Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Family members relieved as inquest wraps up
KAMLOOPS - Family members of a young man who took his own life outside of Royal Inland Hospital two years ago say they’re happy a coroners’ inquest into the death was called – and no...
Apr 14, 2016
McLeod lukewarm on proposed assisted dying legislation
KAMLOOPS - Local MP Cathy McLeod says she’s disappointed legislation has to be tabled so quickly when it comes to the sensitive subject of doctor-assisted dying. The government introduced the ne...
Apr 14, 2016
Arrested McDonald Park protester sounds off
KAMLOOPS - The McDonald Park protester arrested and charged after an encounter with a City of Kamloops employee yesterday wants to tell his side of the story. 61 year old Tom Pedrotti is facing charge...
Apr 14, 2016
McDonald Park protester arrested
KAMLOOPS - A protester is facing serious charges after an encounter with a Kamloops by-law officer near McDonald Park this morning. Kamloops RCMP Corporal Jodi Shelkie says the by-law officer was tryi...
Apr 13, 2016
Pivot Legal Society observes Setah inquest
KAMLOOPS - The coroners’ inquest into the death of 18 year old Jacob George Setah is into its third day. Setah is the young man who died in a fall from the Royal Inland Hospital parkade in 2014,...
Apr 13, 2016
McLeod calls for multi-faceted response to Attawapiskat crisis
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod was front and centre in an emergency debate in the House of Commons last night in response to the suicide crisis in the remote First Nations commun...
Apr 13, 2016
Thief raids locker at TCC
KAMLOOPS - Police would like your help finding a man who broke into a locker at the Tournament Capital Centre yesterday morning. According to investigators, the man broke into a locker in the men̵...
Apr 13, 2016
Thieves target cars at RIH parkade
KAMLOOPS - RCMP are looking for help identifying thieves who targeted vehicles in the Royal Inland Hospital parkade last month. On March 26, a man and woman tried breaking into a number of vehicles pa...
Apr 13, 2016
Work already underway to tear down McDonald Park pool
KAMLOOPS - Not 24 hours after Kamloops council affirmed its decision to close the McDonald Park pool, work has already begun to demolish it. Nearby residents have reported excavators were on scene fir...
Apr 13, 2016
Margaret Trudeau lights up RIH Foundation fundraiser
KAMLOOPS - Margaret Trudeau shared her story at the Shine The Light fundraiser to raise money for the improvements to One South, the mental health ward in the Royal Inland Hospital. The fundraiser was...
Apr 13, 2016
