Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops council reviews recent shelter-use, potential BC Housing MOU and complex care needs
KAMLOOPS - A recent report from the City of Kamloops notes shelter use over the last several weeks has been high.When temperatures dropped in December's cold snap, Kamloops' Social, Housing, and Commu...
Jan 25, 2022
Downtown day space for Kamloops' homeless population operating again in 2022
KAMLOOPS - The Gathering Place will be back in downtown Kamloops for 2022.Kamloops council approved a short-term facility use permit for The Mustard Seed and Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society (KA...
Jan 25, 2022
TELUS apologizes to Highway 8 residents, promises to credit anyone mischarged after floods
SPENCES BRIDGE, B.C. - TELUS is apologizing to the displaced residents of Highway 8 near Spences Bridge, after the company sent out bills for internet and cellular service no one received.On Monday, C...
Jan 25, 2022
Free family fun for Interior Savings Unplug and Play Family Literacy Week
KAMLOOPS - Billy Miner hopped on this train to rob it. How did he get on to the train? Will someone catch him? If not, where will he get off? What will he do next? These are the kind of questions you'...
Jan 25, 2022
"Are we in the clear? Absolutely not." Interior Health resists complacency even as COVID-19 cases wane
KAMLOOPS - The Omicron variant of COVID-19 has rapidly changed the pandemic because it's more contagious and has a shorter incubation period.Contact tracing and testing are no longer useful tools for ...
Jan 25, 2022
COVID-19 hospitalizations still under 1,000 in B.C.; intensive care patient total increases
VICTORIA - COVID-19 hospitalizations slightly decreased in B.C. on Tuesday (Jan. 25).According to the Ministry of Health, 985 patients are in hospital due to COVID-19, down two from Monday (Jan. 22). ...
Jan 25, 2022
Citing record low return estimates, conservation groups lobby government for steelhead protection
KAMLOOPS - More than a dozen conservation groups are calling on the federal government to protect the endangered Interior Fraser River steelhead under Canada's Species at Risk Act.Experts estimate the...
Jan 25, 2022
Early studies find at least 93 potential burials at St. Joseph's Mission Residential School in Williams Lake
Support services are in place for residential school survivors and their families here. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Data from Williams Lake First Nation's (WLFN) investigation shows 93 reflections, which di...
Jan 25, 2022
Some Chromebooks stolen from Parkcrest Elementary recovered; majority still missing
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say some of the laptops taken from Parkcrest Elementary School students have been recovered.A total of 54 Chromebooks were taken earlier this month in two separate break-ins a...
Jan 25, 2022
Buyer beware - Kamloops woman waiting for her new home
KAMLOOPS - Last June, Marieke Alferink says she picked out a design and put down a deposit on a manufactured home to live in Kamloops. She alleges she was told COVID-19 and supply chain interruptions ...
Jan 25, 2022
