local governments: minister
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is considering taking away some of the permit powers municipal governments have to approve housing construction in an effort to get more homes built in the p...
Dave Barry Feb 21, 2022

Rays of hope emerge in rebuild of Lytton, B.C., months after wildfire destruction
Denise O'Connor is back in Lytton, B.C., living in the home where she spent her childhood years. But it's not where she was living last summer when a wildfire swept through the Fraser Canyon village a...
Dave Barry Feb 18, 2022

After four years, the Shtuka family continues to search for answers to son Ryan's disappearance
KAMLOOPS - Four years ago Thursday (Feb. 17), Ryan Shutka disappeared from Sun Peaks Resort. There have been countless hours spent searching for the young man who came to that community from Beaumont,...
Dave Barry Feb 17, 2022

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