Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Snowfall expected to begin on Coquihalla Highway Friday, intensify Saturday
KAMLOOPS - A heavy, late season snowfall is expected for the Coquihalla Highway from Hope to Merritt this weekend.In a special weather statement online late Thursday (March 30), Environment Canada say...
Mar 31, 2023
TNRD board passes 2023 budget, complete with inflation-driven 7.05 per cent taxation increase
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District Board of Directors has approved the district's annual budget, complete with a 7.05 per cent increase in revenue coming in via taxation.In a news releas...
Mar 30, 2023
Thompson Regional Hospital District frustrated with lack of transparency on promised cancer clinic
KAMLOOPS - The topic of a cancer care clinic in Kamloops was discussed at length Thursday morning (March 30) at the regular meeting of the Thompson Regional Hospital District (TRHD). The discussion ce...
Mar 30, 2023
Two Kamloops basketball players are preparing for Special Olympics World Games in June
KAMLOOPS - From the River City to one of the greatest cities in Europe. For Tyra Flukinger and Taralyn Kalalest - known by her nickname PK - it's the chance of a lifetime. They're both Berlin-bound fo...
Mar 30, 2023
Second Juniper Ridge exit route to be built next year: City of Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops says a second exit route out of Juniper Ridge should be built next year.At present, the only entrance and exit via vehicle is Highland Road.The problem with having only...
Mar 30, 2023
Sandman Centre's temporary platform cost partly due to miscommunication: host committee
KAMLOOPS - After a recent announcement from the City of Kamloops coming to an agreement to fund 50 per cent of the temporary platform for the 2023 Memorial Cup, there are some questions being asked ab...
Mar 30, 2023
Memorial Cup Host Committee to cover other half of temporary platform at Sandman Centre
KAMLOOPS - The Memorial Cup Host Committee will cover the additional $100,000 towards a temporary platform in Sandman Centre.In a joint statement with the City of Kamloops Wednesday (March 29) afterno...
Mar 30, 2023
STEPS medical expanding to Sun Peaks
KAMLOOPS - After months in the making, the Mountain Resort Municipality of Sun Peaks and STEPS medical have reached a partnership. "Normally, a municipality wouldn't be in the healthcare business," Al...
Mar 29, 2023
Clearwater powerlifter is training hard for the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin
KAMLOOPS - Powerlifting is a strength sport in which competitors try to lift maximum weights in three different lifts: the bench press, the squat and the deadlift. However, for Special Olympics powerl...
Mar 29, 2023
'No plan for a return to any measure of fiscal prudence': Kamloops MP Caputo
OTTAWA - On Tuesday (March 28), Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland presented the 2023 federal budget in Ottawa. The Liberals' latest budget announced new spending, primarily on the clean economy and h...
Mar 29, 2023
