Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

Trial date set for accused in Pritchard police attack
KAMLOOPS - A trial date has been set for two men accused of trying to maim an RCMP officer two years ago in Pritchard. Jerry Lamar and Leon Leclerc are both charged with attempting to wound, maim, dis...
Kayla Derkach Mar 22, 2016

Valleyview overpass rehabilitation set to start
KAMLOOPS - With the improvement in the weather comes the return of roadwork season. The Ministry of Transportation has announced five weeks of work to rehabilitate the Valleyview overpass, starting ne...
Kayla Derkach Mar 22, 2016

Crews conduct controlled burn in Kenna Cartwright
KAMLOOPS - Wildfires are not a big concern in March, but the time is right for prescribed burns. For the second time in a week a controlled burn covering 20 hectares was conducted in Kenna Cartwright ...
Kayla Derkach Mar 21, 2016

Council sends SLR back to question KGHM
KAMLOOPS - An 18,000 page application to the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office, it is KGHM Ajax quest to gain approval for the proposed copper-gold mine, south of Kamloops. But now, more than 2 mon...
Kayla Derkach Mar 21, 2016

Kamloops YMCA looking at alternatives to aging pool
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has a decision to make in the coming weeks, whether to keep three pools open on the North Shore, including Westsyde pool, or go ahead with a proposed leisure pool on Mc...
Kayla Derkach Mar 21, 2016

Seedy Saturday returns to Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Despite the cool, cloudy weather, yesterday was the first official full day of Spring. It won’t be long before area residents will be planting gardens reaping the bounty of fresh vege...
Kayla Derkach Mar 21, 2016

Steep fines and penalties for those caught damaging grasslands
KAMLOOPS - Over 100 people gathered to help clean up the grasslands near Dewdrop Range in Kamloops on Sunday. It came after a recent rash of illegal dumping which is polluting and damaging the preserv...
Kayla Derkach Mar 20, 2016

Shots fired, two arrests and weapons recovered on Skeetchestn Reserve
KAMLOOPS - Two men are in custody after a suspected shooting on the Skeetchestn Reserve west of Kamloops around 3 this morning RCMP Sergent Sascha Fesenko says witnesses reported seeing two males carr...
Kayla Derkach Mar 19, 2016

SLR reveals preliminary findings on Ajax application
KAMLOOPS - SLR Consulting, hired by the City of Kamloops and paid by KGHM, presented its preliminary findings of the mine company’s more than 18,000-page application to a full house on Friday ni...
Kayla Derkach Mar 18, 2016

Transportation Minister announces more money for highway road maintenance
KAMLOOPS - Transportation Minister Todd Stone was out at the Coquihalla Highway today, highlighting a 36-million dollar budget increase for highway maintenance over the next three years. The increase ...
Kayla Derkach Mar 18, 2016

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