Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops Heritage Railway awarded $80,000 federal grant
KAMLOOPS - A federal grant will help the Kamloops Heritage Railway (KHR) spruce up its offerings this year. According to Executive Director Cory Clark, KHR has received an $80,000 grant through Ottawa...
Feb 24, 2021
Ayesha Mosque aiming to relocate within Kamloops city limits, become closer with community
KAMLOOPS - Knutsford has been home for nearly 14 years, but the Kamloops Islamic Association (KIA) is looking to relocate Ayesha Mosque within city limits.Relocation discussions have been on and off f...
Feb 24, 2021
Kamloops student followed; RCMP encourage street-proof awareness
KAMLOOPS - A student was walking home last week when she noticed a man who appeared to be following her. Kamloops RCMP said a suspicious person near a school on the 900-block of Southill Street was fo...
Feb 24, 2021
RAW VIDEO: Successful hunt for McArthur Island lynx caught on camera
KAMLOOPS - Visitors to McArthur Island Park in Kamloops may have spied a resident lynx over the past few weeks. Usually, a lynx will stay out of the limelight, but a video making the rounds on social ...
Feb 24, 2021
Two Kamloops schools, one Merritt school added to COVID-19 exposure list
KAMLOOPS - Two more Kamloops schools have been added to the Interior Health (IH) COVID-19 exposure list.IH says Beattie Elementary had an exposure on Wednesday and Thursday of last week (Feb. 17 and 1...
Feb 24, 2021
Kamloops partaking in Pink Shirt Day to bring an end to bullying
KAMLOOPS - Many throughout the City of Kamloops are wearing pink and joining the stand against bullying.Kamloops students, school staff, sheriffs and police officers partook in Pink Shirt Day on Wedne...
Feb 24, 2021
Embattled Gill resigns from TRU Board of Governors
KAMLOOPS - Sukh Gill has tendered his resignation to the Thompson Rivers University Board of Governors after a damning report on his spending during his former term as CAO of the Thompson-Nicola Regio...
Feb 24, 2021
"We didn't know what we were going to do": Kamloops non-profits navigate pandemic trials, triumphs
KAMLOOPS - Charitable organizations have been on the frontlines for helping people in need over the last year. The pandemic arrived as a great unknown. As Kamloops businesses closed their doors and st...
Feb 23, 2021
Political experts in Kamloops feel Canada needs more allies in fight against cultural genocide in China
KAMLOOPS - The atrocities happening in China are finally coming to light after Canadian parliament declared the treatment of the Uyhurs - a minority group of Muslims in the northwest province of Xinji...
Feb 23, 2021
Kamloops Food Policy Council awarded $750,000 grant for Food Hub project
KAMLOOPS - Thanks to $750,000 from the province, the Kamloops Food Policy Council will be able to purchase food processing equipment for a new food hub in the local area. The non-profit will use a net...
Feb 23, 2021
