Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
McLachlan and Marshall headline 2024 Roots and Blues Fest
SALMON ARM, B.C. - Sarah McLachlan has been invited back to this year's Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival after not being able to perform at the event in 2023.McLachlan's show last August - and the ...
Aaron Schulze Mar 12, 2024
Kamloops Minor Hockey Association honours life of six-year-old Eli Jones with new award
KAMLOOPS - Six-year-old Eli Jones loved playing hockey and was a proud U7 Kamloops Canuck. Young Eli died in the hospital on Christmas Eve due to complications with an illness. It has been a difficult...
Mar 11, 2024
Coyote Brings the Food conference kicks off 2024 edition of TRU IDays
KAMLOOPS - IDays kicks off this week at Thompson Rivers University. Each year the university hosts a weeklong celebration of diverse cultures and people that make up TRU and the surrounding community....
Aaron Schulze Mar 11, 2024
Susceptible to the next big flood, Merritt patiently awaits ministerial sign-off for land purchases
MERRITT, B.C. - Earlier this year, the City of Merritt received word that the federal government agreed to fund $46.5 million for the rebuilding of two dikes in the community. With the community at mo...
Aaron Schulze Mar 11, 2024
Loaded firearms, stolen vehicle seized after police raid Kamloops hotel room
KAMLOOPS - Multiple loaded firearms and a stolen vehicle were seized and three men were arrested after an investigation led police to a hotel in Kamloops on Saturday (March 9).The Combined Forces Spec...
Aaron Schulze Mar 11, 2024
Notable prescribed burn taking place near Quilchena
UPDATE (11:00 a.m.): A second, concurrent notable prescribed burn will be held in the Merritt area.In a news release issued Monday (March 11), the BC Wildfire Service says it and the Coldwater Indian ...
Aaron Schulze Mar 11, 2024
Kamloops property slated for multi-family housing building could become hotel site again
KAMLOOPS - Hotel to housing and back to a hotel.That's what Mundi Construction is hoping to achieve with a property on 1270 Rogers Way next to the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre in Aberdee...
James Peters Mar 11, 2024
Kamloops nurse suspended for knocking cell phone out of client's hand during confrontation
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops nurse has been suspended for three weeks after knocking a cell phone out of a client's hand.In an online notice posted Friday (March 8), the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives (...
Aaron Schulze Mar 11, 2024
Kamloops gear up for Music in the Park 2024
KAMLOOPS - The city of Kamloops is getting ready for the 2024 edition of Music in the Park and is now accepting applications from performers and mobile food vendors. This summer tradition has been aro...
Mar 10, 2024
Life-saving cancer therapy now being provided in British Columbia
VANCOUVER - Cancer patients affected by certain advanced leukemias and lymphomas will now have better access to chimeric antigen receptor T-Cell (CAR-T) therapy closer to home, as the therapy becomes ...
Silvia Senna Mar 10, 2024
Our Community
Two and Out
PETERS: We know who to vote against - now who do we vote for?
Oct 18, 2024
Art of Gardening
Art of Gardening - Four Shrub Combos for the Fall Season
Looped In
LOOPED IN WITH NIKKI OMEN: October 17, 2024
Oct 18, 2024
The Creative Edge
PEARCE: Writer's block - is it real?
Oct 17, 2024
Art of Gardening
Art of Gardening - Making Compost for the Garden
One Man's Opinion
COLLINS: Do you understand what's at stake Saturday?
Oct 17, 2024
The Tattle of Hastings
THE TATTLE OF HASTINGS: Mutrie looks back on 10 years
Oct 16, 2024