Author Archives: James Peters
Can you identify this alleged Kamloops booze thief?
KAMLOOPS - RCMP would like your help tracking down a man accused of stealing a bottle of booze from a North Shore liquor store. In a news release issued Wednesday (March 12), Kamloops RCMP spokesperso...
Mar 12, 2025 Image Credit: Contributed / Kamloops RCMP
Westsyde Secondary garners silver medal in BC High School Curling Championships
KAMLOOPS - Westsyde Secondary earned a silver medal in the girls' division at the B.C. High School Curling Championships, which wrapped up earlier this month in Kimberley. Moscrop Secondary of Burnaby...
Mar 12, 2025 Image Credit: Contributed
Fires at Kamloops recycling plant prompt reminder about proper battery disposal
KAMLOOPS - Three fires at a local recycling plant have city officials reminding Kamloops residents of items they should and should not throw into their recycling bins. The fires have ignited over the ...
Mar 12, 2025 Emterra Environmental (Image Credit: CFJC Today / File Photo)
Carney to be sworn in as Canada's 24th prime minister Friday
OTTAWA - Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada's 24th prime minister at a ceremony at Rideau Hall Friday after the formal resignation of Justin Trudeau. A senior Liberal source says a new cabinet wil...
Mar 12, 2025
B.C.'s New Democrat government and Greens finalize confidence agreement
VICTORIA - British Columbia's NDP government and the provincial Green Party caucus have signed an agreement that consolidates the New Democrats' hold on the provincial legislature where they have a on...
Mar 12, 2025
Justice reserves decision on conflict of interest petition against Kamloops councillor
KAMLOOPS - A B.C. Supreme Court justice has reserved his decision after hearing two days of arguments - first from a group of 10 petitioners and then from Kamloops councillor Mike O'Reilly's lawyer. T...
Mar 12, 2025
Police identify victim of 2022 homicide in Lytton as 27-year-old woman from Williams Lake
LYTTON, B.C. - Police are identifying the victim of a homicide in Lytton three years after her death. In an update Wednesday (March 12), the RCMP Southeast District Major Crime Unit (SED MCU) says the...
Mar 12, 2025
Red Bridge debris cleaned up; province says planning process for long-term solution to begin shortly
KAMLOOPS - Debris from the former Red Bridge has been completely removed from the South Thompson River. In a news release issued Wednesday (March 12) morning, B.C.'s Ministry of Transportation and Tra...
Mar 12, 2025
B.C. takes advantage of U.S. 'chaos,' trade war to attract more doctors and nurses
British Columbia's health minister says "now is the time" for American doctors and nurses to move to the province as it fast tracks recognition of their credentials during an escalating trade war betw...
Mar 11, 2025
TRU approves 10-year plan to improve on including global perspectives in campus life, education and research
KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is planning to expand global perspectives on its Kamloops and Williams Lake campuses. TRU's Senate and Board of Governors approved the university's 10-year ...
Mar 11, 2025
