Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Trailblazing outreach worker leaving ASK Wellness after 17 years
KAMLOOPS - A well known outreach facility in Kamloops is losing one of its most experienced members. Ken Salter started working with ASK Wellness 17 years ago, when the organization was referred to as...
Sep 01, 2017
Public urged to avoid using backcountry over the long weekend
KAMLOOPS - The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is urging the public to avoid using the backcountry over the long weekend. Officials say the wildfire risk remains extremely dangerous in t...
Sep 01, 2017
District says reopening schools to ease high enrollment not an easy process
KAMLOOPS - The Chair of the school district says reopening schools to try and solve the district’s high enrollment numbers isn’t an easy process. More than a dozen schools including Happyv...
Sep 01, 2017
Tiny House Warriors planning new way to stop Kinder Morgan
KAMLOOPS - It’s a different way of fighting a proposed pipeline expansion by Kinder Morgan. Members of the Secwepemc Nation are going to build ten “tiny Houses” directly in the path ...
Sep 01, 2017
School District calls on NDP to provide funding for more classrooms
KAMLOOPS - Ministry of Education stats show in the last 16 years Kamloops has received $10.7 million in funding. In the same time period, Kelowna has received almost ten times that amount, just under ...
Aug 31, 2017
Grieving families lean on each other on International Overdose Awareness Day
KAMLOOPS - Friends and family members gathered at Riverside Park this afternoon (Aug. 31) to celebrate the lives of their loved ones while having candid conversations about the tragic way those lives ...
Aug 31, 2017
Power restored to southwest Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - UDPATE: The power has been restored. EARLIER: BC Hydro service remains out for more than 1,000 customers in southwest Kamloops, and it could be until this evening before it is back on. The ...
Aug 31, 2017
Kamloops RCMP would like to hear your bull stories
KAMLOOPS - The bull that went missing from the Kamloops stockyard in Dallas last week has gained quite a following on social media. But Kamloops RCMP say that’s the problem. Cpl. Jodi Shelkie sa...
Aug 31, 2017
Former health minister Lake joins Quebec-based pot manufacturer
KAMLOOPS - Former Kamloops mayor and B.C. health minister Terry Lake is turning over a new leaf. Lake has been hired as an executive for a Quebec-based marijuana manufacturer. Hydropothecary Corporati...
Aug 30, 2017
School District 73 expected to fill more than 70 new teaching positions
KAMLOOPS - Students can expect to return to less crowded classrooms when school resumes next week. School District 73 officials have spent the greater part of the summer hiring on new full and part ti...
Aug 30, 2017
