Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops-Thompson School District believes it knows how to solve the problem of lead in the drinking water at several Kamloops-area schools. A slightly elevated lead level was first det...

KAMLOOPS - Canada’s Tournament Capital has beaten out several BC communities to become the next host of the Victoria International Buskers Festival. The popular Victoria festival has been called...

KAMLOOPS - The B.C. shooting community is shocked and saddened by the death of a Vancouver man at a Kamloops gun range on Sunday. “It’s a close knit community in the shooting fraternity, j...

KAMLOOPS - B.C. paramedics were wrapping up the inaugural BC Paramedic Memorial Ride this evening (Jun 12). Paramedics rode from Osoyoos to the Honour Ranch near Heffley Creek over four days. Today wa...

VICTORIA - The new BC Liberal cabinet has some Kamloops content, but not as much as prior to the election. Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone will return to his familiar post as Minister of Transp...

KAMLOOPS - The seasonal burning ban for the Kamloops Fire Centre will take effect this Thursday, June 15. That means all fires larger than a campfire – or a half-metre by a half-metre – wi...

KAMLOOPS - The BC River Forecast Centre has lifted the Flood Watch in place for the South Thompson River, placing the river on a High Streamflow Advisory. The move indicates the tension beginning to e...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Rural RCMP say a Tk’emlups resident is recovering from multiple stab wounds, allegedly suffered at the hands of his wife. Police say the man received the wounds Saturday nigh...

KAMLOOPS - A Vancouver man is dead after an accident at a Kamloops shooting competition. Kamloops RCMP say the man was participating in a pistol competition at the Kamloops Target Sports Shooting Comp...

KAMLOOPS - With only a week left in the BCAA Play Here contest, voting efforts are ramping up for Marion Schilling Elementary parents and staff. The top three B.C communities chosen in the voting cont...