Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

Honour House provides respite for recovering emergency responders
KAMLOOPS - It’s a home away from home. The Honour House is a place where emergency first responders and military members can stay when they or their family are receiving medical treatment and ne...
Kayla Derkach Jun 13, 2016

United Church to host candlelight vigil for Orlando victims
KAMLOOPS - The LGBTQ community in Kamloops, like many across the globe, are grieving, devastated by the murders in Orlando on Saturday night. They are left with a vulnerable feeling after 49 people we...
Kayla Derkach Jun 13, 2016

Mitch Harlock's legacy lives on through bursary
KAMLOOPS - A Norkam Secondary student has been awarded a bursary, honouring a Kamloops teenager who lost his battle with cancer. The Kamloops Firefighters Charitable Society has awarded bursaries in m...
Kayla Derkach Jun 13, 2016

Kamloops Keg location to close
KAMLOOPS - The Keg Restaurants says its decision to close its Kamloops location was a difficult one. But, in a news release, the company says it’s Kamloops franchise owners don’t want to b...
Kayla Derkach Jun 13, 2016

Garage destroyed in Barnhartvale fire
KAMLOOPS - A garage was destroyed in an early morning fire in Barnhartvale, but the adjacent home was spared and noone was hurt. KFR’s Steve Kilmartin says they were called to the home at 6108 M...
Kayla Derkach Jun 13, 2016

Kamloops Relay for Life raises $37,000
KAMLOOPS - An event celebrating cancer survivors and raising money for those still in the battle was held Saturday, June 11, in Kamloops. This year’s Relay for Life celebrated more than 50 survi...
Kayla Derkach Jun 12, 2016

Kamloops Pride mourns for victims of Orlando shooting
KAMLOOPS - The horrific shooting and hostage taking at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, FL early this morning, June 12, has shocked and devastated many in the U.S. and around the world. Fifty peopl...
Kayla Derkach Jun 12, 2016

Kamloops remembers Len Marchand
KAMLOOPS - Despite the grey skies, and occasional rain, hundreds gathered at a public memorial service for former Member of Parliament, federal cabinet minister, and Senator, Len Marchand, who passed ...
Kayla Derkach Jun 11, 2016

Health Minister seeks fewer barriers to safe injection sites
KAMLOOPS - B.C.’s Health Minister would like to see fewer restrictions in place for setting up safe injection sites. Terry Lake says the former federal government’s Respect for Communities...
Kayla Derkach Jun 11, 2016

Agitated man taken down by police taser
KAMLOOPS - A 46-year-old man is in custody after an altercation with Kamloops RCMP. Shortly after 9 p.m. last night, June 10, officers witnessed a man swinging a large wooden walking staff and yelling...
Kayla Derkach Jun 11, 2016

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