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Schulz named head coach of Thompson Blazers
The former head coach of the TRU WolfPack will take over Kamloops’ B.C. Major Midget League team for the 2015-2016 season. Don Schulz was installed as the head coach of the Thompson Blazers by BC...
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Art gallery program to mentor youth artists
The Kamloops Art Gallery is shining the spotlight on creative youth this spring. Assemblage, a youth artists’ residency program, will be held on Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. beginning April 11 and...
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Lend a hand this Easter
Do you have some time to help a good cause? The New Life Mission is hosting its Easter Luncheon next weekend and is looking for about 20 volunteers. They need six people for prep on Sunday, April 5,...
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BC Transit cancels 8,500 extra transit hours promised to Kamloops
In March 2014, the City of Kamloops agreed to BC Transit’s offer of more than 8,000 new hours of service. In March 2015, — Tuesday, March 31, to be exact — BC Transit officials told the City of...
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Kamloops council cuts and spends en route to finalizing budget, tax rate
Kamloops city council will make two attempts to pare this year’s list of supplementary budget items ahead of its deadline to set the 2015 property-tax rate. After a full morning of debate on Tuesday,...
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BASS: More folly from the Conservatives’ war on pot
Donald Charles Isadore was given a six-month sentence for killing a woman as he drove downtown. An unnamed man was given a six-month sentence in a Kamloops court room for sexual interference of his...
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BCLC names its new CEO
BCLC CEO Jim Lightbody. The executive who has worked as the B.C. Lottery Corporation’s interim CEO was named today as the permanent head of the Crown corporation who will live in Kamloops — fulfilling...
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Local Travel: Johnson Lake is the Caribbean of the north
Amy Tucker (left), a professor at Thompson Rivers University, enjoys a kayak outing on Johnson Lake. Johnson Lake is one of the clearest and most stunning lakes in British Columbia. Due to the...
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Braden coming to the Bassment
Edmonton singer-songwriter Braden Gates will perform in Kamloops on Saturday, April 4. The show is at The Bassment — a venue in the basement of a home in Aberdeen which holds up to 40 guests — and is...
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Easter-egg decorating, science shows this month
The Big Little Science Centre is celebrating Easter on Saturday, April 4. The centre, at 655 Holt St., is hosting an Easter egg decorating session from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. It has several other activities...
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Will farmers’ market loo remain empty?
Editor: Regarding the request to have the city install a washroom by the Kamloops Farmers’ Market downtown: By my math, the farmers’ market is open less than five per cent of the yearly hours. Who will...
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SD73 can reduce spending
Editor: Re: The front-page story in the March 26 edition of KTW (‘SD73 ordered to cut $1.6 million’): I feel the Kamloops-Thompson school district should seriously look at ways of cutting its...
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Emergency personnel in Kamloops work fast to save distraught man
Quick action by first responders in Kamloops on Wednesday saved a city man from possibly harming himself. Kamloops RCMP Sgt. Joe Morrissey said Mounties received a report at 8 p.m. of an emotionally...
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A spending spree down Columbia Street
Editor: Commenter Mart posted online at kamloopsthisweek.com regarding the cost of $24 million for 30 kilometers of variable speed signs on highways. The commenter said the $750,000 per kilometre cost...
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Saying goodbye: Storm 20s reflect on careers, look to future
Ryan Keis (26) and Felix Larouche (19) played their final junior games last month. KTW file photo Lost. Weird. Disheartening. Confusing. Sad. The Kamloops Storm’s retiring veterans had plenty of words...
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Woman who died in Kamloops park fire was social worker on Schoenborn file
The woman who died this week after being found ablaze in Riverside Park was a former social worker in Merritt who went on long-term disability after three children in her case-management file were...
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Witness: Houseboat light switch was ‘off’
A switch that provided power for navigation lights on a Shuswap Lake houseboat involved in a fatal crash more than four years ago was set to “off,” a technician testified in B.C. Supreme Court...
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Alexa’s bus rolls into town
RCMP Cpl. Brian O’Callaghan will be leading the team of Kamloops Mounties putting Alexa’s Bus to use in the Kamloops area, enabling police officers to process impaired drivers at the roadside. The...
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WALLACE: The curse of the paid-off car
I had been warned by a friend. It was around November when I told him I had finally paid off my car. He had paid off his own not long before and warned me of impending bills that would ensue — the...
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Rooster booster
In the Photo: Loose Rooster lit up the room at Chartwell Ridgepointe Retirement Residence’s open house on the weekend. The seniors’ facility in Pineview Valley regularly opens its doors to visitors....
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