Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Students still adjusting to parking crunch at TRU, some suggest parkade
KAMLOOPS - Coming into the new school year, students going to TRU knew about the parking crunch thanks to construction on campus. But nearly two months into the fall semester and some students are sti...
Oct 25, 2017
Heffley Creek Bridge construction begins
KAMLOOPS - Good news for Heffley Creek residents. Work has begun on a bridge to replace the washed-out section of Old Highway 5 in Heffley Creek. The work was prompted by a storm last May which caused...
Oct 25, 2017
Pot feedback deadline looms
KAMLOOPS - Time is running out to have your say on the future of pot regulation in British Columbia. The provincial government is offering the public a chance to have its voice heard on issues such as...
Oct 25, 2017
The Reach breaks ground on modern complex that's expected to 'revitalize' campus
KAMLOOPS - Construction of a new residential condo building on TRU campus, expected to be ready by the summer of 2019, is set to begin. The Reach, a project that’s been developed and will be bui...
Oct 24, 2017
Former peacekeeper travelling to Ottawa to support veterans
KAMLOOPS - A former UN peacekeeper is preparing to travel to Ottawa next week with other local veterans in an effort to push the government to better support veterans across the country. Scott Casey, ...
Oct 24, 2017
Neighbours on Nelson Avenue say nuisance home has been a 'nightmare'
KAMLOOPS - A day after a shooting left two men wounded near a Nelson Avenue home, neighbours in the area are speaking out and asking the city and the RCMP to clean up a nuisance home that some say has...
Oct 24, 2017
Kamloops transport company tapping into Indigenous labour market
KAMLOOPS - In a recent report The Centre for the Study of Living Standards outlined the fact that Indigenous people in Canada are underemployed, but the potential impact those Indigenous Canadians cou...
Oct 24, 2017
Milobar stirs up legislature with nickname for Ag Min Popham
VICTORIA - Rookie Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar wasn’t making any friends in the government benches of the BC Legislature Tuesday. Milobar was chided by Legislative Speaker Darryl Pl...
Oct 24, 2017
KTTA pleased new curriculum delayed a year for grades 11 & 12
KAMLOOPS - The president of the Kamloops Thompson Teachers’ Association has given the Province top marks for delaying the implementation of the new Grade 11/12 curriculum by a year to September ...
Oct 24, 2017
Kamloops MP 'very concerned' with feds' fiscal update
KAMLOOPS - “I’m very concerned.” The reaction of Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo Conservative MP Cathy McLeod to the Trudeau government’s fiscal update delivered today (Tuesday) by F...
Oct 24, 2017
