Listen while you lunch
Kamloops musician Sean Luciw was Howlin’ at the Moon Hank Williams style during an afternoon of the Live@Lunch daily offerings, bringing music into the downtown along Victoria Street. The Kamloops...
View ArticlePicturing painters at the gallery
Andrea Kastner (right) starts the introductory art composition class with a tour of the Kamloops Art Gallery. The gallery is holding free adult drop-in painting workshops on select Saturdays in July...
View ArticleSwap leads to sexual-assault conviction
A 20-year-old man who entered into a deal with a buddy to swap girlfriends has pleaded guilty to sexual assault and will serve a year in jail. Provincial court judge Stella Frame said on Thursday, July...
View ArticleKamloops connection to airline shot down in Ukraine?
Officials at Thompson Rivers University say they won’t comment on an unconfirmed report one of the 295 people killed when a passenger plane was downed in Ukraine was a student at “Thompson University.”...
View ArticleWALLACE: Drinking up some games? Make sure they are safe
I wondered if it would be the next Neknomination. I had been sitting on the patio at a local restaurant when I overheard talk of a new drinking game that two youngsters had recently tried for the...
View ArticleVictoria for babies and boomers
Ever since the birth of our grandson, Victoria has been our second home. Although our visits are usually confined to indoor cuddle time, on this trip we decided to take him to a few visitors’ haunts....
View ArticleFinancial fraudster now being sued
A disgraced Kamloops financial planner who served a two-year jail sentence in a federal penitentiary after running an elaborate Ponzi scheme for five years is facing more legal trouble. A notice of...
View ArticleDYER: The origins of war
The 59 skeletons were found in 1964, lying together in a gravesite beside the Nile near what is now the Egyptian-Sudanese border. They died between 13,000 and 14,000 years ago and some of them seemed...
View ArticleVictim in Paul Lake incident identified
The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a Surrey man who died following an incident on Paul Lake near Kamloops on July 12. Lyle Johnston, 84, was staying at the family’s summer cabin on...
View ArticleHells Angels make Kamloops pit stop, leave with speeding warnings
A pack of 13 Hells Angels from the Lower Mainland made an unplanned pit stop in Kamloops after inadvertently passing an unmarked RCMP truck. At about 1 p.m. on Friday, July 18, Kamloops Mounties caught...
View ArticleChase man dies in Highway 1 head-on crash
The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died in head-on collision near Pritchard on Thursday, July 17. John Findlay Linklater, 58, of Chase died when the eastbound pickup truck...
View ArticleLytton wildfire triples in size, threatens homes
A wildfire raging near Lytton — a blaze that tripled in size in 12 hours on Friday — is causing headaches for provincial firefighters and threatening more than 100 homes. Fire information officer...
View ArticleRecchi to join Pittsburgh Penguins
Mark Recchi is joining the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Kamloops Blazers part-owner was named Penguins player development coach on Friday, July 18 and will now be “in charge of helping top develop...
View ArticleNo Kamloops university students aboard downed Malaysian airliner
Thompson Rivers University has confirmed no students of the Kamloops university were aboard the Malaysian Airline Flight MH217 that was reportedly shot down in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, July 17. The...
View ArticleSix months in jail for ‘relentless disregard’ that killed pedestrian
A Kamloops man who has been busted driving while prohibited five times in the last three years — including when he fatally struck a pedestrian on Victoria Street in 2012 — has a “wilful disregard” for...
View ArticleKamloops Y, Boys and Girls Club eye October occupancy at John Tod
A new community centre slated to open in the former John Tod elementary got a financial boost on Monday, July 21, as two local companies and a community group pitched in more than $50,000 in donations....
View ArticleFLETCHER: B.C. is back in the black but mired deep in debt
When the audited public accounts confirmed a $353-million surplus for the last fiscal year, B.C. Liberal political staff were quick to remind reporters of the NDP’s main theme from last year’s election...
View ArticleTeacher speaks out on lack of pickets
Editor: Re: KTW Speak Up comment, July 15, on BCTF not picketing worksites: The statement requires a two-fold response, since it begrudges teachers a summer break and asks B.C. Teachers’ Federation...
View ArticleNo slackers here
David Woods (left) manages to perform a knee drop as he balances on a slack line with friends Luke Acheson, Josh Barnett and Joseph Aubie on Friday, July 18 in Riverside Park. The teens are among a...
View ArticleFrom Kamloops to Africa to lend a helping hand
Kamloops resident Tina Sorgen recently returned from a trip to Zimbabwe as part of the team of the Vernon-based organization Zimbabwe Project Canada (ZPC). The team visited many of the rural projects...
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