Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops schools fundraising for Nicaraguans living in dump
KAMLOOPS – Three schools across the Kamloops-Thompson school district are fundraising to help a community in Nicaragua living in a garbage dump. It’s hard to imagine for many, but a commun...
Jan 26, 2016
Local physicians group says Ajax poses health risk
KAMLOOPS - It has been one week since KGHM-Ajax submitted an application to the BC Environmental Assessment Office, in its quest to gain approval for the proposal copper-gold mine, south of Kamloops. ...
Jan 26, 2016
Kamloops RCMP investigate suspicious death
KAMLOOPS - RCMP are remaining tight-lipped about a suspicious death this morning in Valleyview. Police investigators descended on the 4 Seasons Motel, where a 49-year-old man was found dead at about 1...
Jan 26, 2016
Corporal J.R. Michaud returns to duty
KAMLOOPS - More than a year after he was shot and seriously wounded in a traffic stop, Kamloops RCMP Corporal J.R. Michaud is back on the job. Superintendent Brad Mueller says Michaud has returned to ...
Jan 26, 2016
Powder scare at Kamloops main post office
KAMLOOPS - Officials have confirmed the source of a white powder that caused a stir at the postal depot on Dalhousie Drive last night was baked goods. The powder burst from a parcel and onto a postal ...
Jan 26, 2016
Accident sends one to RIH Tuesday morning
KAMLOOPS - RCMP are investigating a single vehicle accident Tuesday morning on Highland Drive in Valleyview. It happened just after 2:30 in the morning near the Valleyview Arena, when the pickup left ...
Jan 26, 2016
No new details on Kamloops homicide
KAMLOOPS - Still no further details into the city’s first homicide of 2016. A 30-year-old man died in hospital Friday night after an incident in the 400-block of Tranquille Road. Police have not...
Jan 25, 2016
Living with Alzheimer's disease
KAMLOOPS - It’s a disease that carries with it quite a stigma. “When you make a joke about alzheimer’s disease you don’t allow a person with the disease to be taken seriously,&...
Jan 25, 2016
Kamloops families 'Unplug and Play' at Literacy Day
KAMLOOPS - Since 1999, January 27th has been ABC Family Literacy Day in Canada. As an early celebration of the the occasion, Kamloops Early Language And Literacy Initiative held it's 10th annual 'Unpl...
Jan 25, 2016
B.C. high court rejects appeal from Kamloops driver in deadly crash
VANCOUVER - A 54-year-old pickup driver who survived a crash in Kamloops, B.C., that killed his two passengers nearly six years ago has lost an appeal of his convictions for dangerous driving causing ...
Jan 25, 2016
