Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - A Thompson Rivers University instructor says he thinks he knows why Kamloops residents are seeing so many carpenter ants this spring. Rob Higgins is an assistant professor in TRU’s De...

KAMLOOPS - School District 73 is looking at yet another multi-million dollar budget shortfall. The district presented its budget to the public in an information session yesterday, and Superintendent K...

KAMLOOPS - Canadian soldiers who fought in what is recognized as a turning point in the Korean War, have landed in the country’s capital city of Seoul, to mark the 65th anniversary of the Battle...

KAMLOOPS - It’s been a frustrating few years for surgeons and patients at Royal Inland Hospital. There have been many cancelled surgeries, despite having an available operating room, which has s...

KAMLOOPS - Health Minister Terry Lake says there have been a spate of fentanyl overdoses in Kamloops over the past few hours. Lake says no fewer than six people have overdosed on the drug. He notes ea...

KAMLOOPS - The store is called ‘Winners,’ but a man who robbed the store yesterday certainly doesn’t fit that description. Kamloops RCMP say during the noon hour yesterday, store emp...

KAMLOOPS - A sad update to a story we first brought you two years ago. Sam Donovan, the six year old Kamloops girl fighting a rare form of cancer, passed away this morning. Sam was first diagnosed wit...

KAMLOOPS - Record-breaking heat has led to concerns over river levels. A high streamflow advisory was issued Wednesday for the Southern Interior. Dave Campbell with the BC River Forecast Centre said t...

KAMLOOPS - Two days after learning that 81% of the faculty at Thompson Rivers University have no confidence in school administration, the chair of the TRU Board of Governors says it’s time to fi...

KAMLOOPS - The BC Court of Appeal has dismissed a suit leveled against the City of Kamloops by a local construction company that was denied an opportunity to build the new fire hall in Aberdeen. In 20...