Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Winter season relatively quiet for Kamloops Search and Rescue
KAMLOOPS - The winter season is shaping up to be a relatively quiet one for Kamloops Search and Rescue. Search Manager Alan Hobler says so far, the group’s been called to around half a dozen res...
Kayla Derkach Jan 22, 2017
Kamloops kids kick-off Unplug and Play Week with ABC Literacy Day
KAMLOOPS - It has become tradition in Kamloops. For over a decade the Kamloops Early Language and Literacy Initiative has partnered with the likes of the TNRD Library, the YMCA, Literacy in Kamloops, ...
Kayla Derkach Jan 21, 2017
Kamloops Women's March draws hundreds
KAMLOOPS - It was a response to the rhetoric of the 2016 presidential election cycle. The day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America, 'hundreds of thousa...
Kayla Derkach Jan 21, 2017
School District 73 begins process of filling 30 new teaching positions
KAMLOOPS, B.C - Relief is officially on the way for the Kamloops / Thompson School District. School District 73 Board Chair Meghan Wade says they’ve begun the first phase in hiring more than 30 ...
Kayla Derkach Jan 21, 2017
Health Minister's call to raise legal smoking age to 21 receives cloudy reviews
KAMLOOPS - It’s the number-one preventable form of death in B.C. “You look at cancer, heart disease, other vascular strokes, they’re all related to smoking,” said BC Health Min...
Kayla Derkach Jan 21, 2017
Baby boomer retirement leading to trade boom
KAMLOOPS - Admission numbers show trades have never been more popular at Thompson Rivers University. “We have probably grown 10 to 15% in the last few years,” said Baldev Pooni, Interim De...
Kayla Derkach Jan 20, 2017
Mail theft caught on camera
KAMLOOPS - The managers of the Glynnwood Terrace apartments on Hugh Allan Drive in Kamloops say they want the person who stole their tenants’ mail caught. The break-in and theft happened just af...
Kayla Derkach Jan 20, 2017
Kamloops makes a big splash on the big screen
KAMLOOPS - This is an exciting time for the local film industry, as recent large scale productions that have shot in the Kamloops area are being released. The family film Monster Trucks, which shot al...
Kayla Derkach Jan 20, 2017
Former Kamloops RCMP constable avoids jail time on drug charge
KAMLOOPS - The former Mountie who purchased cocaine on three separate occasions in June 2015 will not serve any jail time. 41-year-old Randi Love was at the Kamloops courthouse today to receive her se...
Kayla Derkach Jan 20, 2017
Province funds hospice beds at Overlander Residential Care
KAMLOOPS - The Province announced funding today to improve end-of-life care in Kamloops by adding four hospice care beds to Overlander Residential Care. $120,000 has been provided for the renovation a...
Kayla Derkach Jan 20, 2017
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