Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops teen urging peers to talk about organ donation
KAMLOOPS - It’s National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week, and a Kamloops teen who received a heart transplant as an infant is trying to educate her peers on the importance of organ donatio...
Apr 22, 2016
Technology a focus at Canadian Council for the Blind Conference
KAMLOOPS - Training and opportunity are two important factors in how people find meaningful work; they're also two factors keeping blind and visually impaired individuals from obtaining employment. Th...
Apr 22, 2016
Ants go marching in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - A Thompson Rivers University instructor says he thinks he knows why Kamloops residents are seeing so many carpenter ants this spring. Rob Higgins is an assistant professor in TRU’s De...
Apr 22, 2016
School District 73 facing big budget shortfall
KAMLOOPS - School District 73 is looking at yet another multi-million dollar budget shortfall. The district presented its budget to the public in an information session yesterday, and Superintendent K...
Apr 22, 2016
Marking 65 Years since the Battle of Kapyong
KAMLOOPS - Canadian soldiers who fought in what is recognized as a turning point in the Korean War, have landed in the country’s capital city of Seoul, to mark the 65th anniversary of the Battle...
Apr 21, 2016
Wait times at RIH expected to drop with new anesthesiologists
KAMLOOPS - It’s been a frustrating few years for surgeons and patients at Royal Inland Hospital. There have been many cancelled surgeries, despite having an available operating room, which has s...
Apr 21, 2016
Six confirmed fentanyl overdoses in Kamloops in one day
KAMLOOPS - Health Minister Terry Lake says there have been a spate of fentanyl overdoses in Kamloops over the past few hours. Lake says no fewer than six people have overdosed on the drug. He notes ea...
Apr 21, 2016
Loser robs Winners
KAMLOOPS - The store is called ‘Winners,’ but a man who robbed the store yesterday certainly doesn’t fit that description. Kamloops RCMP say during the noon hour yesterday, store emp...
Apr 21, 2016
Kamloops girl dies after battling cancer
KAMLOOPS - A sad update to a story we first brought you two years ago. Sam Donovan, the six year old Kamloops girl fighting a rare form of cancer, passed away this morning. Sam was first diagnosed wit...
Apr 21, 2016
High temperatures bring about high streamflow advisory
KAMLOOPS - Record-breaking heat has led to concerns over river levels. A high streamflow advisory was issued Wednesday for the Southern Interior. Dave Campbell with the BC River Forecast Centre said t...
Apr 21, 2016
