Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

Not all Kamloops businesses embracing liquor law changes
KAMLOOPS - It's another step in the BC Liberal's loosing of provincial liquor laws – today, an updated Liquor Control and Licensing Act took effect, that the government says will create new oppo...
Kayla Derkach Jan 23, 2017

MLA Stone says grocery store wine sales comply with NAFTA regulations
KAMLOOPS - Save-On Foods has been selling wine at its Sahali location since October, after a lengthy struggle to get a variance passed that would allow for wine sales within the store. Now, the U.S. i...
Kayla Derkach Jan 23, 2017

Portable air quality stations yield interesting data
KAMLOOPS - A Thompson Rivers University professor studying air quality in Kamloops says portable air quality stations set up last fall are already yielding interesting results. Dr. Michael Mehta says ...
Kayla Derkach Jan 23, 2017

Defense says Douglas Lake lacked proper licenses
KAMLOOPS - Cross-examination of the long-time general manager of the Douglas Lake Cattle Company wrapped up today at BC Supreme Court in Kamloops. Joe Gardner was questioned by defense, the Nicola Val...
Kayla Derkach Jan 23, 2017

Winter season relatively quiet for Kamloops Search and Rescue
KAMLOOPS - The winter season is shaping up to be a relatively quiet one for Kamloops Search and Rescue. Search Manager Alan Hobler says so far, the group’s been called to around half a dozen res...
Kayla Derkach Jan 22, 2017

Kamloops kids kick-off Unplug and Play Week with ABC Literacy Day
KAMLOOPS - It has become tradition in Kamloops. For over a decade the Kamloops Early Language and Literacy Initiative has partnered with the likes of the TNRD Library, the YMCA, Literacy in Kamloops, ...
Kayla Derkach Jan 21, 2017

Kamloops Women's March draws hundreds
KAMLOOPS - It was a response to the rhetoric of the 2016 presidential election cycle. The day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America, 'hundreds of thousa...
Kayla Derkach Jan 21, 2017

School District 73 begins process of filling 30 new teaching positions
KAMLOOPS, B.C - Relief is officially on the way for the Kamloops / Thompson School District. School District 73 Board Chair Meghan Wade says they’ve begun the first phase in hiring more than 30 ...
Kayla Derkach Jan 21, 2017

Health Minister's call to raise legal smoking age to 21 receives cloudy reviews
KAMLOOPS - It’s the number-one preventable form of death in B.C. “You look at cancer, heart disease, other vascular strokes, they’re all related to smoking,” said BC Health Min...
Kayla Derkach Jan 21, 2017

Baby boomer retirement leading to trade boom
KAMLOOPS - Admission numbers show trades have never been more popular at Thompson Rivers University. “We have probably grown 10 to 15% in the last few years,” said Baldev Pooni, Interim De...
Kayla Derkach Jan 20, 2017

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