Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Be aware, bears are back for the season
KAMLOOPS - The bear situation in Kamloops is calm now, but experts say as the fruit on our trees ripens and dries, more bruins will make their way down into the city. With that, wildlife officials are...
Jun 29, 2016
Students, teachers bid farewell to school for the summer
KAMLOOPS - Students in Kamloops spent the day cleaning out lockers, saying goodbye to classmates, and dreaming of summer vacation plans on the last day of school. With excitement and a few tearful goo...
Jun 29, 2016
BC Cattlemen's celebrates Mexico reopening beef market
KAMLOOPS - Mexico will fully re-open its market to Canadian beef imports this fall, meaning Canada’s farmers will have valuable new customers for their mature cattle. After BSE was detected in 2...
Jun 29, 2016
Police investigating early morning assault in Westsyde
KAMLOOPS - RCMP are investigating after a frightening assault in Westsyde early this morning. Investigators say a resident of the 3200 block of Westsyde Road awoke at about 4:15 to a noise outside. Wh...
Jun 29, 2016
Beattie students bid farewell to McGill campus
KAMLOOPS - Today was the last day of classes for students and staff at Beattie School of the Arts. After 12 years, teachers are packing up their classrooms and preparing to move down the hill, to join...
Jun 28, 2016
Kamloops neighbours describe turbulent turban river rescue
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops man is being credited for quick thinking in the face of cultural taboos that saved a woman adrift in the North Thompson River Saturday. Paul Hothi and his father Avtar were worki...
Jun 28, 2016
Students say final goodbyes to Stuart Wood
KAMLOOPS - Stuart Wood Elementary is officially closed, marking the end of an era that lasted 109 years. A final assembly in the confines of the gym at Stuart Wood, no longer fit for modern education....
Jun 28, 2016
Kamloops quilters offer hand-crafted quilts for Fort Mac residents
KAMLOOPS - The residents of Fort McMurray continue to clean up and take stock of their lives after the forest fire which devastated the community last month. It seems there are efforts to help the com...
Jun 28, 2016
Veterans honoured at Legion luncheon
KAMLOOPS - Veterans and their families in Kamloops, were honoured at a special luncheon Tuesday afternoon. Soup, sandwiches and drinks were on the menu at the Royal Canada Legion’s annual lunch ...
Jun 28, 2016
B.C. Greens plan to run candidates in both Kamloops ridings
KAMLOOPS - The BC Green Party did not run candidates in the two Kamloops ridings during the last provincial election in 2013. That won’t be the same story next year. Greens held an organizationa...
Jun 28, 2016
