Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

Kamloops teen shares life-saving heart transplant story
KAMLOOPS - Abby Farnsworth has been courageous since the very day she was born. “Even though I went through it as a baby, I feel pretty normal because I kind of grew up with it,” says Abby...
Kayla Derkach Feb 18, 2016

Dial-a-Doctor: a new wave of medical treatment to arrive in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - It’s the latest technology to help ease the doctor shortage in rural B.C. "Tele-medicine" will soon be a reality for patients in Kamloops. Kipp Mallery will be among two pharmacies in...
Kayla Derkach Feb 18, 2016

Heart & Stroke Month focus on heart failure
KAMLOOPS - February is Heart and Stroke Awareness Month in Canada. This year’s theme centres around heart failure. The Heart and Stroke Foundation says more than 60,000 Canadians are living with...
Kayla Derkach Feb 18, 2016

Expert says painkillers are the hallmark drugs of the 2000s
KAMLOOPS - You might be familiar with the hallucinogenic phase of the 1960s, or the cocaine wave of the 1970s and 1980s. Now, experts are warning of the "painkiller" phase of the 2000s. And with fenta...
Kayla Derkach Feb 18, 2016

TNRD, library staff agree on three-year pact
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has announced a contract settlement with its library workers. More than 100 members of the BC Government and Service Employees’ Union ratified th...
Kayla Derkach Feb 18, 2016

Tourism drives uplifting numbers at Kamloops Airport
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Airport is seeing the scale of passenger traffic increases it hasn’t seen since Westjet landed in the city eight years ago. The airport saw more than 31-thousand traveler...
Kayla Derkach Feb 18, 2016

Local film industry heating up
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Nicola Film Commission is projecting a strong year ahead for the local film industry, with several productions on the horizon. WATCH: Local film industry heats up 3 productions...
Kayla Derkach Feb 17, 2016

More interest for second Ajax info session
KAMLOOPS - A second public briefing on the proposed KGHM-Ajax copper gold mine drew a larger crowd at the Coast Hotel and Conference Centre this afternoon. The public was met by staff from the provinc...
Kayla Derkach Feb 17, 2016

New life for New Afton
KAMLOOPS - A feasibility study released by New Gold today suggests the New Afton mine just outside Kamloops might have more life in it than first thought. While the operation is currently extracting o...
Kayla Derkach Feb 17, 2016

Huge TV audience measured for Hockey Day in Canada
KAMLOOPS - There were a lot of eyeballs on Kamloops during this month’s Hockey Day in Canada – and now we know how many. Rogers has told Tourism Kamloops the second of three NHL games aire...
Kayla Derkach Feb 17, 2016

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