Category Archives: British Columbia

Phone scammer stopped by Victoria centenarian
KAMLOOPS - A Victoria centenarian is being credited after she alerted staff at her senior’s home about a telephone scam. According to police, the scam had already taken two other residents of th...
Kayla Derkach Dec 22, 2015

CO Service downplays cheetah risk
CRESTON, B.C. - The Conservation Officer Service is downplaying the risks posed by a cheetah at large in the Kootenays. Last Thursday, RCMP alerted the public to the presence of the big cat after a mo...
Kayla Derkach Dec 22, 2015

Site C contract $250M higher than estimate: Horgan
KAMLOOPS - NDP Leader John Horgan says a new contract announced for the Site C dam project on the Peace River comes in $250 million more than an estimate made just last month. BC Hydro has announced i...
Kayla Derkach Dec 22, 2015

Police seek man found in wrong home, asleep in bed beside female resident
SURREY, B.C. - RCMP in Surrey, B.C., are looking for a man who entered the wrong home and crawled into bed with the female resident. The man believed to be in his early 20s entered the home early Sund...
Kayla Derkach Dec 22, 2015

Canadians with marijuana convictions call on Trudeau to offer pardons
VANCOUVER - Marcus Richardson is, in the eyes of the law, a criminal. Never mind that a judge ruled the six kilograms of cannabis police found in his car was for severely ill patients at a medical mar...
Kayla Derkach Dec 22, 2015

Coquihalla open following semi-truck fire
KAMLOOPS – Updated at 12:15am. The highway is now open northbound. EARLIER: The Coquihalla highway is closed as of 10pm Monday December 21 due to a semi truck fire. Traffic is not moving between...
Kayla Derkach Dec 21, 2015

BC Hydro sets contract for controversial Site C dam at $1.75 billion
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s power utility will pay a consortium of three companies about $1.75 billion to build the largest components of the controversial Site C hydroelectric dam in the pro...
Kayla Derkach Dec 21, 2015

Nicola Valley group purchase biosolid land
KAMLOOPS - 19 Nicola Valley residents have pooled their money and purchased a controversial property planned as a biosolids processing site. The 320-acre parcel at Dry Lake was previously owned by Bio...
Kayla Derkach Dec 21, 2015

Shuswap standoff leads to house fire
EAGLE BAY - Some serious drama unfolded in the normally-sleepy Shuswap community of Eagle Bay overnight. It began at about 10pm Sunday December 20, when Salmon Arm RCMP were called to a tense disturba...
Kayla Derkach Dec 21, 2015

Fire destroys Barriere mobile home
KAMLOOPS - A Barriere man has been left with nothing after his mobile home went up in flames yesterday. Barriere Fire Chief Al Kirkwood says crews were called to the Riverland Trailer Park at about 2:...
Kayla Derkach Dec 21, 2015

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