Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
United Way kicks off 2016 fundraising campaign in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The United Way touches thousands of lives. From children's programs, helping the homeless, to assisting seniors, the money raised each year by the United Way says within the community. Last...
Kayla Derkach Sep 27, 2016
Volunteers out in force for Raise-A-Reader
KAMLOOPS - Volunteers were out in force throughout Kamloops on Tuesday morning, selling special editions of Kamloops This Week to raise money for local literacy programs. The annual Raise a Reader day...
Kayla Derkach Sep 27, 2016
Harper's Trail harvesting this years crop
KAMLOOPS - With the turning of the season comes harvest time for many local producers. Harper's Trail Winery is in the process of taking in and processing this years grapes, so that by next year at th...
Kayla Derkach Sep 26, 2016
CN employees volunteer time to United Way's Day of Caring
KAMLOOPS - It’s a project that has sat incomplete for two years. But a group of CN Rail employees are helping to rejuvinate the courtyard and playground at the Boys and Girls Club of Kamloops. C...
Kayla Derkach Sep 26, 2016
Crash causes small fire near Tranquille on the Lake
KAMLOOPS - Forestry firefighters have a late-season blaze to battle this afternoon. A single vehicle crash off Criss Creek Road started the grass fire near Tranquille on the Lake. Fire Information Off...
Kayla Derkach Sep 26, 2016
Police respond to possible gun sighting downtown
KAMLOOPS - RCMP say an urgent police response to a home in the Kamloops downtown turned out to be nothing of interest. Members were called to a home near Second Avenue and Columbia Street by a neighbo...
Kayla Derkach Sep 26, 2016
MP questions how injection sites would fight fentanyl
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod says she has her doubts about the potential for supervised injection sites to effectively address the fentanyl overdose crisis. Interior Health is ...
Kayla Derkach Sep 26, 2016
City getting share of newcomers to B.C.
KAMLOOPS - It would appear that the City of Kamloops is getting its share of new families moving into British Columbia from other provinces. A report to be discussed at tonight’s School Board me...
Kayla Derkach Sep 26, 2016
Ministry to examine School District needs
KAMLOOPS - It appears publicity over the need to examine schools in this School District is getting the provincial attention it needs. School District 73 Chair Denise Harper and other trustees have be...
Kayla Derkach Sep 26, 2016
Kamloops councillors in Victoria this week for UBCM Convention
KAMLOOPS - Municipal politicians from across the province have converged on Victoria ahead of this week’s UBCM convention. Kamloops City Councillor Arjun Singh says the convention provides an op...
Kayla Derkach Sep 25, 2016
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Is returning to a balanced budget one of your BC election priorities?
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