Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
City consultant releases final report on proposed Ajax mine
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops-contracted consultant has released its final report after its review of the KGHM-Ajax mine application. In the report, SLR Consulting says its findings are consistent w...
Jun 13, 2017
Crown wins appeal, RCMP attackers going to jail
KAMLOOPS - Two men convicted of beating a Kamloops RCMP officer until he was unconscious will go to jail after all. Jerry Lamar and Leon Leclerc were convicted in the brutal beating of Cst. Paul Koest...
Jun 13, 2017
SD73 implements "flush protocol" to address lead issue
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops-Thompson School District believes it knows how to solve the problem of lead in the drinking water at several Kamloops-area schools. A slightly elevated lead level was first det...
Jun 13, 2017
Kamloops to take over popular Victoria buskers festival
KAMLOOPS - Canada’s Tournament Capital has beaten out several BC communities to become the next host of the Victoria International Buskers Festival. The popular Victoria festival has been called...
Jun 13, 2017
"Unfortunate accident" at Kamloops gun range shocks shooting community
KAMLOOPS - The B.C. shooting community is shocked and saddened by the death of a Vancouver man at a Kamloops gun range on Sunday. “It’s a close knit community in the shooting fraternity, j...
Jun 12, 2017
Paramedics finish final leg of memorial ride
KAMLOOPS - B.C. paramedics were wrapping up the inaugural BC Paramedic Memorial Ride this evening (Jun 12). Paramedics rode from Osoyoos to the Honour Ranch near Heffley Creek over four days. Today wa...
Jun 12, 2017
Kamloops MLA Todd Stone returns to cabinet
VICTORIA - The new BC Liberal cabinet has some Kamloops content, but not as much as prior to the election. Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone will return to his familiar post as Minister of Transp...
Jun 12, 2017
Seasonal fire restrictions take effect this week
KAMLOOPS - The seasonal burning ban for the Kamloops Fire Centre will take effect this Thursday, June 15. That means all fires larger than a campfire – or a half-metre by a half-metre – wi...
Jun 12, 2017
Kamloops, Shuswap no longer under flood watch
KAMLOOPS - The BC River Forecast Centre has lifted the Flood Watch in place for the South Thompson River, placing the river on a High Streamflow Advisory. The move indicates the tension beginning to e...
Jun 12, 2017
Tk'emlups man stabbed Saturday, waits until Sunday afternoon to report
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Rural RCMP say a Tk’emlups resident is recovering from multiple stab wounds, allegedly suffered at the hands of his wife. Police say the man received the wounds Saturday nigh...
Jun 12, 2017
