Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - B.C. may have the lowest unemployment rate in the country, but it’s a different story here in Kamloops. Fresh numbers released Friday by Statistics Canada reveal unemployment in B.C. ...

KAMLOOPS - It’s a harsh reality in this province, overcrowding in hospital emergency rooms. At Royal Inland Hospital thousands of patients flow through the doors of the ER every year, with the w...

KAMLOOPS - It was a tale of two stories when one looks back at the weather in Kamloops last year. Environment Canada meteorologist Lisa West says winter and spring in 2017 were wetter than normal but ...

KAMLOOPS - Visits to Kamloops were up year over year in 2017. Tourism Kamloops CEO Beverley DeSantis says approximately 1.8 million visitors passed through town. “Which was up from the previous ...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Search and Rescue shattered a record for call outs in 2017. The non-profit was called out to 49 separate tasks, an increase of over 32 per cent over the previous record year in 201...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP took 24 impaired drivers off the roads during the holiday season. Sergeant Darren Michels says during the Christmas-New Years period, thousands of vehicles were checked throug...

KAMLOOPS - A man charged in connection with a shooting incident last weekend on the South Shore made a court appearance yesterday. 25-year old Brandon Dale Fiddick is charged with, among other things,...

KAMLOOPS - The Province is filing a lawsuit against the company that operates Kamloops Seniors Village for an incident that resulted in the death of one of its residents. In July of 2015, 84-year-old ...

KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has hired Wendy Heshka as its new communications manager. The City says Heshka has worked both in Canada and in the United States in the private sector including owning...

KAMLOOPS - It was another successful year for Operation Red Nose in Kamloops. The designated driving service offered 1,338 rides over 18 nights of service this holiday season, the most in B.C. “...