Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Students get close-up look at dangers of fentanyl
KAMLOOPS - The fentanyl crisis has hit home in Kamloops. There have been 31 overdose deaths as of the end of October The Tk’emlups Indian Band has taken notice, and on Tuesday night, in partners...
Nov 16, 2016
Kamloops Chamber issues report card for city council
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops council gets critiques from all across the community, and now has an official evaluation from the city’s chamber of commerce. The chamber has graded council based on four cat...
Nov 16, 2016
Police warn Sun Rivers residents after rash of thefts
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Rural RCMP have a warning for Sun Rivers residents. Officers say since Monday, a pair of thieves have been going through vehicles in the community, regardless of whether those vehi...
Nov 16, 2016
RCMP say drunken man was throwing rocks from the roof of North Shore car wash
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say a man displaying odd and destructive behaviour last night is being held in cells until he sobers up. Officers were called to the Robo Car Wash on Tranquille Road just afte...
Nov 16, 2016
Train hits pickup truck in downtown Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say no one was injured after a train traveling the CP tracks downtown last night hit a vehicle. Police say the train engineer noticed a Dodge pickup truck partly on the tracks...
Nov 16, 2016
Growing need: Food Bank use increasing
KAMLOOPS - A new report from Food Banks Canada shows food bank usage in Canada, as well as specifically in BC, is at an all time high. Bernadette Siracky of the Kamloops Food Bank says that is consist...
Nov 15, 2016
'Mamma Mia' sure to be a hit for Western Canada Theatre
KAMLOOPS - Western Canada Theatre is preparing to lift the curtain on this year’s holiday production – the jukebox musical ‘Mamma Mia’. The media got a sneak peak of the smash ...
Nov 15, 2016
Kamloops experiences first dose of winter
KAMLOOPS - Parts of Kamloops awoke to the first snowfall of the season. Residents in Aberdeen and higher parts of Barnhartvale and Juniper Ridge got around two centimetres of the white stuff. Matt Mac...
Nov 15, 2016
Residents get to talk budget with City Hall
KAMLOOPS - Residents of Kamloops get their first chance to see what might be in store in next year’s budget tonight. The Let’s Talk budget meeting runs from 7-9 PM at the Parkside Lounge i...
Nov 15, 2016
Fatal accident on Trans-Canada Highway near Kokanee Way
KAMLOOPS – Shortly after 8:40 p.m. emergency officials responded to a single vehicle rollover in the 7400 block of the East Trans-Canada Highway. RCMP Sgt. Darren Michels stated in a news releas...
Nov 14, 2016
