Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has declared a state of local emergency due to damage to the South Thompson River bank near Thompson Drive in Valleyview. Officials aren’t sure what caused the da...

KAMLOOPS - Worksafe BC has fined a Vancouver-based contracting firm for safety violations that led to a man’s death following a fall at a Kamloops construction site. On November 25, 2016, 45 yea...

KAMLOOPS - Starting Friday, the Norkam Health Centre’s walk-in clinic won’t be accepting any new patients. Every day, the centre sees up to a dozen patients they’ve never seen before...

KAMLOOPS - March is Kidney Health Month. Even though the month is drawing to a close, the more than 36,000 Canadian being treated for kidney failure won’t simply forget their health concerns whe...

KAMLOOPS - The clock is ticking once again on the KGHM-Ajax environmental review. Project Assessment Manager Tracy James of the BC Environmental Assessment Office says the 180-day review process, whic...

KAMLOOPS - Nearly six months after the Ministry of Health opened up the 8-1-1 Health Line to connect Kamloops residents with incoming doctors - hundreds have already been matched. Health Minister Terr...

SUN PEAKS, B.C. - Children living in the Sun Peaks area will get a chance to stay close to home for school a little longer. According to a report coming to the Kamloops-Thompson School District Board ...

KAMLOOPS - Police indicate the male involved has identified himself and come forward. EARLIER: RCMP are trying to track down a man who allegedly groped a woman in a North Shore store nearly two months...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say they’ve shut down a North Shore home that was a base of operations for street-level drug dealing. Cpl. Jodi Shelkie says the home in the 400-block of Alexander Avenu...

KAMLOOPS - With Kamloops seeing the fifth-highest rate of fentanyl-related overdose deaths in the province in the first two months of this year, it’s clear there’s still a long way to go w...