Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - Candidates can pound the pavement all they like but at the end of the day name recognition may be the deciding factor in who gets elected in this month’s Kamloops by-election. “...

KAMLOOPS - Beginning in 1893, hundreds of Secwepemc children were forcibly removed from their homes, and taken to the Kamloops Indian Residential School. The school has been closed since 1977, but for...

KAMLOOPS - After two days of advance voting in this month’s Kamloops by-election, 1,398 people have cast their ballot so far. That’s up from the first two days of advance voting in the 201...

KAMLOOPS - Ranchers are one step closer to receiving assistance following this summer’s devastating wildfires. Kevin Boon, general manager with the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association, says the p...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops’ John O’Fee is out as board chair for Interior Health. Today the provincial goverment announced its appointed Dr. Doug Cochrane, a professor emeritus at UBC, to replace...

KAMLOOPS-A return to more seasonal conditions means the campfire ban covering the Kamloops Fire Centre will be lifted today at noon. The ban has also been rescinded in the Southeast and Cariboo fire c...

KAMLOOPS - Mounties have identified the person killed in a shooting Thursday night in Kamloops. The deceased has been identified as 34-year-old Konaam Shirzad. Shirzad was a known member of the Red Sc...

KAMLOOPS - RCMP are investigating Kamloops’ second homicide of 2017. Mounties rushed to a home on Hudson’s Bay Trail in the West End at about 7:20 Thursday evening, responding to multiple ...

KAMLOOPS - With the civic by-election just over a week away, we bring you the sixth and final mayoral profile. Todd McLeod worked overseas as a TV producer for close to a decade before taking to the s...

KAMLOOPS - The Upper Nicola Band will host the “Calling our Spirits Back” healing walk this weekend. The journey will start at 9 a.m. Friday with a ceremony at the old Kamloops Indian Resi...