Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Interior Health has lowest rate of overdose deaths in the province: BC Coroners Service
KAMLOOPS - It's been more than three years since a public health emergency was declared in B.C. over a spike in opioid-related overdose deaths - and numbers appear to be trending downward.According to...
Oct 16, 2019 Image Credit: File photo
Six years later, Tk'emlups RCMP still searching for Dean Morrison
KAMLOOPS - Police say the disappearance of a man from the Stump Lake area in October 2013 is still a priority case.In a news release, Cpl. Mike Mucha with Tk'emlups RCMP says officers are continuing t...
Oct 16, 2019 Image Credit: RCMP Handout
2019 Federal Election Issues: Climate
KAMLOOPS - It's a well-known fact that our climate is changing. To what extent is still a bit of an unknown. But 97 per cent of climate scientists around the world believe warming trends over the last...
Oct 15, 2019
Kamloops John Howard Society's employment program aims to give second chances
KAMLOOPS - The John Howard Society in Kamloops is helping some of the city's most vulnerable get back into the workforce. With help from the provincial government, the society has implemented a job tr...
Oct 15, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Green Party leader pays visit to Kamloops one week before election day
KAMLOOPS - Green leader Elizabeth May and her husband John Kidder, a Green candidate, arrived in Kamloops to much fanfare. The two jumped over to Kamloops after Thanksgiving dinner in Ashcroft. May fe...
Oct 15, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops woman who set her two children on fire, killing one, granted full parole
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops woman who set her two children on fire 22 years ago, killing one of them, has been granted full parole.However, the Parole Board of Canada says Donna Hysop is still not admitting...
Oct 15, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Man in distress taken to hospital after overnight standoff in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Police in Kamloops say they helped a man in medical distress after an hours-long standoff this weekend.Kamloops RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Jodi Shelkie says officers were called Friday (Oct. 11...
Oct 15, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Adam Donnelly
Province, legal aid society reach agreement
VICTORIA - An historic agreement has been reached between the provincial government, the Legal Services Society (LSS), and the Association of Legal Aid Lawyers (ALL). Kamloops lawyer Graham Kay sits o...
Oct 15, 2019 Image Credit: Andrei Rahalski | Dreamstime.com
Kamloops can expect drier, sunnier winter
KAMLOOPS - AccuWeather has released its 2019-20 winter forecast, and it appears that B.C. is in the clear - for now.According to the forecast, Ontario is expected to bear the brunt of the stormy weath...
Oct 15, 2019 Image Credit: Accuweather
Spilled logs lead to Yellowhead blockage at Heffley Creek
KAMLOOPS - A logging truck lost part of its load Tuesday morning (Oct. 15), leading to a highway blockage near Heffley Creek.According to reports on social media, both southbound lanes of the Yellowhe...
Oct 15, 2019 Image Credit: Twitter / Jen Schwab Nickel
