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TNRD board presented with conceptual plans for $32.6M Kamloops film studio
Plans to build a film studio in the Kamloops area took another step forward with the release of conceptual plans for a $32.6-million facility on a five-acre plot of land. Chad Rickaby, a manager with ...
Feb 11, 2022 Sebastien Grey / CC
BCLC launches search for new President and CEO
The Kamloops-based British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) has begun the search for a new President and Chief Executive Officer. It comes as former President Jim Lightbody stepped down in Dec. 202...
Feb 10, 2022
City to set up downtown, North Shore satellite offices for Community Services Officers
The City of Kamloops is setting up two new satellite officers for Community Services Officers - one downtown and other in the Tranquille corridor. Community Services Manager, Tammy Blundell, tells NL ...
Feb 10, 2022
As B.C. overdose crisis worsens, Kamloops advocates calling on politicians to act quickly
An advocate for drug policy change in Kamloops says she is tired of politicians who aren't acting quick enough to stop the overdose crisis. There were over 2,200 overdose deaths in B.C. last year, and...
Feb 10, 2022 Rally participants laid down on the sidewalk to remember the 77 people in Kamloops who lost their lives to an overdose in 2021. (Photo via Victor Kaisar)
Rapid testing unvaccinated SD73 employees to cost $13,800 per month
It will cost the Kamloops-Thompson School District just under $14,000 a month to rapid test any employees that cannot or will not get vaccinated against COVID-19. The district has brought in a COVID-1...
Feb 09, 2022 A positive COVID-19 rapid test. (Photo via Brett Mineer)
B.C. government giving Lytton another $8.3 million to support ongoing recovery efforts
The B.C. government has provided another $8.3 million in funding to support ongoing recovery efforts in the Village of Lytton. In a statement, the province says $6.26 million will help the community m...
Feb 09, 2022 Photo via Andybremner2012/Wikimedia Commons
Kamloopsians encouraged to rally outside MLA offices Thursday to bring attention to the overdose crisis
With toxic drugs claiming the lives of six British Columbians every day in 2021, Moms Stop the Harm is holding a rally in Kamloops tomorrow, Feb. 10. It will be coinciding with similar rallies taking ...
Feb 09, 2022
New census data shows Kamloops as the third fastest growing metropolitan area
New census data from Statistics Canada shows the City of Kamloops was the third fastest-growing census metropolitan area in Canada. It says the population of the Kamloops metropolitan area - which inc...
Feb 09, 2022
Salmon Arm man who went missing with his two daughters arrested in Ontario
A 40-year-old Salmon Arm man who went missing more than two weeks ago with his two daughters has been arrested in Ontario. Salmon Arm RCMP also say they've "confirmed" the well-being of Eliyah, 14, an...
Feb 09, 2022 Caleb Gerbrandt (Photo via Salmon Arm RCMP)
Record 2,224 overdose deaths in B.C. in 2021; 77 in Kamloops
New data from the BC Coroners Service shows there were a record 2,224 British Columbians who died of an overdose last year. It is a 26 per cent from the previous record of 1,767 overdose deaths in 202...
Feb 09, 2022
