Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Power restored to southwest Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - UDPATE: The power has been restored. EARLIER: BC Hydro service remains out for more than 1,000 customers in southwest Kamloops, and it could be until this evening before it is back on. The ...
Aug 31, 2017
Kamloops RCMP would like to hear your bull stories
KAMLOOPS - The bull that went missing from the Kamloops stockyard in Dallas last week has gained quite a following on social media. But Kamloops RCMP say that’s the problem. Cpl. Jodi Shelkie sa...
Aug 31, 2017
Former health minister Lake joins Quebec-based pot manufacturer
KAMLOOPS - Former Kamloops mayor and B.C. health minister Terry Lake is turning over a new leaf. Lake has been hired as an executive for a Quebec-based marijuana manufacturer. Hydropothecary Corporati...
Aug 30, 2017
School District 73 expected to fill more than 70 new teaching positions
KAMLOOPS - Students can expect to return to less crowded classrooms when school resumes next week. School District 73 officials have spent the greater part of the summer hiring on new full and part ti...
Aug 30, 2017
Kamloops welcomes new doctors through Practice Ready Assessment program
KAMLOOPS - For years, offices at the NorKam Healthcare Centre sat empty, with no physicians available to fill the spaces left behind by retiring doctors. But with three new doctors being brought in ov...
Aug 30, 2017
Demolition beginning, Daily News knockdown to start by end of week
KAMLOOPS - The demolition has started downtown, but taking the former Kamloops Daily News building down brick by brick won’t begin until the end of the week. Since Monday, an excavator has been ...
Aug 30, 2017
Grass fire on East Shuswap Road quickly doused
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue crews rushed to douse a fire that sparked on the Tk’emlups Reserve this morning. The grass fire was called in at about 11:50 a.m., in the 600-block of East Shuswa...
Aug 30, 2017
Scheer has plum spot for McLeod in shadow cabinet
KAMLOOPS - Newly-minted Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is visiting the Kamloops area today, and making news while he’s here. Scheer will address a Kamloops Chamber of Commerce small business ...
Aug 30, 2017
Smoke lingering in Kamloops visited Russia before returning to BC
KAMLOOPS - Thick smoke has returned to the Thompson valleys, causing a return to breathing difficulties for those with respiratory sensitivity. Fire Information Officer Claire Allen says the smoke ori...
Aug 30, 2017
RCMP Musical Ride trots into Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The RCMP Musical Ride has arrived in town with shows on Tuesday and Wednesday evening for people in Kamloops to see. A tradition since 1876, the first known performance, it gives the RCMP h...
Aug 29, 2017
