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President talks ice conditions for Logan Lake pond-hockey tourney
Logan Lake Pond Hockey Classic president Dave Prentice says ice conditions for this week’s tournament will be fine. “The temperatures, it would be great if it was another five or six degrees colder,”...
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Kamloops drug courier avoids prison
A 27-year-old man busted by the RCMP while delivering $40 worth of cocaine to an undercover operator has been ruled an “exceptional circumstance” by a B.C. Supreme Court justice. That ruling on Monday,...
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A rare sight takes flight in Kamloops
While it’s a rare sighting in these parts, a glaucous gull recorded in a recent city bird count wasn’t spotted in the most pristine of locations. The large gull with the unremarkable appearance was...
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DYER: The strategy behind the Paris attacks
After Ahmed Merabet, a French policeman, was killed outside the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris last week, his brother Malek said: “My brother was Muslim and he was killed by two terrorists, by two...
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Latest march historic step for justice
Editor: So many mercuric marches. It is said baby boomers have seen more changes in their lifetimes than any preceding generation. As a baby boomer myself, I watched on the television screen as a...
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City of Kamloops seeks to erase crow’s feed
Toby Jackson and London out for a walk in Valleyview — trailed, no doubt, by their black-feathered friends. Andrea Klassen photo/KTW The skies are still when Toby Jackson leaves his home for his usual...
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Freedom of speech comes with responsibility
Editor: Let me begin with this: I do not agree with the murder of human beings under any circumstances and I am as shocked and disturbed as everyone else by the recent slaughter of 12 innocent people...
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The Peak palette
The 17th Annual Sun Peaks Winter Okanagan Wine Festival takes over the village for 10 days, beginning Friday Brandi Schier didn’t have much interest in wine until three years ago. It was then that the...
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Blind Bay man identified as snowmobile-accident victim
A Blind Bay man has been identified as the victim of a fatal snowmobile accident near Sicamous last week. The BC Coroners Service has confirmed that David Mark Yule, 49, was driving a snowmobile on...
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LNG plans continue in 2015 despite oil slump
The shakeout of liquefied natural gas proposals for B.C. continues, with ExxonMobil’s large-scale project for Prince Rupert moving ahead and smaller projects changing or withdrawing plans. ExxonMobil...
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Accused social worker denies shaving former client’s body hair
A social worker accused of shaving a former client’s testicles while he slept, threatening him and then holding him against his will in his Lytton home took the stand in B.C. Supreme Court today (Jan....
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Epic snowfall eats up one-quarter of Kamloops’ annual clearing budget
One of the largest snowfalls in a century has taken a $400,000 chunk from the city’s annual snow-clearing budget. City public works director Jen Fretz said the money was spent between Jan. 4 and Jan....
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City hall briefs: Air-quality monitoring stations asked for in Aberdeen, Sahali
A city environmentalist has asked council to request the Ministry of Environment install new air-monitoring stations in at least two locations in response to the proposed Ajax mine. Ruth Madsen, who...
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Kamloops council removes a designated truck route downtown
Commercial trucks will no longer have the right to travel on a downtown corridor. Kamloops council has passed a resolution backing an administration request to remove the designated corridor along...
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Kamloops asks Victoria, feds to help pay for $9.7-million water-intake project
The city will ask the federal and provincial governments to fund two-thirds of a planned emergency water intake estimated to cost nearly $10 million. Kamloops council has passed a motion to request...
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Juniper coffee house returns
Music will return to the ridge for the second time. Juniper Ridge elementary hosted almost 200 people from Kamloops and area during an inaugural event at the school last year. The parent advisory...
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Hicketts to be recognized at tonight’s Blazer game
The Kamloops Blazers will have a pre-game ceremony to honour world junior hockey champion Joe Hicketts tonight (Jan. 14) at Interior Savings Centre, with Nic Petan and the Portland Winterhawks in town....
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Shortage of anesthetists affecting surgeries at Royal Inland Hospital
A shortage of anesthetists is affecting elective surgeries at Royal Inland Hospital— but the situation is not dire. Dr. John Guy, one of about 15 anesthetists in the city, said that number of doctors...
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Cocaine wholesaler or reformed ‘chemist’? Sentencing will come later for...
Lawyers completed a sentencing hearing this week for a Kamloops man portrayed by the Crown as a well-connected cocaine wholesaler and by his defence lawyer as reformed “chemist” who radically changed...
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Kamloops Mountie injured in shooting remains in Vancouver hospital
RCMP CPL. JEAN-RENE MICHAUD The police officer who was shot during a traffic stop in Kamloops last month will remain in a Vancouver hospital for at least a few more weeks. RCMP Cpl. Jean-Rene Michaud...
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