Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
TRU job fair connects best and brightest to red-hot employment market
KAMLOOPS - This year marks 25 years for the TRU job fair. It's an event where businesses from all over Canada come to recruit and connect with TRU's best and brightest. The goals of this year's event ...
Jan 30, 2025
Merritt's new shelter providing both temporary and transitional housing
KAMLOOPS - The city of Merritt lost its previous shelter in August of last year. For the months that followed, some of the 67 reported homeless people in the city were put into temporary housing, whil...
Jan 30, 2025
B.C. families feeling forced to surrender children to access disability services, report finds
KAMLOOPS - A new report from British Columbia's Representative for Children and Youth (RCY) reveals a disturbing reality - some families in the province are being forced to surrender their children to...
Jan 30, 2025
First round of speculation tax declaration forms delivered around Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Homeowners in the Kamloops area have begun receiving speculation tax notices in the mail and the B.C. government is reminding residents that the letters are legitimate. This is the first ye...
Jan 30, 2025
Kamloops Fire Rescue brings in emergency trail marker system throughout city
KAMLOOPS - Dozens of trail markers have been installed in nature parks around the city of Kamloops, serving as another way for emergency responders to quickly find people who have called for help. Kam...
Jan 30, 2025
B.C.'s attorney general demands Kamloops mayor return Integrity Group report
KAMLOOPS - B.C's Attorney General is taking Kamloops mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson to court. Niki Sharma has asked Hamer-Jackson to return all copies of the Integrity Group Report, also known as the Honcha...
Jan 30, 2025
Clearwater council to meet Friday on local restaurant defying regulatory orders
CLEARWATER B.C. - The District of Clearwater will hold a Special Meeting Friday (Jan. 31) afternoon as it grapples with the owner of a local restaurant who refuses to comply with municipal and provinc...
Jan 30, 2025
Sentencing set for driver involved in 2023 McGill Road crash that killed TRU volleyball player
KAMLOOPS - Colval Abbinett, the driver involved in the fatal vehicle crash along McGill Road in 2023 that killed one member of the TRU WolfPack men's volleyball team was in provincial court Thursday (...
Jan 30, 2025
YKA Hot Chocolate Festival organizers aiming to build on event in its second year
KAMLOOPS -- Brandon Giddens of Logjam Coffee made a succulent sales pitch for the Banana Foster Hot Chocolate. "It tastes like you're sitting by a fire on a beach," he said. "It's one of the best thin...
Jan 29, 2025
Merritt's Sherry Peterson awarded King Charles III Coronation medal for unwavering community service
MERRITT, B.C. -Throughout Canada, the backbones of their communities have been getting honoured with the King Charles III Coronation Medal. In Kamloops, people such as 104-year-old WWII veteran John K...
Jan 29, 2025
