Author Archives: James Peters

Lafreniere, Behm react to NHL Central Scouting mid-term rankings boost
KAMLOOPS -- Two 17-year-old Kamloops Blazers' forwards saw their NHL draft stock boost on Tuesday (Jan. 14), when the NHL Central Scouting mid-term rankings were released. Nathan Behm is ranked 31st a...
James Peters Jan 14, 2025

First courses in TRU's Wildfire Studies program to begin in September
KAMLOOPS - Details of a Wildfire Studies Diploma program at Thompson Rivers University have been unveiled. Following a 30-day public feedback process, TRU says the university's Senate and Board of Gov...
James Peters Jan 14, 2025

Would you support borrowing $150 million to build a larger RCMP detachment for Kamloops?
James Peters Jan 13, 2025 Image Credit: CFJC Today

Jessie Simpson's mom still fighting for settlement as court case put over again
KAMLOOPS - Nearly nine years after Jessie Simpson was beaten into a coma in Kamloops, his mother said they still have yet to see a cent from a court settlement.Susanna Simpson was in court on Monday (...
James Peters Jan 07, 2025

Active listings up, benchmark prices down in Kamloops real estate market leaving 2024
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops real estate market exited 2024 with more inventory than the previous year. New numbers provided by the Association of Interior Realtors (AIR) show 913 active listings in the Ka...
James Peters Jan 07, 2025

Federal Liberals face uphill battle to find an 'independent identity' after Trudeau's resignation: TRU Professor
KAMLOOPS - The words 'reinvent' and 'reimagine' will quickly become cliches in the political landscape of Canada, as the Liberal Party enters what will need to be a swift leadership race. "It's really...
James Peters Jan 06, 2025

Are you happy with the way Justin Trudeau is resigning and proroguing parliament to clear the way for a new leader?
James Peters Jan 06, 2025 Image Credit: The Canadian Press

US Army veteran who killed 15 in New Orleans attack was inspired by Islamic State
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans, killing 15 people, had posted videos to social media hours before the carnage saying...
James Peters Jan 01, 2025

B.C. teen with avian flu deemed no longer infectious, taken off supplemental oxygen
VANCOUVER - A letter sent to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine signed by Canadian health officials says the British Columbia teenager who tested positive for avian flu has been taken o...
James Peters Jan 01, 2025

It's a boy! B.C.'s first baby of 2025 born at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - It's a boy! B.C.'s first baby of 2025 came into the world at 12:02 a.m. at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops. Little Emerson is the first child born to parents Jordan (Forrest-Drezet) Hill ...
James Peters Jan 01, 2025 Image Credit: Interior Health

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