Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

Province's employer health tax to cost SD73 $250K a year by 2020
KAMLOOPS - School District 73 estimates Victoria’s newly proposed employer health tax will start to cost the district approximately $250,000 a year starting in 2020. Secretary-Treasurer Kelvin S...
Kayla Derkach Mar 07, 2018

Kamloops hoping for long-term solutions to biosolid waste
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops, in partnership with the province, local First Nations and the local agriculture sector, will put together a stakeholder group to deal with the city’s increasing ...
Kayla Derkach Mar 06, 2018

Kamloops mayor says city should be compensated with significant cannabis tax revenues
KAMLOOPS - The mayor of Kamloops says the city should be receiving tax revenue when cannabis is officially legalized by the federal government. It comes after the mayor of Sicamous sent a letter to Vi...
Kayla Derkach Mar 06, 2018

TRU celebrates international flavour with IDays
KAMLOOPS - It's an opportunity for the students who come to Thomspon Rivers University from abroad to show off their culture to the community. IDays is a celebration of the diversity of cultures that ...
Kayla Derkach Mar 06, 2018

Sa-Hali Secondary students prepare for Guatemala missions trip
KAMLOOPS- Over spring break, most teenagers look forward to sleeping in and hanging out with their friends. But for sixteen Sa-Hali Secondary students, the holiday will be all about giving back to oth...
Kayla Derkach Mar 06, 2018

Head-on crash claims a life, closes Trans Canada Highway near Cherry Creek
KAMLOOPS -The RCMP have confirmed one person was killed in today’s crash. Four others were sent to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Sgt. Mike Pears with Central Interior Traffic Serv...
Kayla Derkach Mar 06, 2018

Riverside Park pier repairs start Wednesday
KAMLOOPS - Repairs to the Riverside Park pier will start Wednesday. The City of Kamloops says they’ve hired a contractor to conduct repairs to the footing and rotunda of the pier. Over time, the...
Kayla Derkach Mar 06, 2018

Spring-like temperatures expected this weekend in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - It’s the news many Kamloopsians have been waiting for as temperatures are expected to soar into the double digits this weekend and continuing into early next week. “But we’...
Kayla Derkach Mar 06, 2018

Suspect arrested for carrying sawed-off shotgun
KAMLOOPS - A 36 year old Kamloops man was arrested Monday for allegedly carrying a loaded sawed-off shotgun. Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie says police were alerted to the man acting strangely near t...
Kayla Derkach Mar 06, 2018

Homicide suspect has bail hearing set
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops homicide suspect had a court date today. 30 year old Nathaniel Jessup was arrested last month in the November, 2014 killing of 20 year old Dylan Judd in Kamloops Regional Correct...
Kayla Derkach Mar 05, 2018

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