Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

City hints at opening date for Westsyde Pool
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops says the Westsyde Pool will be back open “by late summer 2017.” In an update sent to media late this afternoon, the city says it has worked closely with the...
Kayla Derkach Feb 23, 2017

Potholes keeping Kamloops city crews busy
KAMLOOPS - City crews are working hard to fill numerous potholes throughout the city. According to the city, crews have filled more than 100 potholes throughout Kamloops in the past week, with Columbi...
Kayla Derkach Feb 23, 2017

Kamloops Y celebrates 2017 Strong Kids Campaign breakfast
KAMLOOPS - With rising costs for rent and groceries and wages that don't keep pace, families sometimes aren't able to give their children the opportunities they would like to. The Kamloops YMCA and YW...
Kayla Derkach Feb 23, 2017

Kamloops Art Gallery hosting wacky blindfolded art battle
KAMLOOPS - A unique art battle is taking place at the Kamloops Art Gallery tonight, Feb. 23. Competitors will be given 60 seconds to draw on random subject transforming into another. In addition to be...
Kayla Derkach Feb 23, 2017

MP raises red flag on Retirement Concepts sale
Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod says the impending sale of Retirement Concepts to a multi-level Chinese company raises a series of red flags. Retirement Concepts owns Kamloops Seniors Villag...
Kayla Derkach Feb 23, 2017

Public pipeline talk scheduled for tonight in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Residents will get a chance tonight to find out more about Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion program and what it could mean to the area. The meeting will run from 6:00 to 8:00 at the...
Kayla Derkach Feb 23, 2017

Kamloops stakeholders react to B.C budget
KAMLOOPS - On Tuesday the B.C. Liberals delivered their fifth consecutive balanced budget and from all accounts, B.C classrooms and the Health Ministry stand to benefit the most. The education budget ...
Kayla Derkach Feb 22, 2017

Kamloops schools think pink in an effort to stop bullying
KAMLOOPS - February 22 is Pink Shirt Day. The anti-bullying campaign started in Nova Scotia in 2007, and has quickly spread across the country. In Kamloops, students took part in a number of anti-bull...
Kayla Derkach Feb 22, 2017

Police say incident involving a male and students Wednesday is not suspicious
KAMLOOPS - RCMP say an incident yesterday afternoon near Arthur Stevenson Elementary school in Westsyde has been confirmed as NOT suspicious. Police reported yesterday that two elementary-aged girls h...
Kayla Derkach Feb 22, 2017

Police still seeking missing Kamloops teenager
KAMLOOPS - Police are still concerned for the safety of a missing teenager. 17 year old Aislynn Hanson was reported missing on February 20, but was seen in Kamloops three days later. RCMP weren’...
Kayla Derkach Feb 22, 2017

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