Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

Teck Resources announces Highland Valley Copper workforce reduction
The flagging price of copper has hit close to home. Teck Resources has announced plans to trim six percent of its workforce at Highland Valley Copper in Logan Lake. That could result in as many as 80 ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 05, 2015

Demand for health-care workers will be fastest-growing
Nursing students are the future of health care, the fastest-growing demand in the Thompson-Cariboo region in the next 10 years. A labour market study, released Friday by Venture Kamloops, reveals that...
Kayla Derkach Nov 05, 2015

Guilty Pleas in Archie LePretre Murder
KAMLOOPS - A surprise out of the Kamloops courthouse this afternoon. The two men charged in the brutal 2011 stabbing death of Archie LePretre in a Kamloops schoolyard have pleaded guilty to second deg...
Kayla Derkach Nov 04, 2015

Big-horned sheep ready for mating season
KAMLOOPS - In the grasslands above Kamloops Lake, the rams are trying everything and anything to woo the ewes. They’re ready to mate and grow the herd. “The rams follow the ewes around and...
Kayla Derkach Nov 04, 2015

Overlanders Bridge now open to 4 lanes
After six months of reconstruction, and rain delays that threatened to postpone the projected opening date, the Overlanders Bridge has re-opened to four lanes of traffic. All four lanes were open to t...
Kayla Derkach Nov 02, 2015

Woman dies after assault in Care Home
The BC Coroners Service has confirmed another resident of a Kamloops care home has died after being attacked by a fellow resident. 84-year-old Emily Houston died on July 15th, 10 days after she was pu...
Kayla Derkach Nov 02, 2015

Robbery at Westsyde Cooper's
RCMP looking for a thief or thieves who broke into the Cooper’s store in Westsyde early this morning. RCMP say they responded about 2:30 this morning to a reported breakin at the store in the We...
Kayla Derkach Nov 02, 2015

Mountain passes see first significant snowfall
Environment Canada called for it, and it came. Snow was falling on most major highway passes over the weekend. 15 to 20 centimetres of snow was reported on the Highway 5 (Coquihalla) and Highway 97 (O...
Kayla Derkach Nov 02, 2015

TRU Vice President named in civil suit
A former Kamloops strip club owner is suing Thompson Rivers University’s Vice President of Advancement after an alleged 2013 dog attack. Christine Rae, who owned the Rendezvous Hotel before it c...
Kayla Derkach Oct 30, 2015

Kamloops band Van Damsel into Top 3 in Peak Performance Project
Sebastien Ste Marie, lead singer of Van Damsel, breathed a heavy sigh of relief when judges announced Van Damsel as the final band in the top three of the Peak Performance Project. “Feeling reli...
Kayla Derkach Oct 30, 2015

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