Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Women's kidney health front and centre on World Kidney Day
KAMLOOPS - It’s known as the ‘silent killer’ – Chronic Kidney Disease is considered the fastest growing health concern in our province, with thousands of renal patients on dial...
Mar 8, 2018
City of Kamloops to pay extra $1.1 million in 2019 with employer health tax
KAMLOOPS - This year, the City of Kamloops will pay half a million dollars in MSP premiums for its nearly 900 employees and has budgeted an extra $100,000 as a cushion. But in 2019, the city will be s...
Mar 8, 2018
TRUSU 'Fund the Future' organizers to meet with MLAs over funding shortfall
KAMLOOPS - Organizers of a campaign calling for equitable provincial funding for Thompson Rivers University will meet with MLAs Todd Stone and Peter Milobar tomorrow. TRU Students’ Union Vice-Pr...
Mar 8, 2018
2018 housing starts way up year-over-year in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says the Kamloops home construction sector had another strong month in February. CMHC recorded 19 new housing starts last month, including 13 sin...
Mar 8, 2018
Body not yet recovered from Domtar mill site
KAMLOOPS - Forensic specialists have yet to recover the body discovered at the Domtar pulp mill Wednesday, and Kamloops RCMP say it could take longer than a day before the body is removed from the sce...
Mar 8, 2018
Specialty dogs take up search for man missing at Sun Peaks
KAMLOOPS - It has been nearly three weeks since anyone has seen 20 year old Ryan Shtuka. The Alberta man disappeared after leaving a house party in Sun Peaks Resort, where he was living and working. E...
Mar 7, 2018
Body discovered at Domtar Pulp Mill
KAMLOOPS - A gruesome discovery in Kamloops Wednesday afternoon. Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie says just after 3:00 p.m. Mounties were called to Domtar Pulp Mill on Mission Flats Road after employee...
Mar 7, 2018
Stone, James clash in legislature over payroll tax, ICBC
VICTORIA - Kamloops-South Thompson BC Liberal MLA Todd Stone sparred with Finance Minister Carole James in the BC legislature today over the NDP employer health tax plan. Stone used organic food busin...
Mar 7, 2018
Kamloops group seeks referendum on time change
KAMLOOPS - With Daylight Saving Time just days away a Kamloops group is confident its push to end the practice is nearing fruition. Bob Dieno, co-founder of ‘STOP the Time Change,’ has bee...
Mar 7, 2018
Province's employer health tax to cost SD73 $250K a year by 2020
KAMLOOPS - School District 73 estimates Victoria’s newly proposed employer health tax will start to cost the district approximately $250,000 a year starting in 2020. Secretary-Treasurer Kelvin S...
Mar 7, 2018
