Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Young Ferris Backmeyer again waiting for new kidney, going through hemodialysis in Vancouver
KAMLOOPS - "A nightmare? Yeah. It's every parent's worst nightmare to watch their child suffer." Lindsey and Pat Backmeyer have watched their six-year-old daughter Ferris suffer with kidney disease fo...
Apr 27, 2023
Local food drive returning on the weekend as inflation continues to rise
KAMLOOPS - The Spring Rotary Food Drive returns this Saturday (April 29) as high inflation rates push the need for donations. Partnered with the Kamloops Rotary Club, the food bank is experiencing the...
Apr 27, 2023
'Our personal safety isn't being looked out for'; Kamloops residents rally for public safety
KAMLOOPS - More than 60 Kamloops residents joined together out front of City Hall Thursday (April 27) to say, 'Enough is enough' and demand action on public safety concerns. Rebecca Baechle, a local b...
Apr 27, 2023
Hydra Performing Arts Festival kicks off with a preview at the Effie Arts Collective
KAMLOOPS - Beginning Thursday night (April 27), the Effie Arts Collective on Tranquille Road will be the venue for Chimera Theatre's Hydra Festival. This year will be the fifth or sixth edition of Hyd...
Apr 27, 2023
17-year old welder from Thompson Rivers University going to national championship
KAMLOOPS - Sparks are flying over at the TRU Trades building - and it's not just because of welding equipment. Nolan Ilic fell in love with the trade at the age of seven, and now ten years later, he h...
Apr 27, 2023
Flames engulf Upper Sahali home Thursday
KAMLOOPS - UPDATE (3:30 p.m.): Kamloops Fire Rescue investigators are trying to determine how a fire that gutted an Upper Sahali home Thursday afternoon (April 27) started.Firefighters were called to ...
Apr 27, 2023
With freshet on the way, City of Kamloops plans to monitor smaller streams throughout community
KAMLOOPS - On Wednesday (April 25), the B.C. River Forecast Centre issued a high streamflow advisory for several areas around Kamloops. With a warm stretch of weather forecast over the weekend, the Ci...
Apr 27, 2023
Former TRU administrator Larry Phillips suing school, president over termination
KAMLOOPS - A former Thompson Rivers University administrator who was the subject of an independent investigation into improper conduct is now suing the university and its president.Larry Phillips was ...
Apr 27, 2023
Special avalanche warning issued for B.C. Interior due to rising temperatures
KAMLOOPS - A special avalanche warning is in effect from April 27 to May 1 for most of B.C.'s Interior due to an expected spike in temperatures.According to Avalanche Canada, the sudden transition fro...
Apr 27, 2023
Kamloops-North Thompson it is: Government rejects MLA Stone's effort to rename new riding
KAMLOOPS - The province of B.C. will have a riding named Kamloops-North Thompson in the next election after all. When the Electoral Boundaries Commission radically redrew riding boundaries earlier thi...
Apr 26, 2023
