Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

OTTAWA - Canadians overwhelmingly support the idea of requiring vaccine passports to gain admittance to public places such as restaurants, bars and gyms, a new poll suggests. Fully 78 per cent of resp...

KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has purchased a key property on Tranquille Road for $7.1 million to create new affordable housing and market rental housing on the North Shore. 377 Tranquille Road, the...

VICTORIA - B.C. is reporting 714 new cases of COVID-19 Friday (Oct. 1), including 205 new cases in Interior Health.The numbers come courtesy of an update to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control COVID-1...

KAMLOOPS - Outside Westmount Elementary, the kids have plenty of space to play. Inside it's a different story. While the district won't allow media in the building, the school is at 179 per cent capac...

VICTORIA - With cold-weather season approaching, drivers and vehicle owners are reminded that B.C.'s annual winter tire requirements are in effect.As of Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, winter tires are mandator...

KAMLOOPS - In one of his first acts since he was elected last Monday (Sept. 20), Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP-elect Frank Caputo has penned a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.In the letter, Cap...

KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University says it will bestow an honorary doctorate on a groundbreaking Indigenous female judge next week.At its fall convocation ceremony set for next Friday (Oct. 8), the...

VICTORIA - Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has announced an expanded mask mandate in B.C. schools. Starting Monday (Oct. 4), all students from K-to-12 will be required to wear masks indoors...

TK'EMLUPS - Just in time for the first ever National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc have premiered a new video."Our vision was to create a video where we could honour Kam...

KAMLOOPS - As of Friday morning (Oct. 1), Interior Health has listed no fewer than 50 schools on its COVID-19 exposure list. Eight of those schools are in the Kamloops-Thompson School District. The la...