Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops RCMP: Commercial B&E's down, residential B&E's up between July and September
KAMLOOPS - Data from Kamloops RCMP shows a sharp drop in the number of commercial break and enters during the third quarter of 2024. Speaking to the City's Safety and Security Select Committee Thursda...
Victor Kaisar Nov 29, 2024
Interior Health recruiting staff at new Kamloops UPCC
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health is working to hire new staff members as it gradually ramps up operations at the north Kamloops Urgent and Primary Care Centre (UPCC) which opened this week.The new facility ...
Victor Kaisar Nov 29, 2024
Kamloops Crime Prevention unit kicks off Safe for the Season campaign
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops Crime Prevention Unit is kicking off their holiday campaign with the safe for the season program.A team of 25 volunteers are hitting the streets and parking lots of the...
Victor Kaisar Nov 28, 2024
Kamloops kids' letters to Santa still reaching the North Pole despite postal strike
KAMLOOPS - Canada Post workers are still on picket lines across the country and locally in Kamloops, demanding fair wages and safer working conditions as mediated talks have brought no end to the stri...
Victor Kaisar Nov 28, 2024
Kamloops poised to more than double civic facilities maintenance budget
KAMLOOPS - A plan to increase the maintenance budget for civic facilities in Kamloops by $2 million will be going before council for final approval in the near future, after it was previously rejected...
Nov 28, 2024
Man sent to hospital after vehicle goes down embankment in Aberdeen
KAMLOOPS - A man was sent to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after his vehicle went off an embankment in Aberdeen. In a news release issued Thursday (Nov. 28) morning, Kamloops RCMP say of...
James Peters Nov 28, 2024
Body-worn cameras rolling-out next month in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops was recently chosen as one of the few BC cities that will see its RCMP officers start using body-worn cameras and the rollout is expected to begin next month. But the Canadian impl...
Aaron Schulze Nov 27, 2024
Parents of WolfPack players involved in deadly crash pursuing review of charge recommendation
KAMLOOPS - Friday (Nov. 29) will be one-year since a fatal car crash near McGill Road and University Drive, which killed WolfPack volleyball player Owyn McInnis and seriously injured his teammates, Ri...
Aaron Schulze Nov 27, 2024
Merritt RCMP seek rightful owner of abandoned wood splitter
MERRITT, B.C. - The Merritt RCMP detachment would like to reunite a recovered wood splitter with its rightful owner. The splitter was found in downtown Merritt on October 7. In a news release, the det...
Nov 27, 2024
Kamloops council aims to ensure checks and balances in place for North Shore access hub shelter
KAMLOOPS - The North Shore access hub spurred a lengthy debate on Tuesday (Nov. 27) as Kamloops city council heard from a gaggle of residents and community groups both in support and against the propo...
Aaron Schulze Nov 27, 2024
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One Man's Opinion
COLLINS: Will the last month of the year be better than the first 11?
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Art of Christmas
Art of Christmas - Protecting Seasonal Greenery
Two and Out
PETERS: Approving the access hub shelter on the North Shore helped the helpers
Nov 29, 2024
Looped In
LOOPED IN WITH NIKKI OMEN: November 28, 2024
Nov 28, 2024
Kamloops & District Chamber of Commerce
38th Annual Business Excellence Awards
One Man's Opinion
COLLINS: Strikes like that at Canada Post need to be resolved from within
Nov 28, 2024
The Tattle of Hastings
THE TATTLE OF HASTINGS: Matonovich back on track
Nov 27, 2024