Author Archives: Dave Barry
RCMP called to weapons complaint in Valleyview
KAMLOOPS - A device resembling a homemade firework caused a police presence in Valleyview.RCMP say officers were called to a motel on the 1800-block of the East Trans Canada Highway at around 11:20 a....
Oct 21, 2021
Rising inflation rates not surprising with record-low interest rates: Kamloops mortgage broker
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops mortgage broker says record-low interest rates that many people have been taking advantage of in the last year are contributing to the rising inflation rates. Inflation is at the...
Oct 20, 2021
Kamloops Hospice unveils new 'Outlook for Peace' building
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Hospice Association has opened the doors to its new 'Outlook for Peace' building.The idea came from a Kamloops couple, Jeff and Joan Glaicar, who spent a lot of time at hospice whi...
Oct 20, 2021
B.C. forests minister introduces bill to overhaul forest practices
VICTORIA - British Columbia's forests minister has introduced a bill to amend the Forest and Range Practices Act in what she says will "reshape" forest management in the province. Katrine Conroy told ...
Oct 20, 2021
B.C. reports 696 new COVID-19 cases; hospitalizations and active cases drop
VICTORIA - B.C. reported 696 new cases of COVID-19 for Wednesday (Oct. 20), with 118 of them in Interior Health.The active COVID-19 case count decreased to 4,888 in B.C. (down by 25), although the act...
Oct 20, 2021
Health authority takes over Vancouver care home, site of deadly COVID-19 outbreak
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority is taking over operations of a Vancouver care home where dozens of residents died during a COVID-19 outbreak that began last November and took months...
Oct 20, 2021
Kamloops man identified as industrial accident victim
KAMLOOPS - The man killed in a workplace accident last week at a business along Mission Flats Road, has been identified through a gofundme post. The post identifies 34 year old Wade Lieuwen of Kamloop...
Oct 20, 2021
Trudeau to visit Tk'emlúps te Secwepemc Nation in Kamloops, B.C.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to visit Kamloops, B.C., today, where the Tk'emlps te Secwepemc Nation announced it had found what are believed to be some 200 unmarked grav...
Oct 18, 2021
BC SPCA says education and neutering can address Kamloops' cat overpopulation problem
KAMLOOPS - Last year, 78 per cent of the BC SPCA's total feline intake came from the City of Kamloops.That's according to a delegation request sent to Kamloops Council from the BC SPCA Kamloops and Di...
Oct 17, 2021
Interior Health reaches 250 COVID-19 deaths; new restrictions introduced for Northern Health
VICTORIA - With five more COVID-19 deaths recorded Thursday (Oct. 14), Interior Health has reached a grim threshold.According to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, there have been 250 COVID-19 death...
Oct 14, 2021
