Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Habitat for Humanity seeking two families for Homeownership Program
KAMLOOPS - Habitat for Humanity is getting ready to select two families to be part of the Homeownership Program for their next project. Habitat for Humanity focuses on building affordable housing, to ...
Oct 18, 2016
BC SPCA calls sentence for Kamloops dog killer "ridiculous"
KAMLOOPS - The BC SPCA says a sentence handed down to a Kamloops man who beat his family Chihuahua to death with a fence post is “ridiculous.” Christopher Mathes was given a 12-month condi...
Oct 18, 2016
Conservation officers remind hunters to clean up properly
KAMLOOPS - The BC Conservation Officer Service is reminding hunters when they are disposing of carcasses, to keep them away from the public. The message comes after a passerby came across a pile of go...
Oct 18, 2016
Kamloops missionary in Haiti says hurricane damage worse than first thought
LES CAYES, HAITI - A Kamloops man who works as a missionary in Haiti says, nearly two weeks after Hurricane Matthew hit the island nation, the devastation is worse than first thought. Rod Wray says th...
Oct 18, 2016
Opposition says government not taking softwood concerns seriously
KAMLOOPS - If the Trudeau Liberals don’t take softwood lumber problems seriously, Canada will be the big loser in the long run. The U.S. and Canada are talking to try and renew the expired softw...
Oct 18, 2016
Spooky steam train ready to roll
KAMLOOPS - It’s a tradition at this time of year in Kamloops, the 2141 Locomotive is getting ready to fire up for the Halloween season. There are big plans in place this year for the Ghost Train...
Oct 17, 2016
Information sessions garner support for first ever RCMP union
KAMLOOPS - It has been a long-fought battle for the right to collectively bargain with the government. Since the 1960’s the RCMP has been barred from forming a union and has remained the only po...
Oct 17, 2016
Cattlemen concerned about recent rustling cases
KAMLOOPS - The general manager of the BC Cattlemen’s Association says poaching incidents like the one reported in the Westsyde area over the weekend are more common than the general public belie...
Oct 17, 2016
SD73 Chair Harper on VSB firing: no room in public education for party politics
KAMLOOPS - The Board of Education chair for the Kamloops-Thompson School District says she takes no pleasure in hearing the democratically-elected Vancouver school board has been fired by Education Mi...
Oct 17, 2016
Economic downturn in Alberta drops Kamloops Airport numbers
KAMLOOPS - The downturn in the northern Alberta economy has hit the Kamloops Airport once again. New numbers show a 1.9 per cent dip in passenger travel through Fulton Field last month, compared to Se...
Oct 17, 2016
