Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
City Councillor wants to see higher parking fees on Victoria Street
KAMLOOPS - City Councillor Denis Walsh would like to see parking prices increased along Victoria Street. While Walsh doesn’t believe the downtown has a parking shortage issue, he says increasing...
Nov 11, 2017
Kamloops property tax rate 'doing well' compared to other cities
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops residential property tax rates are doing well compared to other municipalities. Those are the words from the city’s finance department in its 2018 provisional budget thatR...
Nov 11, 2017
TNRD working on monument to honour wildfire volunteers
KAMLOOPS - In light of the historic wildfire season that hit the B.C. Interior, the City of Kamloops and TNRD are planning a monument to commemorate the fire season, but more importantly to commemorat...
Nov 10, 2017
Remembrance day ceremony honours Secwepemc soldiers
KAMLOOPS - According to Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, one third of aboriginal people in the country enlisted in World War I. Thousands more joined the effort in World War II. Hundreds of tho...
Nov 10, 2017
Kamloops RCMP seek missing youth
KAMLOOPS - Police are seeking the public’s help in locating a missing youth. Matheau Michael Aldridge has been missing since Oct. 29 when he failed to return home. He has not been in contact wit...
Nov 10, 2017
Kamloops company helping fund men's health initiative for Movember
KAMLOOPS - For the past decade, the month of November has signalled a new growth in the space between many men's noses and mouths. Now in its tenth year, the Movember movement has grown like a moustac...
Nov 10, 2017
Kamloops tourism numbers jump in August, but influenced by wildfire evacuees
KAMLOOPS - The number of visitors to Kamloops was up 14 per cent year over year in August. The numbers are relative to the accomodation tax that is collected locally and increased because of all the e...
Nov 10, 2017
Kamloops couple comes face-to-face with cougar
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops couple is breathing a big collective sigh of relief after coming face-to-face with a cougar this morning in Pineview. Crystal Becker says she was hiking with her husband and dog ...
Nov 10, 2017
Grasslands extension for Batchelor Heights almost ready
KAMLOOPS - A long-awaited second outlet for Batchelor Heights is nearly ready. The Grasslands Boulevard extension connecting the Batchelor neighbourhood with Westsyde Road was slated to open earlier i...
Nov 10, 2017
SPCA exhumes two dead horses from Kamloops property
KAMLOOPS - The BC SPCA has released further details into their investigation of a property on Shuswap Road where nine horses were seized yesterday. Senior Manager of Cruelty Investigations Shawn Eccle...
Nov 10, 2017
