Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Shortage of nurse practitioners in Kamloops temporary: Interior Health
KAMLOOPS - A shortage of nurse practitioners in the area is leaving some Kamloops patients without a primary care provider. One nurse practitioner at the North Shore Primary Care Centre recently left ...
Jun 12, 2019 Image Credit: Manop Phimsit | Dreamstime.com
Kamloops man pleads for return of unique truck with sentimental value
KAMLOOPS - UPDATE: According to posts on social media, the truck has been recovered.EARLIER: A Kamloops man is reaching out to the public for help after a distinctive truck was stolen.In a social medi...
Jun 12, 2019 Image Credit: Facebook / Dustin Thomas
Improvements coming to highway standards across Southern Interior
MERRITT, B.C. - With new highway contracts for the Southern Interior going into place next month, the province says standards for roadways will improve.The new contractor for the Merritt and surroundi...
Jun 12, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Sunrise Records joins Marshalls as future Aberdeen Mall tenants
KAMLOOPS - Aberdeen Mall is filling one of its vacancies with a record store.On social media this morning, the mall announced it will add Sunrise Records to the upper level this fall. Sunrise Records ...
Jun 12, 2019 Sunrise's Orchard Park Mall location (Image Credit: Sunrise Records)
Local arts groups coming together to build support for proposed performing arts centre
KAMLOOPS - From the time Ron and Rae Fawcett put forward a new performing arts centre proposal, the wheels have been put in motion to move the project ahead. Since the announcement of a 103,000 square...
Jun 11, 2019 Rendition of a $70-million proposed arts centre put forward by the Fawcett family in January (Image Credit: CHP Architects)
Kamloops Museum explores area's history through Geographical Survey photographs
KAMLOOPS - In 1871, Kamloops was just a pit stop on fur trading routes, a small fort at the confluence of two rivers. It wasn't yet a guarantee that 12 years later, it would become a stop on the Canad...
Jun 11, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Logan Lake cannabis facility likely to be in operation early next year
KAMLOOPS - A proposed cannabis grow operation in Logan Lake is inching towards reality. Originally, MedFlora Pharmaceutical had plans to open its medicinal plant greenhouse and cannabis facility this ...
Jun 11, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Mother of Ryan Shtuka joins organization to help loved ones of missing people
KAMLOOPS - There is no handbook on how to deal with a loved one going missing, but four women are turning their shared grief into something positive. Heather Shtuka's son Ryan went missing from Sun Pe...
Jun 11, 2019 Image Credit: Facebook / Free Bird Project
Logan Lake residents annoyed with boil water advisory
KAMLOOPS - Logan Lake residents have been boiling their drinking water since the beginning of the month. The District put out a boil water advisory on June 1, when Interior Health flagged high bacteri...
Jun 11, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Paramount Theatre re-opens with 'Best of the Fest' this weekend
KAMLOOPS - The Paramount Theatre in downtown Kamloops will re-open this weekend.The Kamloops Film Society (KFS) has announced a weekend of film showings at the theatre. 'Best of the Fest' will feature...
Jun 11, 2019 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
