Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
No charges against Kamloops RCMP officer in 2022 North Shore bus loop death
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops RCMP officer who drove away after being asked to check on a man slumped over at the North Shore bus loop will not face charges.In its report issued Monday (Feb. 13), the Independ...
Feb 13, 2023
Sunday Overlanders Bridge closure due to mental health crisis; man taken to hospital safely
KAMLOOPS - Overlanders Bridge was briefly closed Sunday afternoon (Feb. 12) while Kamloops RCMP responded to a report of a man experiencing a mental health crisis.In a news release issued Monday morni...
Feb 13, 2023
Additional 10 centimetres of snow due for Coquihalla Highway Monday: Environment Canada
KAMLOOPS - An additional 10 centimetres of snow is expected to fall on the Coquihalla Highway from Hope to Merritt Monday (Feb. 13). In an updated online weather statement, Environment Canada says per...
Feb 13, 2023
TRU's Mens basketball fall once again to Bisons in season finale
KAMLOOPS - Just 24 hours after the TRU Wolfpack lost a nail-biter to the top team in the Canada West conference, the Manitoba Bisons kept their foot on the gas pedal, defeating the Wolfpack 84-50 on S...
Feb 12, 2023
TRU Women's basketball fall to Bisons in Rouault's final game
KAMLOOPS - On a night where the Wolfpack honoured Megan Rouault in her final game as she wraps up a six year career in U-Sport women's basketball, they were unable to get a victory in their final game...
Feb 12, 2023
Seminoff scores late in the 3rd as Blazers win six straight
KAMLOOPS - It was a dramatic finish at the Sandman Centre Saturday (Feb.11) as the Kamloops Blazers snapped the Prince George Cougars five game win streak by a 5-4 score. Matthew Seminoff was the hero...
Feb 12, 2023
Former longtime Kamloops councillor Pat Wallace dies
KAMLOOPS - A legend of Kamloops politics has died.Patricia Wallace, known affectionately by friends and political colleagues as 'Pat,' died at her home in Brocklehurst Saturday (Feb. 11). She was 90.W...
Feb 12, 2023
High-altitude object spotted flying over Northern Canada: NORAD
OTTAWA - UPDATE - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tweeted that he ordered the object to be shot down over the Yukon. NORAD confirms it was shot down by an American F-22.Trudeau confirmed that he spo...
Feb 11, 2023
Kamloops city council to consider supplemental budget items Tuesday
KAMLOOPS - Budget deliberations are ongoing at city hall in Kamloops. This week, council will consider a list of supplemental budget items at a community of the whole meeting on Tuesday (Feb 14) morni...
Feb 11, 2023
Temperatures in January drier than usual in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Despite cold weather and snow at times last month, the city of Kamloops saw drier than normal monthly averages, according to Environment Canada.Temperatures in January were warmer than aver...
Feb 11, 2023
