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Paid on-street parking in downtown Kamloops to return next week; lots and parkades to remain free
KAMLOOPS - Paid on-street parking will return to downtown Kamloops next Tuesday.Fees for downtown parking were lifted on March 20 in order to encourage shoppers to patronize businesses hard hit by the...
May 12, 2020
Airtankers return to Kamloops for the wildfire season
KAMLOOPS - Every spring, Kamloops residents notice a new presence in the skies above the city. Airtankers are back at the Provincial Wildfire Coordination Centre in Kamloops and they are ready for use...
May 12, 2020
HMCS Fredericton back in action after Cyclone crash
OTTAWA - The Halifax-class frigate HMCS Fredericton is back in action less than two weeks after its Cyclone helicopter crashed off the coast of Greece, killing six Canadian Armed Forces members. Depar...
May 12, 2020
Colombo Lodge serving RIH staff dinner to show gratitude for their work during the pandemic
KAMLOOPS - It's International Nurses Day, a day that has never been celebrated so much as it is this year with health-care professionals putting their lives on the line to deal with COVID-19. The Colo...
May 12, 2020
Musk becomes champion for businesses defying shutdown orders
At the Fit4All Gym in Lebanon, Illinois, owner David Tate considers Elon Musk a huge ally in the fight against government coronavirus orders that Tate says are driving him into the poorhouse. Tate reo...
May 12, 2020
SOUND OFF: Our B.C. testing strategy for COVID-19 — adapting to our pandemic
TESTING FOR COVID-19 and other infectious diseases is a core tenet of public health.It tells us the what, who and where of disease transmission, but we need to understand the limitations of testing to...
May 12, 2020
Ground stability issues lead to closure of Kamloops Home Depot
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Home Depot location on Hillside Drive has closed Tuesday (May 12) due to ground stability concerns.Vehicles are not being allowed into the store's parking lot off of Hillside D...
May 12, 2020
Neighbour reported mass shooter's domestic violence, weapons to police
HALIFAX - A former neighbour of the gunman behind last month's mass shooting in Nova Scotia says she reported his domestic violence and cache of firearms to the RCMP years ago and ...
May 12, 2020
TSB urges new way to test train brakes as probe into fatal B.C. crash continues
CALGARY - The Transportation Safety Board says there should be a better way of determining whether a train's brakes are working as they should. The agency wrote to Transport Canada last...
May 12, 2020
Police look for man accused of attacking a defender of Asian women in Vancouver
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Metro Vancouver Transit Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man suspected in a racially motivated attack against a woman. Police say a man who boarded a&nb...
May 12, 2020
