Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - A new $150 million-Kamloops RCMP headquarters moved one step closer to reality on Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 25), as council approved a motion to have staff draft a borrowing bylaw to fund the...

KAMLOOPS - Next Tuesday (March 4), Kamloops city council is expected to discuss the rezoning for three properties along Fortune Drive that, if approved, would make way for a new supportive housing bui...

SALMON ARM, B.C. - A Shuswap company that builds mushroom-picking robots has won a major agritech grant from the B.C. government.4AG Robotics in Salmon Arm will use its $1.47-million grant to develop ...

MERRITT, B.C. - Fire officials in Merritt are continuing their investigation into a blaze that destroyed a residence in the 600-block area of Granite Avenue on Sunday afternoon (Feb. 23). Merritt Fire...

KAMLOOPS -- GreenTee Country Club Tobiano is under new ownership. Michael Ternier sold the track formally known as Tobiano Golf Course to Coquitlam-based JK World Group (JKWG), a holding company with ...

CLEARWATER, B.C. - The North Thompson region has gone without permanent initial attack crews through the BC Wildfire Service for the past several wildfire seasons. However, the mayor of Clearwater say...

KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University (TRU) says new international enrolments are down 59 per cent when compared to last year.In a report to the TRU Senate dated Feb. 14, TRU President Brett Fairbairn...

KAMLOOPS - On Friday (Feb. 21), the City of Kamloops won its legal battle against Kathrine Wunderlich as the BC Supreme Court has ruled the results of the alternative approval process (AAP) will stand...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue (KFR) is urging resident to be smart when hanging around Cooney Bay after an early season landscape fire required a firefighter response.Cooney Bay is no stranger to wi...

KAMLOOPS - Representatives from the Thompson Nicola Regional District (TNRD) will be in Victoria in early March for a series of meetings with the provincial government.TNRD Board Chair Barbara Roden a...