Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

Kamloops hockey community pushing for another ice surface
KAMLOOPS - Part of the city’s plan to build a leisure centre at McArthur Island would be constructing another sheet of ice in Brocklehurst, in place of the outdoor pool. The hockey community has...
Kayla Derkach Mar 10, 2016

North Shore residents mixed on proposed McArthur Island pool
KAMLOOPS - Residents spoke passionately about their communities, but the mood inside NorKam Secondary on Wednesday night was noticeably more welcoming for City of Kamloops staff, which garnered at lea...
Kayla Derkach Mar 09, 2016

One day after her birthday a Kamloops girl was given only days to live
KAMLOOPS - A young Kamloops girl is saying her final goodbyes to loved ones after recently relapsing from a rare form of cancer called Burkitts Leukemia . Sam Donovan celebrated her sixth birthday las...
Kayla Derkach Mar 09, 2016

Man pulled from North Thompson River
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP and Kamloops Fire Rescue pulled a man from the North Thompson River this afternoon. The man was spotted just before 3 pm, in the river near Schubert Drive and Juniper Avenue. ...
Kayla Derkach Mar 09, 2016

Mattress thief caught on camera
KAMLOOPS - The managers of Penny Pinchers on Fortune Drive is wondering how a local thief can sleep at night after stealing a mattress Monday evening. Video surveillance shows the man casing the store...
Kayla Derkach Mar 09, 2016

Criminal activity frightens Westsyde neighbourhood
KAMLOOPS - A Westsyde neighbourhood is on high alert after a police take-down outside a home on Sandpiper Driver last night (March 8). Residents say this is just the latest in a string of recent crimi...
Kayla Derkach Mar 09, 2016

Victim of longboard attack not receiving medical coverage
MACKENZIE, B.C. - A man who was attacked by a teen with a longboard three years ago in Brocklehurst says the province’s Crime Victim Assistance Program is failing him. Michael Forry, who now liv...
Kayla Derkach Mar 09, 2016

Hit and run leaves damage to North Shore apartment
KAMLOOPS - The Chateau Garden Apartments on Knox Street in North Kamloops look a bit the worse for wear this morning after a full size white van smacked into it last night. The van caused extensive da...
Kayla Derkach Mar 09, 2016

Police investigating suspicious encounter in Upper Sahali
KAMLOOPS - Police are investigating a report of a suspicious male who approached a 17-year-old female yesterday afternoon in Sahali. The encounter happened in the area of Springview Place and Springhi...
Kayla Derkach Mar 08, 2016

City of Kamloops open to ideas for former Daily News site
KAMLOOPS - When the proposed performing arts centre for downtown Kamloops was voted down last year, Mayor Peter Milobar said there was no ‘Plan B’ for the former Kamloops Daily News proper...
Kayla Derkach Mar 08, 2016

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