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Glynn Brothen

Glynn Brothen

  • Joined: January 01, 2023
  • Articles: 1329

UPDATE: Woman possibly missing near Adams Lake found

KAMLOOPS - The woman reported missing earlier this week in the Adams Lake area has been located. The woman, who was camping with her boyfriend when she was reported missing on Wednesday was found last night, Sept. 18, according to Kamloops Search and Rescue. Alan Hobler with the volunteer service said yesterday that Barriere and...

TRENDING NOW: This jeopardy answer got a couple laughs but cost her $600

Sometimes if you don't know the answer and you've already made a $600 bet, why not try for a laugh? That's what Talia decided to do for her answer on Final Jeopardy. She conjured her favourite Saturday Night Live skit and got Alex Trebek to say Turd Ferguson, a name Norm MacDonald used to re-name...

Kamloops couple still searching for furry family member that escaped house fire

KAMLOOPS - A dog that escaped the flames that tore through a family home in Barnhartvale nearly a month ago is still missing.  Janelle Andrews and her boyfriend Cory Lien lost everything they owned after their home caught fire Aug. 21. Both of their dogs made it out safely before the walls came down, but one...

Retiring Kamloops RCMP officer receives national recognition for career

KAMLOOPS - A high-ranking Kamloops Mountie received a prestigious distinction at a special ceremony in Ottawa this morning. Staff Sgt. Mike Savage is being appointed into the order of merit of the police forces as a recognition of his leadership, service and commitment to Canada. Savage, who recently announced his retirement, has served with the...

Independent investigators clear Kamloops officer of excessive force accusation

KAMLOOPS — A  Kamloops Mountie will not face assault-related charges after the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. determined the officer did not use excessive force when arresting a suspect who suffered an injury causing paralysis last year. During a chase between a man with an outstanding warrant and police, the suspect jumped a series of...

SNELSON: How the sentence for a Kelowna killer breaks down

IS IT 11 YEARS, SIX YEARS OR ONE YEAR? HOW ABOUT ALL OF THE ABOVE KAMLOOPS — Convicted killer Neil Snelson was arrested in 2009, sentenced yesterday to 11 years in prison and will likely be released around this time next year. Makes complete sense, right? A jury convicted him earlier this summer of the...

SNELSON TRIAL UPDATE: Kelowna killer sentenced; only 19 months left to serve

KAMLOOPS - It took two trials and nearly 22 years for the case and the jail doors to close on Jennifer Cusworth’s killer, but it will only be one year and seven months before his release. Neil George Snelson, 48, was sentenced to 11 years today, Sept. 16, in Kamloops Supreme Court. Since he was...

Acquitted Kamloops RCMP officer still awaiting internal conduct hearing

KAMLOOPS - It’s been nearly one year since his trial and five years since the event which took him to trial, yet Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Rick Brown has yet to have a conduct hearing from his employer. Brown was acquitted on a breach of trust charge in October of last year. Despite his acquittal, he...

Kamloops tyke shows ‘amazing strength’ in fight for his life

KAMLOOPS - Babies and toddlers cry for all types of reasons, but a Kamloops family is facing a worst case scenario after discovering their child was not crying because of a case of thrush, but rather something much more scary. At the beginning of September, Shantelle Araneda took 18-month-old Sawyer Jules to the doctor. Her...

Two family doctors leaving Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - The city is about to lose two more doctors after a husband and wife team announced they’ll be leaving their North Shore practice. Last week the Aspen Medical Centre notified its patients that family doctor Arshad Mahmood and his wife Dr. Ambreen Bushra would be relocating, leaving solely Dr. Howie at the practice....

ELECTION 2015: Support and anger during Harper’s Kamloops stop

KAMLOOPS - In a Kamloops warehouse filled with roughly 200 supporters and Conservative Party staffers, Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke of the economy under his government, touting the latest auditor general results from this morning as proof his government is the right one to be leading our country. The Conservative Party rally kicked off around...

Why vaccinating 71 per cent of 7-year-olds in southern Interior should have you worried

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - To prevent a measles outbreak, 95 per cent of the population is required to be vaccinated, but the province’s southern Interior isn’t meeting that requirement with only 71 per cent of seven-year-olds vaccinated between 2012 and 2014. With the latest school year comes the annual round of vaccinations and kids will bring reminders...

Police Judo set to kick off in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - A new martial arts program aims at making the streets safer for both law enforcement officials and suspects being taken into custody. Police Judo is a recreational fitness training program that combines the martial art of judo and police control techniques. Started 20 years ago by a Vancouver Police Department Inspector, the judo...

SNELSON TRIAL: Killer’s sentence depends on finding of sexual assault argument

KAMLOOPS —It’s been almost 22 years since the night Neil Snelson killed college student Jennifer Cusworth after a party in Kelowna in 1993 and now Cusworth's family has one week left to find out how long he'll spend in prison. The 19-year-old Cusworth was found dead in a ditch on Swamp Road in Kelowna in...

ELECTION 2015: Harper to visit Kamloops next week

KAMLOOPS - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is tentatively scheduled to come to Kamloops next week. The Conservative Party of Canada is releasing limited information, but a spokesperson confirmed the Conservative leader will be in the region on Monday, Sept. 14. Details on if and when an event is to take place will be confirmed 24...

Man who deceived police, courts with fake name guilty of obstruction

KAMLOOPS - A man who told police and the court a different name than his own got away with it for a period of time, but it finally caught up with him when he was convicted of obstructing justice last week in Kamloops Supreme Court. During a street check in 2013 Eric Bradley Charlie, 31,...

Hilarious, full contact soccer to hit Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - A brand new, full-contact sport has arrived in the Tournament Capital. B.C. Bubble Soccer is bringing what are essentially human bubblewraps to Kamloops to add more contact to the traditional game of soccer, but also to changeup schoolyard games from red rover and gauntlet, to prison break and more. "It's a very intense,...

ELECTION 2015: Conservative Cathy McLeod seeks re-election in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - Cathy McLeod is not only the incumbent in the race to be the MP for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo, but she is also a wife, mother and a former nurse. With grown children, over 30 years of her marriage to husband Gord, a masters degree and seven years under her belt as a member of parliament,...

ELECTION 2015: RCMP investigate Kamloops campaign sign vandalism

KAMLOOPS - The Conservatives, Liberals and New Democratic Party are being targetted by election sign vandals in Kamloops and the RCMP have launched an investigation. Many of the large party signs across the city's south shore were flattened over the last two nights. Cathy McLeod, the riding’s Conservative candidate, says because of the weight of...

Dog still missing after fire destroys Barnhartvale house

KAMLOOPS - A Barnhartvale couple who lost their dog Aurora and all their possessions in a fire last month continue to search the streets of Kamloops for their only memory of home, their other dog Jasmine. Janelle Andrews and her partner Cory Lien came home to see friends try to douse the flames at their...