Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Providing hope to women in need through the Shoebox Project
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops residents have an opportunity to brighten up the holidays for women in need this Christmas. The Shoebox Project for Shelters distributes gifts to homeless or at-risk women in Canad...
Kayla Derkach Nov 17, 2016
Changing Face of the Kamloops RCMP: Victim Services
KAMLOOPS - In the final installment of our series The Changing Face of the Kamloops RCMP, we look at the Victim Services unit of the detachment. Consisting mostly of volunteers, Victim Services play a...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2016
Go Fund Me page aims to help Kamloops woman waiting for transplant
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops woman is hoping she will be a viable candidate to receive a heart and lung transplant. Two years ago, Sue Stratford found out her heart was failing and she would need to undergo ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2016
New overdose stats released, Health Minister to meet with feds
KAMLOOPS - Health Minister Terry Lake and Premier Christy Clark will be meeting with the federal health and public safety ministers in Ottawa tomorrow to discuss B.C.’s opioid epidemic. The meet...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2016
Students get close-up look at dangers of fentanyl
KAMLOOPS - The fentanyl crisis has hit home in Kamloops. There have been 31 overdose deaths as of the end of October The Tk’emlups Indian Band has taken notice, and on Tuesday night, in partners...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2016
Kamloops Chamber issues report card for city council
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops council gets critiques from all across the community, and now has an official evaluation from the city’s chamber of commerce. The chamber has graded council based on four cat...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2016
Police warn Sun Rivers residents after rash of thefts
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Rural RCMP have a warning for Sun Rivers residents. Officers say since Monday, a pair of thieves have been going through vehicles in the community, regardless of whether those vehi...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2016
RCMP say drunken man was throwing rocks from the roof of North Shore car wash
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say a man displaying odd and destructive behaviour last night is being held in cells until he sobers up. Officers were called to the Robo Car Wash on Tranquille Road just afte...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2016
Train hits pickup truck in downtown Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say no one was injured after a train traveling the CP tracks downtown last night hit a vehicle. Police say the train engineer noticed a Dodge pickup truck partly on the tracks...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2016
Growing need: Food Bank use increasing
KAMLOOPS - A new report from Food Banks Canada shows food bank usage in Canada, as well as specifically in BC, is at an all time high. Bernadette Siracky of the Kamloops Food Bank says that is consist...
Kayla Derkach Nov 15, 2016
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