Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
ASK Wellness Society expands Mattress Recycling Program
KAMLOOPS - An employment program intended to provide meaningful employment opportunities to barriered individuals is expanding its service.ASK Wellness Society (ASK) says, thanks to a $10,000 grant fr...
Nov 3, 2021
Kamloops couple wins $500,000 on Extra ticket
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops couple is in store for an extra special retirement.Patrick Kidder's trip to pick up some tools uncovered that he and his wife Jody scored an unexpected windfall to put towards th...
Nov 3, 2021
TRU's new Global Skills Opportunity project to help 150 students gain international study experience
KAMLOOPS - Nearly 150 Thompson Rivers University (TRU) students will be gaining global skills through the newly launched guided short-term outbound mobility project.The international study opportunity...
Nov 3, 2021
Four Kamloops schools added to IH COVID-19 exposure list Wednesday
KAMLOOPS - While the number of school exposures to COVID-19 in Interior Health appears to be on the decline, there are four new schools to add to the list in Kamloops.As of late Wednesday morning (Nov...
Nov 3, 2021
With $15M donation, Phil and Jennie Gaglardi Foundation claims name of Royal Inland Hospital patient care tower
KAMLOOPS - When the first phase of the new Patient Care Tower officially opens in July, on it will be the names of two people who cared deeply about the Kamloops community. It will be named the Phil &...
Nov 3, 2021
CMHA Kamloops removes 'interim' from Executive Director Achoba's title
KAMLOOPS - The Canadian Mental Health Association's (CMHA) Kamloops branch has removed the 'interim' tag from Executive Director Alfred Achoba's title.Achoba stepped into the agency's lead role in 202...
Nov 3, 2021
Missing Kamloops woman's Jeep found downtown
KAMLOOPS - Shannon White's Jeep was found in downtown Kamloops, but the search for the missing 32-year-old woman continues.Kamloops RCMP confirmed Wednesday (Nov. 3) morning that the black 1997 TJ mod...
Nov 3, 2021
Williams Lake Mayor apologizes but doesn't resign
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Williams Lake Mayor Walt Cobb has apologized for offending with his sharing of a Facebook post that supported the work of the residential school system in Canada.He apologized du...
Nov 3, 2021
Kamloops Cancer Care Centre in concept planning stage
KAMLOOPS - Concept planning is underway for a cancer care treatment centre in Kamloops.The Ministry of Health has confirmed the first step to the development of any new facility, has begun. During the...
Nov 3, 2021
Interior Health alerts users of 'ketamine' that will have the opposite effect
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health has issued a drug alert for a substance being sold as ketamine in Kamloops.The alert notes the substance is a grainy, white, crystalline powder but may contain methamphetami...
Nov 2, 2021
