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Poor communication led to fatal 2022 ammonia leak in Mount Paul Industrial Park: Technical Safety B.C.
KAMLOOPS - A Technical Safety B.C. report into a fatal ammonia leak that occurred on May 26, 2022 determined that the primary cause of the incident was failure to remove ammonia from a refrigeration s...
Jan 26, 2023
Ground-penetrating radar finds 66 new reflections at St. Joesph's Mission Residential School in Williams Lake
Support services are in place for residential school survivors and their families here.WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Exactly one year after the Williams Lake First Nation announced the confirmation of 93 refl...
Jan 25, 2023
Results to be released after second search for graves at B.C. residential school
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A First Nation in central British Columbia is ready to announce results from the second phase of an investigation of grounds around the former St. Joseph's Mission residential sc...
Jan 25, 2023
Lytton residents growing impatient as rebuild drags
LYTTON, B.C. - Empty lots and piles of rubble line Fraser Street in the Village of Lytton. A year-and-a-half after Lytton was lost in a devastating wildfire and only a handful of residents are back li...
Jan 24, 2023
Two dead following avalanche near Revelstoke
REVELSTOKE, B.C. - Two people are dead and one person is in hospital in critical condition after an avalanche near Mount McCrae south of Revelstoke.In a news release issued Tuesday (Jan. 24), Revelsto...
Jan 24, 2023
'Some important news coming very soon;' Education Minister hints at possible funding announcement for SD73
KAMLOOPS - The student population of School District 73 is currently increasing by the size of one elementary school every year. That has left a large majority of schools in the city at or above capac...
Jan 23, 2023
Soda Creek, Armstrong mills to remain closed through February: Tolko
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Tolko Industries is blaming market conditions for announcing another month of downtime at two of its B.C. Interior mills.In a news release, Vice President of Solid Wood Troy Conn...
Jan 23, 2023
Trudeau mum on sending tanks to Ukraine as Poland pushes ahead
OTTAWA - Canada's allies are pledging to send tanks to Ukraine, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave no indication Monday morning about whether Ottawa will follow suit. Nearly a year after Russia's ...
Jan 23, 2023
Mother of young man who went missing in Sun Peaks coming to Kamloops for book-signing
KAMLOOPS - Heather Shtuka will return to Kamloops next month - on the fifth anniversary of her son's disappearance - to showcase her newly-released book.Ryan Shtuka went missing on February 17, 2018 a...
Jan 22, 2023
Ottawa, 325 nations reach settlement for damage done by residential school system
VANCOUVER - The federal government has reached an out-of-court settlement with 325 Indigenous bands who are part of a class action suit due to loss of language and culture propogated by Canada's resid...
Jan 21, 2023
