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Councillor O'Reilly says dealing with problem areas "like playing Whack-a-Mole"
Last week's shooting at the Hospitality Inn has a Kamloops city councillor voicing his concerns about ongoing problems in the Columbia Street West corridor. Mike O'Reilly says he lives about two block...
Oct 21, 2020
Man arrested after domestic violence call at Panorama Inn
Kamloops RCMP say a 32-year-old man is in custody after a domestic violence call at the Panorama Inn in the 600-block of Columbia Street West this morning. Sgt. Darren Michels say police were called a...
Oct 21, 2020
Cemetery user fees going up 25 per cent next year in Kamloops; updated plans approved for Hillside Cemetery
Most cemetery fees are going up by 25 per cent in Kamloops next year. Parks planning supervisor Mike Doll says rates have been the same since 2015, and says Kamloops charges about 25 per cent less tha...
Oct 21, 2020
Kamloops-area rehab centre wants provincial funding model to be improved
As another huge month is reported for overdose deaths, a rehab centre near Kamloops is concerned about being underfunded. The abstinence-based VisionQuest Recovery Society has a men's treatment centre...
Oct 20, 2020
Mounties looking for missing Kamloops man
Police in Kamloops are looking for a man who hasn't been seen in several days. Ryan Friesen has now been reported missing and police are trying to figure out who may have last been in contact with him...
Oct 20, 2020
Kamloops motel shooting investigation leads to unrelated arrested in Chase
Kamloops RCMP have one person in custody after a shooting last Friday at the Hospitality Inn, but note the arrest is not linked to that incident. Sgt. Darren Michels says Steven Stuart Gardner was arr...
Oct 20, 2020
RCMP cleared in fatal shooting of armed, distraught man in Lytton
The independent police watchdog has cleared RCMP officers after a distraught Lytton man with a shotgun was killed by a police sniper earlier this year. On Jan. 13, in the early morning hours, police w...
Oct 20, 2020
Residents in Knutsford, upper Aberdeen without water after line struck by contractor
Some Kamloops residents are expected to be without water until about 9 p.m. tonight, after a water main was damaged in Aberdeen. Utility services manager Greg Wightman says the line was hit by a third...
Oct 20, 2020
Green candidate says platform targeted specifically to resource communities
As we head into the home stretch of the provincial election campaign, the Green candidate for Kamloops North Thompson is making his pitch. Thomas Martin is a forestry worker and says he's also a forme...
Oct 20, 2020
UPDATE: Kamloops gym teacher reinstated after being fired for sexual advances against former student
A Brock Middle School gym teacher has been reinstated after being fired for sexual advances on a former student, who was a minor when the incident happened. According to the Ministry of Education, Bre...
Oct 20, 2020
