Author Archives: James Peters

Kamloops RCMP investigating mischief and attempted break-in downtown
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP are searching for a suspect after a downtown business was damaged early Tuesday (Feb. 8) morning.Police say security cameras on the 100-block of Victoria Street captured video...
James Peters Feb 09, 2022

Alleged Salmon Arm sex offender found and arrested in Ontario
SALMON ARM, B.C. - Salmon Arm RCMP announced that a man who was recently charged for sexual interference and sexual assault on a minor was arrested.Police received confirmation from its Ontario partne...
James Peters Feb 09, 2022

B.C., Kamloops set new overdose death records in 2021
KAMLOOPS - A new report from the B.C. Coroners Service shows the province's illicit drug overdose crisis reaching an unprecedented height.B.C. set records in each of the last two months of 2021 for th...
James Peters Feb 09, 2022

Kamloops Fire Rescue investigating three recent vacant building fires as suspicious
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops fire crews have put out three fires at three different vacant buildings within a week. Two of those fires took place over this weekend.Kamloops Fire Rescue (KFR) Fire Chief Steve R...
James Peters Feb 07, 2022

Do you support the 'Freedom Convoy' in Ottawa?
James Peters Feb 07, 2022 Image Credit: The Canadian Press

B.C. expected to have more than 1 million job openings in the next decade
VICTORIA - The latest labour market outlook for British Columbia shows nearly 80 per cent of job openings over the next decade will require some level of post-secondary education, reflecting the chang...
James Peters Feb 07, 2022

COVID-19 outbreak at Nicola Meadows in Merritt
MERRITT, B.C. - A second Merritt facility is in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak.Interior Health says an outbreak was declared at Nicola Meadows, an assisted living facility, on Friday (Feb. 4).The ot...
James Peters Feb 07, 2022

Student absenteeism peaked at 23 per cent in January: Kamloops-Thompson superintendent
KAMLOOPS - A report coming to the Kamloops-Thompson School District Board of Education next week shows the extent to which various illnesses have affected attendance so far in 2022.The report from Sup...
James Peters Feb 04, 2022

Nicola-Similkameen among first school districts to receive rapid tests for students
MERRITT, B.C. - Further pandemic supports are coming for B.C. students and schools, with 300,000 rapid antigen test kits to be delivered in phases.The first phase will be rural and remote school distr...
James Peters Feb 04, 2022

Tk'emlups homicide victim was Sa-Hali Secondary student
KAMLOOPS - An 18-year-old man who was found dead in a Tk'emlups parking lot last Saturday (Jan. 29) was a Grade 12 student at Sa-Hali Secondary School.In a news release issued Thursday, Kamloops RCMP ...
James Peters Feb 03, 2022

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