Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
SD73 Board of Education approves district spending plan; staffing cuts to follow
KAMLOOPS - A series of cost-cutting measures largely impacting staffing were approved Monday night (April 28) by the Kamloops-Thompson Board of Education within the district's budget plan for the 2025...
Apr 29, 2025
Despite local losses, Kamloops Liberals look to national victory; NDP appear set to be minority kingmakers
KAMLOOPS - It was a tale of two elections for the major parties in Kamloops that fell to the incumbent Tories. For the Liberal camp, it was easy to look across the nation and to a Mark Carney win to k...
Apr 29, 2025
Conservative double dip the newly-split Kamloops ridings
KAMLOOPS - It was a clean sweep of the two Kamloops ridings for the Conservative Party of Canada Monday (April 28), with incumbents Mel Arnold in Kamloops-Shuswap-Central Rockies and Frank Caputo in K...
Apr 29, 2025
Kamloops residents irate after voter card mixup prevents them from casting ballots
KAMLOOPS - "It's BS."Timothy Hook of Valleyview was one of several local residents who could not cast their ballots in Monday's (April 28) federal election, thanks to what appears to be an error print...
Apr 29, 2025
Mounties say major Chase bust last week shut down operation manufacturing 3D-printed guns, explosives
KAMLOOPS - RCMP are saying more about an investigation that led to the bust of a major guns and explosives manufacturing operation in Chase last week. In a news release issued Tuesday (April 29), Supt...
Apr 29, 2025
RCMP launch homicide investigation after body found near Paul Lake
PAUL LAKE, B.C. - RCMP are investigating the Kamloops area's first homicide of 2025.In a news release issued Tuesday (April 29), Staff Sgt. Jason Smart of the RCMP Southeast District Major Crime Unit ...
Apr 29, 2025
Man's death in Kamloops North Shore fire not suspicious: RCMP
KAMLOOPS - RCMP do not believe foul play was involved in the death of a man in a fire outside a vacant North Shore commercial building earlier this month.The man was discovered early on April 7, after...
Apr 29, 2025
B.C.'s police watchdog clears Merritt officers of wrongdoing in September 2024 shootout and arrest
MERRITT, B.C. - B.C.'s police watchdog has cleared RCMP officers of any wrongdoing after they fired shots at two suspects during an arrest outside of the city last fall. In a news release issued Tuesd...
Apr 29, 2025
Police investigate report of child followed by stranger in Barriere
BARRIERE, B.C. - RCMP in Barriere are investigating after a child was reportedly approached by an unknown man. At around 9:26 p.m. on April 18, Barriere RCMP say a parent told police their child had b...
Apr 29, 2025
Mel Arnold elected Kamloops-Shuswap-Central Rockies MP
KAMLOOPS - (UPDATE April 29): Mel Arnold has been elected as the first-ever Member of Parliament in the riding of Kamloops-Shuswap-Central Rockies. With 99 per cent of the polls reporting, Arnold had ...
Apr 28, 2025
