Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Defense says Douglas Lake lacked proper licenses
KAMLOOPS - Cross-examination of the long-time general manager of the Douglas Lake Cattle Company wrapped up today at BC Supreme Court in Kamloops. Joe Gardner was questioned by defense, the Nicola Val...
Jan 23, 2017
Winter season relatively quiet for Kamloops Search and Rescue
KAMLOOPS - The winter season is shaping up to be a relatively quiet one for Kamloops Search and Rescue. Search Manager Alan Hobler says so far, the group’s been called to around half a dozen res...
Jan 22, 2017
Kamloops kids kick-off Unplug and Play Week with ABC Literacy Day
KAMLOOPS - It has become tradition in Kamloops. For over a decade the Kamloops Early Language and Literacy Initiative has partnered with the likes of the TNRD Library, the YMCA, Literacy in Kamloops, ...
Jan 21, 2017
Kamloops Women's March draws hundreds
KAMLOOPS - It was a response to the rhetoric of the 2016 presidential election cycle. The day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America, 'hundreds of thousa...
Jan 21, 2017
School District 73 begins process of filling 30 new teaching positions
KAMLOOPS, B.C - Relief is officially on the way for the Kamloops / Thompson School District. School District 73 Board Chair Meghan Wade says they’ve begun the first phase in hiring more than 30 ...
Jan 21, 2017
Health Minister's call to raise legal smoking age to 21 receives cloudy reviews
KAMLOOPS - It’s the number-one preventable form of death in B.C. “You look at cancer, heart disease, other vascular strokes, they’re all related to smoking,” said BC Health Min...
Jan 21, 2017
Baby boomer retirement leading to trade boom
KAMLOOPS - Admission numbers show trades have never been more popular at Thompson Rivers University. “We have probably grown 10 to 15% in the last few years,” said Baldev Pooni, Interim De...
Jan 20, 2017
Mail theft caught on camera
KAMLOOPS - The managers of the Glynnwood Terrace apartments on Hugh Allan Drive in Kamloops say they want the person who stole their tenants’ mail caught. The break-in and theft happened just af...
Jan 20, 2017
Kamloops makes a big splash on the big screen
KAMLOOPS - This is an exciting time for the local film industry, as recent large scale productions that have shot in the Kamloops area are being released. The family film Monster Trucks, which shot al...
Jan 20, 2017
Former Kamloops RCMP constable avoids jail time on drug charge
KAMLOOPS - The former Mountie who purchased cocaine on three separate occasions in June 2015 will not serve any jail time. 41-year-old Randi Love was at the Kamloops courthouse today to receive her se...
Jan 20, 2017
