Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
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 4, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2021
PHOTOS: Kamloops RCMP police dog Fargo celebrates his 8th birthday
KAMLOOPS - It's not always that the Kamloops RCMP detachment informs the public that one of their own is having a birthday - but this one is special.Police Service Dog Fargo turned eight Wednesday (Ju...
Jun 3, 2021
Insurance provider for Trans Mountain pipeline says it won't renew policy
EDMONTON - An insurance provider for the Trans Mountain pipeline says it will not renew its policy with the company when it expires in August.Argo Group International Holdings Ltd., an international u...
Jun 3, 2021
VIDEO: David Thompson Elementary students raise orange hands in support of Tk'emlups
KAMLOOPS - There has been an outpouring of support from the Kamloops community since the discovery of more than 200 graves at Tk'emlups te Secwepemc near the former residential school last week. Wedne...
Jun 3, 2021
