Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops couple comes face-to-face with cougar
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops couple is breathing a big collective sigh of relief after coming face-to-face with a cougar this morning in Pineview. Crystal Becker says she was hiking with her husband and dog ...
Nov 10, 2017
Grasslands extension for Batchelor Heights almost ready
KAMLOOPS - A long-awaited second outlet for Batchelor Heights is nearly ready. The Grasslands Boulevard extension connecting the Batchelor neighbourhood with Westsyde Road was slated to open earlier i...
Nov 10, 2017
SPCA exhumes two dead horses from Kamloops property
KAMLOOPS - The BC SPCA has released further details into their investigation of a property on Shuswap Road where nine horses were seized yesterday. Senior Manager of Cruelty Investigations Shawn Eccle...
Nov 10, 2017
Remembrance Day Ceremonies set for Kamloops Saturday
KAMLOOPS - Everything is ready for Saturday’s Remembrance Day Ceremonies in Kamloops. The Royal Canadian Legion and the City of Kamloops are hosting the ceremonies at the Cenotaph in Riverside P...
Nov 10, 2017
Wildfire recovery manager to help homeowners rebuild
KAMLOOPS - More than two-hundred homes were partially or completed destroyed in the Thompson Nicola Regional District after this summer’s record-breaking wildfire season. With a large portion of...
Nov 09, 2017
Highway 5A to be closed between Merritt and Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Motorists take note: the Quilchena Bridge on Highway 5A will be fully closed to traffic on Nov. 14 and 16 for bridge maintenance. The bridge, which is 25 kilometres north of Merritt, will b...
Nov 09, 2017
New shuttle bus service from North Shore to Stuart Wood
KAMLOOPS - Members of the North Shore’s most vulnerable population now have an easier way to access cold weather shelters in Kamloops. This as Glenn Hilke, volunteer coordinator with local non-p...
Nov 09, 2017
Ranta re-elected chair of TNRD board
KAMLOOPS - John Ranta has been re-elected chair of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District. The Cache Creek mayor beat out lone challenger, Area “I” Director Steven Rice, at today’s re...
Nov 09, 2017
'Now is the time': Blazers owner feels Kamloops deserves another Memorial Cup
KAMLOOPS - Blazers majority owner Tom Gaglardi says 25 years after the team last hosted the Memorial Cup in 1995, now is the perfect time to go after another such event. “We think now is the tim...
Nov 09, 2017
SPCA seizes horses from Shuswap Road property
KAMLOOPS - Several horses were seized from a Tk’emlups property this morning as part of an ongoing SPCA investigation. “This is a file that we’ve been working for some time,” s...
Nov 09, 2017
