Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
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
Chair of TRU Board of Governors says faculty has "a lot of participation"
KAMLOOPS - Two days after learning that 81% of the faculty at Thompson Rivers University have no confidence in school administration, the chair of the TRU Board of Governors says it’s time to fi...
Apr 21, 2016
Kamloops fire hall legal suit dismissed
KAMLOOPS - The BC Court of Appeal has dismissed a suit leveled against the City of Kamloops by a local construction company that was denied an opportunity to build the new fire hall in Aberdeen. In 20...
Apr 21, 2016
Hundreds gather at Riverside Park for Kamloops 4/20
KAMLOOPS - It was a smoky scene at Riverside Park today as marijuana lovers came out to celebrate 4/20. The event happens every year on April 20, as pot users rally for the legalization of the drug. W...
Apr 20, 2016
