Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Wildfire recovery manager to help homeowners rebuild
KAMLOOPS - More than two-hundred homes were partially or completed destroyed in the Thompson Nicola Regional District after this summer’s record-breaking wildfire season. With a large portion of...
Nov 9, 2017
Highway 5A to be closed between Merritt and Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Motorists take note: the Quilchena Bridge on Highway 5A will be fully closed to traffic on Nov. 14 and 16 for bridge maintenance. The bridge, which is 25 kilometres north of Merritt, will b...
Nov 9, 2017
New shuttle bus service from North Shore to Stuart Wood
KAMLOOPS - Members of the North Shore’s most vulnerable population now have an easier way to access cold weather shelters in Kamloops. This as Glenn Hilke, volunteer coordinator with local non-p...
Nov 9, 2017
Ranta re-elected chair of TNRD board
KAMLOOPS - John Ranta has been re-elected chair of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District. The Cache Creek mayor beat out lone challenger, Area “I” Director Steven Rice, at today’s re...
Nov 9, 2017
'Now is the time': Blazers owner feels Kamloops deserves another Memorial Cup
KAMLOOPS - Blazers majority owner Tom Gaglardi says 25 years after the team last hosted the Memorial Cup in 1995, now is the perfect time to go after another such event. “We think now is the tim...
Nov 9, 2017
SPCA seizes horses from Shuswap Road property
KAMLOOPS - Several horses were seized from a Tk’emlups property this morning as part of an ongoing SPCA investigation. “This is a file that we’ve been working for some time,” s...
Nov 9, 2017
Blazers, City of Kamloops bid to host 2020 Memorial Cup
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers have announced their intention to host the 2020 Memorial Cup. The junior hockey club has announced a joint bid, along with the City of Kamloops, to host the tournament....
Nov 9, 2017
SAR crews rescue driver from crash near McLure
BARRIERE, B.C. - Barriere Search and Rescue volunteers were needed to extract a patient from a crash near the community last night. The crash took place near McClure, and Acting Barriere SAR President...
Nov 9, 2017
Authorities look to identify credit card thief
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Crime Stoppers hopes you will recognize the woman shown in this photo. She’s a suspect in the use of a stolen credit card in Kamloops. The organization says the card was cont...
Nov 9, 2017
Kamloops educator wins national award
KAMLOOPS - A major achievement for a Kamloops educator. Beth Dye, vice-principal at Twin Rivers Education Centre, has won the Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s Geographic Literacy Award for ...
Nov 9, 2017
