Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops Seniors Village staff member tests positive for COVID-19; exposure restrictions in place
KAMLOOPS - While Interior Health declared Kamloops Seniors Village's outbreak over, the long-term care facility experienced a staff exposure.In an email to families and residents of Kamloops Seniors V...
Oct 2, 2021
Body found near Mission Flats landfill; suspicious death investigation underway
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Serious Crime Unit has been called in to investigate a suspicious death.Friday (Oct. 1) afternoon, Kamloops Fire and Rescue located a body after responding to a suspicious fire...
Oct 2, 2021
Interior Health declares COVID-19 outbreak over at Kamloops Seniors Village
KAMLOOPS - The COVID-19 outbreak at Kamloops Seniors Village was declared over on Friday (Oct. 1).Interior Health (IH) states the long-term care facility had 20 cases associated with the outbreak - 10...
Oct 2, 2021
Almost eight in 10 support proof-of-vaccine requirement to visit public places: poll
OTTAWA - Canadians overwhelmingly support the idea of requiring vaccine passports to gain admittance to public places such as restaurants, bars and gyms, a new poll suggests. Fully 78 per cent of resp...
Oct 2, 2021
City buys the Duchess, Northbridge hotel and parking lot for $7.1 million
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has purchased a key property on Tranquille Road for $7.1 million to create new affordable housing and market rental housing on the North Shore. 377 Tranquille Road, the...
Oct 1, 2021
Friday finds 714 new COVID-19 cases in B.C., 11 more deaths
VICTORIA - B.C. is reporting 714 new cases of COVID-19 Friday (Oct. 1), including 205 new cases in Interior Health.The numbers come courtesy of an update to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control COVID-1...
Oct 1, 2021
'How full is too full?': SD73 parent advocate says district in desperate need for more space
KAMLOOPS - Outside Westmount Elementary, the kids have plenty of space to play. Inside it's a different story. While the district won't allow media in the building, the school is at 179 per cent capac...
Oct 1, 2021
Winter tire requirements begin today across B.C.
VICTORIA - With cold-weather season approaching, drivers and vehicle owners are reminded that B.C.'s annual winter tire requirements are in effect.As of Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, winter tires are mandator...
Oct 1, 2021
"Do the right thing": MP-elect Caputo implores PM Trudeau to pay respects at Tk'emlups te Secwepemc
KAMLOOPS - In one of his first acts since he was elected last Monday (Sept. 20), Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP-elect Frank Caputo has penned a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.In the letter, Cap...
Oct 1, 2021
Trailblazing Indigenous judge Marion Buller to receive TRU honorary doctorate
KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University says it will bestow an honorary doctorate on a groundbreaking Indigenous female judge next week.At its fall convocation ceremony set for next Friday (Oct. 8), the...
Oct 1, 2021
