Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

City emergency support workers practice mock evacuation
KAMLOOPS - Emergency service teams from throughout the Kamloops region came together this weekend to practice a mock emergency evacuation. The City of Kamloops Emergency support service teams, the Cit...
Kayla Derkach Mar 05, 2017

RCMP to update fatal hit and run in Aberdeen last November
KAMLOOPS - We will get an update this morning in the case of a teenager killed while waiting for a bus in Aberdeen last November. 16-year old Jennifer Gatey was killed November 4th while waiting for a...
Kayla Derkach Mar 05, 2017

Missing snowboarder at Sun Peaks found uninjured
KAMLOOPS - The search for a missing snowboarder at Sun Peaks has ended on a good note. TK’emlups Rural RCMP received report of a missing 19-year-old man Alberta man just after 5:30 p.m. Saturday...
Kayla Derkach Mar 05, 2017

Interior Health opens second phase of Primary Care Services clinic
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health has now opened the new Interior Health Primary Care Services clinic on Kamloops’ North Shore. The first floor clinic was opened Friday by Health Minister Terry Lake an...
Kayla Derkach Mar 04, 2017

Bomb scare forces evacuation of restaurant
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops restaurant had to be evacuated for over an hour this morning while police searched for a possible bomb. The Aberdeen McDonald’s on Hugh Allan Drive received a call around 1...
Kayla Derkach Mar 04, 2017

Conservative leadership hopeful Erin O'Toole visits Kamloops
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Conservative leadership candidate and Ontario MP Erin O’Toole was in Kamloops Saturday speaking to party members and voters ahead of the leadership vote May 27th. The event, hel...
Kayla Derkach Mar 04, 2017

Two missing teens found safe and sound
UPDATED: Kamloops RCMP say the two teens were found safe and sound Saturday night. EARLIER STORY: KAMLOOPS - Kamloops and Chase RCMP are seeking the public’s help in finding two teenage girls. 1...
Kayla Derkach Mar 04, 2017

Trump effect on B.C lumber a waiting game for Liberals
MERRITT, B.C. - Premier Christy Clark says it’s a waiting game when it comes to the exact effect the Trump administration will have on B.C’s logging industry. Speaking at a press event in ...
Kayla Derkach Mar 04, 2017

SSN gives a resounding 'no' to KGHM Ajax mine project
KAMLOOPS - The Stk'emlpsemc te Secwpemc Nation, known as the SSN, has voted against the proposed KGHM Ajax mine project. After completing its own environmental review of the project, Chief Fred Seymou...
Kayla Derkach Mar 04, 2017

TRU graduates cashing in on tourism industry
KAMLOOPS - Tourism is quickly becoming the ‘go-to’ industry for TRU graduates. With 12 tourism-related companies at this year’s TRU job fair, career counselor Larry Iles says more st...
Kayla Derkach Mar 04, 2017

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