Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Sun Peaks Resort delays opening day
SUN PEAKS, B.C. - Sun Peaks Resort is officially pushing back its winter opening date. The ski lifts were to begin operation this Saturday, but the resort says a new date will be announced shortly. Ac...
Nov 14, 2016
Two Kamloops businesses hit by heartless poppy thefts
KAMLOOPS - Police are looking into two separate reports last week of a heartless thief taking poppy donation money from local businesses. Cpl. Jodi Shelkie says both incidents took place last Monday, ...
Nov 14, 2016
Mother mourns loss of son to fatal fentanyl related overdose
KAMLOOPS - Valdine Wilbur’s world changed in an instant when her only son, Tyler Laybolt, died of a drug overdose in Kamloops on Nov. 6. Wilbur, who lives in Edmonton, was at a dinner with famil...
Nov 13, 2016
Youth to learn about fentanyl crisis at educational workshop
KAMLOOPS - The Tk’emlups Indian Band and Thompson Rivers University social work students have joined forces to organize a workshop teaching youth about the dangers of fentanyl. Dave Manuel is a ...
Nov 12, 2016
Kamloops Remembers
KAMLOOPS - Hundreds of Kamloops residents joined veterans, current members of the Canadian Armed Forces, and first responders from the city at Riverside Park this morning, to take part in Remembrance ...
Nov 11, 2016
Bepple to be acclaimed for the NDP in Kamloops-South Thompson
KAMLOOPS - We now know who the BC NDP candidate will be in Kamloops-South Thompson during next spring’s election campaign. When the 5:00 p.m. deadline for nominations passed this afternoon, only...
Nov 10, 2016
World War II veteran recounts time with Dutch Resistance
KAMLOOPS - In a time when Nazi Germany occupied his country, Jake Van Staalduinen risked his life to provide information to the citizens of The Hague, Holland. The former underground newspaper publish...
Nov 10, 2016
BC mogul says Trump's business sense will help him govern
KAMLOOPS - Western Canada’s most famous self-made billionaire says if Donald Trump can run a business empire, he can run a country. Jim Pattison owns Canada’s second largest private compan...
Nov 10, 2016
Veteran UN Peacekeeper shares experience with Kamloops students
KAMLOOPS - Students at Marion Schilling Elementary School were greeted by a special guest today. Captain Mike Young, a veteran who served in the Canadian Army addressed students at the school’s ...
Nov 10, 2016
Supreme Court backs B.C. teachers’ right to bargain class sizes
KAMLOOPS - The president of the Kamloops-Thompson Teachers Association says the Supreme Court of Canada ruling that restores class size and composition to bargaining between teachers and the province ...
Nov 10, 2016
