Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Mount Paul Community Food Centre blending independence and education with free kid's recipe kits
KAMLOOPS - Despite COVID-19 limitations, the Mount Paul Community Food Centre has found a way to provide free food education from the comfort of a family's own kitchen. The centre has been offering on...
Sep 30, 2020
Kamloops teacher helps students wear their (blue) hearts on their sleeves for Orange Shirt Day
KAMLOOPS - Every Child Matters. It's the official slogan of Orange Shirt Day, which began as a result of the Saint Joseph Mission Residential School Commemoration Project and Reunion in Williams Lake ...
Sep 30, 2020
"There is so much more to it": Head of Kamloops RCMP notes complexity of fatal hit-and-run investigation
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops' top cop says there was good reason for the time it took to arrest and formally charge the man involved in a triple fatal accident last November. Last week, police arrested 31-year...
Sep 30, 2020
Electric school bus, charging infrastructure en route to Kamloops-Thompson School District
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops-Thompson School District is throwing its carbon neutral capital plan under the bus.District 73 says it will add a new electric school bus to its fleet early next year. This wil...
Sep 30, 2020
Wildfire smoke to make muted return to B.C.
KAMLOOPS - Environment Canada says smoke expected to drift into the B.C. Interior in the coming days should not be nearly as thick as the haze that descended on Kamloops earlier this month.Weather pat...
Sep 30, 2020
Quick-acting passerby saves driver after Nicola Lake plunge
MERRITT, B.C. - RCMP in Merritt are crediting a passerby with saving the life of a motorist whose vehicle plunged into Nicola Lake Tuesday (Sept. 29).According to an RCMP news release, the vehicle wen...
Sep 30, 2020
RCMP believe weekend business fire near Barriere may have been arson
BARRIERE, B.C. - RCMP in Barriere say a fire over the weekend may have been deliberately set.The fire was reported early Saturday morning (Sept. 26) at a business on Agate Bay Road south of Barriere.A...
Sep 29, 2020
Kamloops' top cop says sentencing in 2017 shootout highlights danger officers regularly face
KAMLOOPS - The head of the Kamloops RCMP detachment says he was satisfied to hear of a prison sentencing decision for a man who had shot at police officers in a 2017 incident. Three years ago, Shane W...
Sep 29, 2020
New videos from RIH Foundation highlight reality of COVID-19 diagnosis for young adults
KAMLOOPS - In order to get through to a younger audience, the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation has come forward with a visual telling of COVID-19 realities. As part of a new messaging campaign, RIH Fo...
Sep 29, 2020
Conviction quashed, new trial ordered for man accused of murder after wife's drowning near Revelstoke
VANCOUVER - A man convicted of first-degree murder after his wife drowned while boating has been granted a new trial.Justice Lauri Ann Fenlon of the B.C. Court of Appeal says in a decision released Tu...
Sep 29, 2020
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