Author Archives: James Peters
COVID-19 exposure recorded on Kamloops flights
KAMLOOPS - The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is alerting Kamloops residents to a COVID-19 exposure on a flight that touched down at Kamloops Airport, and one that originated here. The WestJet flight...
May 28, 2021
VIDEO: Kamloops residents impacted by Italian-Canadian internment appreciate official apology
KAMLOOPS - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued an apology Thursday morning (May 27) for wrongdoing against Italian-Canadians during the Second World War. Tens of thousands of Italian-Canadians were l...
May 27, 2021
RCMP looking for Alexis Creek murder suspect
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - RCMP in Williams Lake are looking for a murder suspect on the lam. Kyle Gilpin is facing a charge of second degree murder in the October, 2018 killing of a man in Redstone, west ...
May 27, 2021
Tk'emlups confirms bodies of 215 children buried at former Kamloops Indian Residential School site
TK'EMLUPS TE SECWEPEMC - The chief of the Tk'emlps te Secwpemc calls the discovery "unthinkable". The band confirmed Thursday (May 27) it has found the remains of 215 children buried on the site of th...
May 27, 2021
B.C. sees 378 COVID-19 cases; interval between vaccine doses shortened for Pfizer, Moderna
VANCOUVER - B.C. is shortening the interval between first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccine for those who participated in the province's age-based vaccination program. In a news conference Thursday...
May 27, 2021
Capitol rally planned over death of man in police custody
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana State Police troopers involved in the violent arrest of a Black motorist who died in police custody in 2019 should be fired and arrested, leaders of the National Urban Lea...
May 27, 2021
Military deployed to Manitoba to help province hard hit by COVID-19 infections
Members of the military are being deployed to Manitoba where surging COVID-19 cases have overwhelmed the health-care system while all provinces are being urged to use up doses of the AstraZeneca vacci...
May 27, 2021
B.C. COVID-19 case count grows by 250, including 40 in Interior Health
VICTORIA - B.C. has recorded 250 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday (May 26), including 40 found within Interior Health. The totals are contained in an update prepared by Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonni...
May 26, 2021
Single-vehicle crash in Kelowna claims lives of three high school seniors
KELOWNA - Three high school students are dead following an overnight crash in Kelowna early Wednesday. RCMP said they responded to a single-vehicle collision on Gordon Drive north of Cook Road just af...
May 26, 2021
UBCIC calls severed bear paws found near Shuswap Lake 'a complete lack of respect for wildlife'
ANGLEMONT, B.C. - Appalled and horrified.That's how the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) reacted to 80 to 100 severed bear paws - approximately 20 to 25 bears in total - being discovered in the Ang...
May 26, 2021
