Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

Trade students are working on dummy power lines at Thompson Rivers University, getting the training required to become a power-line technician. The two-year program is run by local company Allteck, an...

The Royal Canadian Legion has wrapped up it’s annual poppy campaign in Kamloops. For decades the poppy has symbolized the sacrifices of Canadian Troops around the world. The poppy campaign is on...

A woman is in police custody and fire investigators are on site after the Star Lodge Motel on West Columbia street was badly damaged by a fire. More than 15 Kamloops Fire Rescue members responded to a...

Almost every town has a Cenotaph that honour soldiers who have died for our freedom, but how many communities have found a way to commemorate battles on a walk or drive through town? In Sorrento -reme...

It’s a constant reminder of the ultimate sacrifice our soldiers have made. The Memorial Hill Cenotaph in Kamloops holds hundreds of local names, commemorating soldiers who lost their lives. The ...

There's trouble in the trades at TRU. Instructors in the Faculty of Trades have issued a vote of non-confidence in dean Lindsay Langill. Langill is out of the country, and was not available to comment...

If you’re looking to travel in the next few days you should know that the mountain passes don’t look anything like the valleys in the BC Interior. Bob Gilowski of VSA Highway Maintenance s...

Ski teams from BC and Alberta had the chance to take a few runs Monday at Sun Peaks. “Mountain crews have been making snow since late October”, explains Erik Meertens, Director of Mountain...

A Walmart loss prevention officer is recovering today after he was stabbed while doing his job. Corporal Cheryl Bush says Kamloops RCMP were called to the Kamloops Walmart in the early evening. “...