Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
TRU International students baffled at Trump's travel ban
KAMLOOPS - Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on Friday that has banned immigrants from seven countries, protests have erupted across the globe. The same concerns heard arou...
Jan 30, 2017
Drug related crimes spike in Kamloops in 2016
KAMLOOPS - RCMP received nearly 43,000 calls for service in 2016, almost 12,000 of those calls were recorded in the fourth quarter. Crimes against property were up more than 10 per cent from the same ...
Jan 30, 2017
Kamloops Library looking to modernize downtown location
KAMLOOPS - Libraries are institutions in society which have existed for millennia. Here in Kamloops, the downtown library on the corner of 5th and Victoria St. has been around since 1998, and the TNRD...
Jan 30, 2017
Kamloops parents to have say on student progress reporting
KAMLOOPS - Parents will be meeting with Ministry of Education Staff in Kamloops tonight to discuss the future of student progress reporting. A new curriculum for B.C. students was announced last May. ...
Jan 30, 2017
TRU professor opening arms to those affected by travel ban
KAMLOOPS - A TRU history professor, who has a dual citizenship in Canada and the U.S., has been watching in awe from afar as Donald Trump enacts these executive orders. He now wants to help any studen...
Jan 30, 2017
Gender equality focus of Kamloops third annual indoor triathlon
KAMLOOPS - Competition was fun but fierce at the Tournament Capital Centre Sunday where more than 80 people hit the water, bike, and track for B.C’s only mixed-team indoor triathlon. “This...
Jan 29, 2017
Nederpel ramps up campaign with 100 days until provincial election
KAMLOOPS - With exactly 100 days to go until the B.C. provincial election, efforts are ramping up for Kamloops NDP candidates. On Saturday South-Thompson NDP candidate Nancy Bepple and volunteers spen...
Jan 29, 2017
Kamloops "Unplugs and Plays" at the Big Little Science Centre
KAMLOOPS - Literacy can take many forms, and spans wide variety of disciplines. this weekend, the big little science centre held an event as part of the interior savings unplug and play week, which wa...
Jan 28, 2017
B.C. judge sentences two men who attacked RCMP officer to house arrest
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Two men who attacked a Mountie during a traffic stop and left him unconscious on the side of a rural road near Pritchard, B.C., won't be going to jail. Despite calling Leon Leclerc an...
Jan 28, 2017
Clock hands installed on Memorial Hill Cenotaph
KAMLOOPS - It’s been a project that’s been ongoing for the better part of a year, and finally the hand of the Memorial Hill Cenotaph clocks have been installed. The final pieces of the fou...
Jan 27, 2017
