Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Insurance provider for Trans Mountain pipeline says it won't renew policy
EDMONTON - An insurance provider for the Trans Mountain pipeline says it will not renew its policy with the company when it expires in August.Argo Group International Holdings Ltd., an international u...
Jun 03, 2021
VIDEO: David Thompson Elementary students raise orange hands in support of Tk'emlups
KAMLOOPS - There has been an outpouring of support from the Kamloops community since the discovery of more than 200 graves at Tk'emlups te Secwepemc near the former residential school last week. Wedne...
Jun 03, 2021
MPs McLeod, Albas vote counter to Conservative majority on abortion bill
OTTAWA - A private members bill sponsored by Cathay Wagantall, Conservative MP for Yorkton-Melville in Saskatchewan, surrounding abortion was voted on Wednesday in the House of Commons.The bill aimed ...
Jun 03, 2021
Safety improvements coming to Coquihalla Highway
MERRITT, B.C. - To improve safety for people travelling on the Coquihalla (Highway 5) south of Merritt, centre median barriers will be installed and the highway shoulder widened.A $2.2-million contrac...
Jun 03, 2021
B.C.-based Prestige Hotels and Resorts buys Kamloops Comfort Inn and Suites
KAMLOOPS - A B.C.-based hotel and resort chain is moving into the Kamloops market.In a news release issued Thursday (June 3), Prestige Hotels and Resorts announced it has purchased the former Comfort ...
Jun 03, 2021
Identifying children's remains at B.C. residential school stalled by lack of records
VANCOUVER - A lack of access to records and first-hand data would hinder the ability to identify the remains of 215 children found at a former residential school in Kamloops, says the director of the ...
Doug Collins Jun 03, 2021
KCBIA says plans for summer celebrations downtown depend on B.C.'s COVID-19 trajectory
KAMLOOPS - Optimistic, confident and excited.The Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association (KCBIA) is eager to see what summer could look like in the city and B.C. if the provincial government...
James Peters Jun 02, 2021
'It chips away at your heart': Kamloops family seeks items stolen from mausoleum memorial
KAMLOOPS - While visiting her son Brennan's memorial at Hillside Cemetery last week, Dorothy Barron and her daughter Payton Comazzetto realized something was wrong - the display had been broken in to....
Doug Collins Jun 02, 2021
COVID-19 cases declining steadily in Kamloops; big spike in Vernon last week
KAMLOOPS - The latest COVID-19 case count data from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control shows steadily declining cases in the Kamloops area.A map of cases broken down by Local Health Area (LHA) shows ...
Jun 02, 2021
IH warns against complacency as vaccination rates increase
KAMLOOPS - B.C.'s immunization roll out is reaching important milestones this week, with about 70 per cent of eligible adults in the province with a first dose.Following a similar order as the first d...
Jun 02, 2021
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