Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Student absenteeism peaked at 23 per cent in January: Kamloops-Thompson superintendent
KAMLOOPS - A report coming to the Kamloops-Thompson School District Board of Education next week shows the extent to which various illnesses have affected attendance so far in 2022.The report from Sup...
Feb 04, 2022
Nicola-Similkameen among first school districts to receive rapid tests for students
MERRITT, B.C. - Further pandemic supports are coming for B.C. students and schools, with 300,000 rapid antigen test kits to be delivered in phases.The first phase will be rural and remote school distr...
Feb 04, 2022
Kamloops-area home prices have risen 35 per cent in 12 months: real estate association
KAMLOOPS - The latest statistics from the Kamloops and District Real Estate Association (KADREA) show a market tilting even more heavily in favour of the seller - and growing further out of reach for ...
Feb 04, 2022
Tk'emlups homicide victim was Sa-Hali Secondary student
KAMLOOPS - An 18-year-old man who was found dead in a Tk'emlups parking lot last Saturday (Jan. 29) was a Grade 12 student at Sa-Hali Secondary School.In a news release issued Thursday, Kamloops RCMP ...
Feb 03, 2022
Friend remembers ‘always laughing’ Ashley Wadsworth — but ‘she needed help’
KELOWNA - A friend of Ashley Wadsworth, the young Vernon woman murdered in England this week, says there was never a dull moment with her.But, she had also been reaching out for help and her relations...
Feb 03, 2022
How to spot the signs of an eating disorder and get help
KAMLOOPS - Eating disorders are on the rise and treatment is harder to come by due to the pandemic.Staff at the National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) have seen a 59 per cent increase in ...
Feb 03, 2022
Kamloops pharmacist urges COVID-19 vaccination booster uptake, says doses are going to waste
KAMLOOPS - Missagh Manshadi is throwing away unusable Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. The pharmacist says not enough people are coming in for booster shots and the solution is going bad. "We have so far di...
Feb 03, 2022
Embrace the season for the PLAYKamloops How to Play Winter Challenge
KAMLOOPS - While February is the shortest month of any year, when the winter doldrums set in it can feel like the longest. Here in Kamloops, there's a group trying to encourage residents to get outsid...
Feb 03, 2022
Thirteen more deaths from COVID-19 in B.C.; hospitalizations hover below 1,000
VICTORIA - Thirteen more British Columbians have died of COVID-19.The information is contained in the latest update on the virus released by B.C.'s Ministry of Health, issued Thursday (Jan. 3). The pr...
Feb 03, 2022
Thief steals donation box from North Shore Tim Horton's
KAMLOOPS - RCMP are investigating the theft of a donation box from a North Shore fast food restaurant.Cst. Crystal Evelyn says it happened at about 2:00 Saturday morning (Jan. 29), at a restaurant in ...
Feb 03, 2022
