Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Passover meal helps feed homeless in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The city’s Jewish community came together for a celebration of Passover with a seder supper Saturday. The meal is a centuries-old tradition celebrating the exodus of Jewish slaves fro...
Apr 24, 2016
Early morning vehicle fire near Kamloops Airport
KAMLOOPS - RCMP are investigating an early morning vehicle fire in Kamloops. Steve Kilmartin with Kamloops Fire Rescue said fire crews were dispatched to a field behind residences on Argyle Ave. near ...
Apr 23, 2016
Kamloops ready to Boogie!
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops’ signature fitness event and fundraiser is this Sunday, April 24. The CFJC TV Boogie the Bridge takes place Sunday morning, with thousands of participants signed up to run or...
Apr 22, 2016
Naloxone not long-term solution for addicts
KAMLOOPS - While naloxone has become widely used as a life-saving tool during this fentanyl crisis, the Interior Chemical Dependency Office wants to help people with more longer term solutions. Dr. Ha...
Apr 22, 2016
Kamloops Farmers' Market opens
KAMLOOPS - Supporters of the ‘buy local’ movement have been looking forward to this all winter. It was the first Saturday of the season for the Kamloops Farmers’ Market on St. Paul S...
Apr 22, 2016
ASK Wellness praises B.C.'s response to fentanyl overdoses
KAMLOOPS - It’s a crisis that deepens by the day, and official only expect it to get worse. After six overdoses were reported in Kamloops on Thursday by the province, ASK Wellness says the commu...
Apr 22, 2016
Could TRU be home to a wind turbine?
KAMLOOPS - Today is Earth Day, and another day for Thompson Rivers University Sustainability Director Jim Gudjonson who is working on making the TRU campus greener. Gudjonson says among his projects r...
Apr 22, 2016
Kamloops teen urging peers to talk about organ donation
KAMLOOPS - It’s National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week, and a Kamloops teen who received a heart transplant as an infant is trying to educate her peers on the importance of organ donatio...
Apr 22, 2016
Technology a focus at Canadian Council for the Blind Conference
KAMLOOPS - Training and opportunity are two important factors in how people find meaningful work; they're also two factors keeping blind and visually impaired individuals from obtaining employment. Th...
Apr 22, 2016
Ants go marching in Kamloops
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...
Apr 22, 2016
