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As recycling workers strike, General Grants says it won’t accept material
Kamloopsians will have even fewer recycling options as a strike at Emterra Environmental enters its second day on Tuesday. Emterra workers bale and process Kamloops’ recyclables in Valleyview and ship...
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Police investigate sign vandalism on eve of National Aboriginal Day
Kamloops RCMP are investigating a report of two Skeetchestn Indian Band signs that were cut down overnight Saturday, on the eve of National Aboriginal Day. Cpl. Cheryl Bush said one sign has been found...
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UPDATE: Kamloops Mounties seek Hillside patient
UPDATE: Kamloops RCMP reported that Jordan Abbate has been found and is safe. Kamloops Mounties are asking the public to help find a young man who left Hillside Psychiatric Centre on Monday night....
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WolfPack volleyball has season slate
Thompson Rivers University will start the 2015-2016 volleyball season against the Canada West’s best. The Canada West Universities Athletic Association released its volleyball schedules for the...
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Kamloops Y Dream Home Lottery sells out
The final two of 11,000 Y Dream Home tickets were sold on Tuesday at the downtown Kamloops YMC-YWCA, thereby ensuring the 2015 lottery is sold out six days before the scheduled final day of sales. One...
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Scamming senior for bigger breasts nets Kamloops woman nine months in jail...
Brandi Bloor as seen in a mugshot. A convicted fraud artist who bilked a senior to obtain bigger breasts and a tummy tuck has been sentenced to five more months in jail by a provincial court judge....
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Blazers invited to Hockey Canada camps
Jake Kryski and Nolan Kneen will have the opportunity impress Hockey Canada Brass this summer. The Kamloops Blazers players will attend selection and development camps for Canada on the August long...
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Kamloops chamber’s support of Ajax proposal contingent on positive...
Editor: Re: Kamloops Coun. Denis Walsh’s column of June 9 (‘Ajax and dust for dollars’): In Walsh’s column, the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce was quoted as stating that “the City of Kamloops’ economy is...
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Union says Kamloops prison guard was ‘sucker punched,’ bitten by inmate
RCMP and correctional officials are investigating what a union official said was an assault on a guard at the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre (KRCC). Dean Purdy, with B.C. Government and Service...
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Sideroff anxiously awaiting NHL Draft; Ingram not expecting to get the call
Deven Sideroff of the Kamloops Blazers will likely be picked this weekend at the NHL Draft, while teammate Connor Ingram is not counting on being selected. The draft runs Friday and Saturday in...
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Growers returning to Kamloops
The Kamloops region is experiencing renewed interest in the field crops and orchards that helped build the city, as well as vineyards that were until recently the preserve of the Okanagan. Planners and...
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Union alleges Emterra tried to sneak non-union workers into recycling facility
As the strike at Emterra Environmental entered its third day yesterday, unionized workers at the recycling processing plant in Valleyview allege the company made an attempt to sneak non-union workers...
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South Kamloops secondary scholarship winners
• Alburquenque, Alexandra: Afternoon Auxiliary to the Royal Inland Hospital Award • Babki, Hannah: District Dogwood Authority Award for Fine Arts; John Peterson Legacy Award; Simon Fraser University...
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Kamloops council told ban won’t stop pesticide use
A pair of Kamloops lawn-care companies say a ban on cosmetic pesticide use would put them out of business, but won’t stop the use of weed-killing products in the city. Jackie Doherty of Grassroots...
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Happy trails in Pineview Valley
Mike Lorimer leads as daughter Talyn and friend Tammy Anderson follow. The cyclists were among many to take to the Pineview Valley trails during Saturday’s official grand opening and barbecue of the...
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Speed kills, as this family’s cat found out
Editor: As a neighbourhood grows, traffic flow increases. When we moved here 14 years ago, Dufferin was a quiet neighbourhood. We recently received a phone call from a thoughtful neighbour who lives...
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Six months in jail for former paramedic
A former paramedic and small-engine mechanic who lost everything to drug use will spend more time in jail. Adam Duhamel, 34, pleaded guilty in B.C. Supreme Court this week to two counts of drug...
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Planned waterpark high and dry — for now
Plans to build a destination waterpark at the city’s Tournament Capital Ranch have hit a snag, but the project is not dead yet. Parks, recreation and cultural services director Byron McCorkell told...
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EDITORIAL: Vancouver’s common-sense approach to pot stores
Regardless of where one stands on the marijuana-legalization debate, it is simply irrefutable that the City of Vancouver’s decision to regulate its burgeoning medical- marijuana dispensary business is...
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Former finance minister Goodale to speak at TRU
A former Liberal minister of finance will speak at Thompson Rivers University today before attending a Liberal fundraiser tonight. Ralph Goodale, a senior Liberal MP and cabinet minister in the Paul...
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