Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

LITTLE FORT, BC - Hawkweed. Sulphur cinquefoil. Hoary cress. What do these plants have in common? They're all invasive species, on the TNRD's Thompson-Nicola Invasive Plant Management Committee's watc...

KAMLOOPS - Thousands of dollars donated and thousands of hours volunteering. Students at St. Ann's Academy learned just how far their efforts went at a year-end assembly this week. "I expected it was ...

KAMLOOPS - Thompson Regional Hospital District taxpayers will not be on the hook for cost overruns in the Royal Inland Hospital emergency room after the Ministry of Health stepped up to cover the miss...

VICTORIA - The last Snow Survey and Water Supply Bulletin from the province's River Forecast Centre is once again painting a picture of drought across B.C.The bulletin was released Thursday (June 20)....

TK'EMLUPS - RCMP are looking for the public's help identifying a man who may have started a fire that damaged a structure in Sun Rivers earlier this month.Officers were called to the incident at Talas...

LOWER NICOLA, B.C. - The federal government is helping the Lower Nicola Indian Band advance its recovery from the massive flooding in November 2021.The government announced a $190,000 investment Thurs...

SALMON ARM, B.C. - Salmon Arm RCMP are alerting the public of extortion cases after a man reported that someone online was trying to extort him for $10,000. In a news release issued Wednesday (June 19...

CHASE, B.C. - A man was bear-sprayed after attempting to stop an alleged fuel theft in Chase last week. Chase RCMP say officers responded to Aylmer Road on June 14 at around 3:13 a.m. where they were ...

KAMLOOPS - Time is nearly up to buy tickets for this year's Y Dream Home Lottery. The annual prize draw serves as a fundraiser for programs and operations at the Kamloops Y. This year's Dream Home is ...

KAMLOOPS - New business startups in Kamloops aren't as plentiful as they were during pandemic years, but Venture Kamloops (VK) says it doesn't mean the city is in a slump. In a report to Kamloops coun...