Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Sheriff shortage ships Kamloops guards to Victoria
KAMLOOPS - The head of the union representing sheriffs in BC says deputy sheriffs are being transported from Kamloops to Victoria to help cover a shortage there. BCGEU section chair Dean Purdy says th...
Mar 15, 2017
City Council shifts industrial tax rate with hope of stabilizing job force
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops City Council has passed a policy that it says will lead to more financial certainty to heavy industry in town. Council shifted the industrial tax rate on Tuesday, in response to co...
Mar 14, 2017
City Council endorses two mobile injection sites in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops is moving one step forward towards the reality of operating two mobile injection sites, voting unamimously at Tuesday’s Council meeting to endorse the mobile site...
Mar 14, 2017
School board to enter negotiations over spring break
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops-Thompson school board will be entering negotiations with teachers and CUPE support staff to decide once and for all whether there will be a one week spring break or two. Curren...
Mar 14, 2017
Distracted driving blitz nabs 50+ offenders
KAMLOOPS - RCMP have released the results of a distracted driving blitz conducted at several Kamloops intersections last week. The two-day blitz resulted in officers handing out 52 tickets for drivers...
Mar 14, 2017
Kamloops road rage incident escalates into gun confrontation
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP have some tips for drivers after a road rage incident escalated into a Kamloops man having two guns pointed at him yesterday. Cpl. Jodi Shelkie says the man was minding his ow...
Mar 14, 2017
Spring Break- one week or two?
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops School Board still can’t seem to make up its mind on whether or not it wants a one-week spring break or two. Trustees had voted earlier this year to go back to a one-week spr...
Mar 14, 2017
One man dead after North Shore collision early this morning
KAMLOOPS - RCMP continue to look into the death of a 36 year old Kamloops pedestrian on Westsyde Road last night. The man was crossing the road near the 8th Street interchange when he was hit by a veh...
Mar 14, 2017
Pedestrian seriously injured in late night collision
KAMLOOPS - A pedestrian was rushed to hospital in serious conditions just after midnight on Tuesday, March 14th after an accident near 8th Avenue at Westsyde / Ord Road. Police, Ambulance, and Kamloop...
Mar 14, 2017
Money holding back Tk'emlups in transit agreement with city
KAMLOOPS - For many of the thousands of Kamloops residents who utilize the public transit system to get around town, they wouldn’t be able to get from Point A to Point B without it. But not ever...
Mar 13, 2017
