Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
READ: How to support Tk'emlups te Secwepemc
TK'EMLUPS - After the horrific discovery announced at the former Kamloops residential school, many are wondering how they can help and support the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc community. The First Nation ha...
Jun 04, 2021
RCMP execute search warrants, arrest several
KAMLOOPS - RCMP say a trespassing call earlier this week eventually led to the arrest of several people and the execution of warrants in Kamloops, Abbotsford, Barriere and 100 Mile House. Around 9:00 ...
Jun 04, 2021 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Many have given up looking for work : STATSCAN
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the economy lost 68,000 jobs in May as lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19 continued. The unemployment rate was 8.2 per cent in May, little changed from the 8.1 pe...
Jun 04, 2021
Chief calls news conference as memorial grows near Kamloops, B.C., residential school
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - An update is expected from the chief of the Tk'emlups te Sewepemc First Nation, a week after the band announced the discovery of what are believed to be the remains of 215 children at...
Jun 04, 2021
RCMP open file, pledge to support Tk'emlups te Secwepemc on residential school discovery
TK'EMLUPS - The Tk'emlups Rural RCMP detachment has opened a file related to the discovery of children's remains near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.In a news release distributed Thursd...
Jun 03, 2021
Author of Five Little Indians hoping her book encourages better understanding of residential schools
KAMLOOPS - "Clara cried and cried for Lily, for herself, for her lost angel." Michelle Good also cries for Lily, one of the book's characters who dies of tuberculosis at a residential school in Missio...
Jun 03, 2021
Average Kamloops sales price has jumped 18 per cent in a year: real estate association
KAMLOOPS - The red-hot Kamloops real estate market cooled slightly in May, but remains tilted heavily in favour of sellers. New totals released by the Kamloops and District Real Estate Association (KA...
Jun 03, 2021
Long-term supports needed to brace for impact of more residential school site discoveries: FNHA
KAMLOOPS - The discovery of hundreds of child-burial sites near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School has had a far-reaching impact - nationally, and mentally for residential school survivors,...
Jun 03, 2021
If your first vaccine in B.C. was AstraZeneca, the second shot is your choice: doctor
VICTORIA - British Columbia residents who received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will be able to choose if they want to stay with the same shot or take one of the other options. Provincial health off...
Jun 03, 2021
Wildfire service attacks fire from ground and air, Highway 97 closed north of Vernon
VERNON, B.C. - The B.C. Wildfire Service says an industrial mill fire north of Vernon near Tonasket Road is now 1.5 hectares in size, with 25 provincial firefighters on site and numerous local departm...
Jun 03, 2021
