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Jennifer Stahn
Snow turning to rain today
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN — It's not ever yet, snow is still falling across the region and forecasters are calling for another bout of heavy snow on area highways. Environment Canada continued a special weather statement this morning, this time warning a Pacific frontal system will be moving across the Southern Interior by the afternoon, which will result...
You fly what?
KAMLOOPS — It has three wheels, wings and an engine which sounds fairly normal but when you see Jan Nademlejnsky flying above Kamloops you likely will have to do a double take. Nademlenjnsky has been taking to the skies since 1974 when he first built himself a hang glider in Czechoslovakia. Five years later he...
Olympic curling champions taking in Brier
KAMLOOPS — They just won gold in Sochi and now the Jacobs curling team is heading to Kamloops for the closing weekend of the Tim Hortons Brier. The 2013 Tim Hortons Brier champion team of Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden and Ryan Harnden will be at Interior Savings Centre for the final two days...
Mother Nature not done with winter just yet
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN — Yet another blast of snow is expected across the region today and it could bring as much as 25 cm to highway passes by Wednesday afternoon. The Coquihalla Highway only got about half the snow expected yesterday through this morning but another 15-25 cm could fall over the next 36 hours. In the...
UPDATE: Hydro restored downtown
KAMLOOPS — More than 1,600 customers were without power in downtown Kamloops earlier today, but power has been restored. B.C. Hydro investigated and say equipment failure was the cause of the outage. The lights went out just before 10:30 and affected much of the downtown area, including the Sagebrush neighbourhood. To contact a reporter for...
Mural project beautifying back alleys
KAMLOOPS – Muralists have been transforming the back alleys of downtown for four years already and this year the business association has plans for two different murals on Victoria Street and another on 4th Avenue. With 13 murals already in place in the back alleys of the 200-400 blocks of Victoria St and at Cactus...
“Those are her best days, when she gets to give to other people”
NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL BATTLES RARE CANCER KAMLOOPS — Livia Coles-Frank's happy, creative childhood and love of animals is threatened by a rare form of muscle cancer in her head and 54 weeks of chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The Grade 4 Beattie School of the Arts student and Tk'emlups te Secwepemc band member was admitted to hospital...
More heavy snow for Coquihalla
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN — The Coquihalla Highway could see another 40 cm of snow by Tuesday morning as another series of weather systems hits Southern B.C. today. Environment Canada has issued another special weather statement noting significant snow is expected over southern highway passes today with freezing rain closer to Hope. In the last 24 hours, 18...
Skier recounts terrifying ordeal
'IT WAS HELL' KAMLOOPS — A young German skier spending his first winter away from home as a seasonal employee at Sun Peaks says he is lucky to be alive after getting turned around in the back country near the ski resort Tuesday afternoon. Luca Beier, 19, was set to go hiking near the Gils,...
Yet another chance at northern lights
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN — A watch remains in place for the northern lights tonight so if the clouds stay away we could once again get a glimpse of the dancing auroras. The Space Weather Prediction Center says while the storm is winding down a minor watch is in place that could see the northern lights make an...
Terwiel will never forget Olympic experience
KAMLOOPS — As her family watched from the stands Sun Peaks skier Elli Terwiel straddled a gate in the slalom race at the Sochi Winter Olympics last week, earning a 'did not finish' on the run. While the disappointment on her face was clear to anyone watching the race she said in an email she...
Coquihalla to be closed again
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN — The Coquihalla is still at risk for another avalanche and as a result will be closed as helicopters once again take to the sky for some avalanche control work Tuesday. The highway, which reopened Saturday after being shut down for nearly 48 hours, will be closed from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday,...
UPDATE: Pedestrian darting across highway hit
KAMLOOPS — Another pedestrian has been struck in Kamloops, this time at the intersection of Highway 5 and Mt. Paul Way. RCMP officers were called to the collision Monday around 3 p.m. Cpl. Cheryl Bush says initial witness reports show the northbound driver had the green light and had swerved to avoid the pedestrian running...
City flushed with savings
KAMLOOPS — Savings of nearly $670,000 per kilometre were generated by tendering the new sanitary sewer force main project early this year. Almost three kilometres of new sewer line is set to be installed along Mission Flats Road, adjacent to the existing force main, to help deal with the large amount of waste generated by...
Close call for out of bounds skier
KAMLOOPS — It was a close call for one skier that ventured out of bounds at Sun Peaks Tuesday. It was the second rescue of the year for local search and rescue and the eighth out of bounds skier of the season but search manager Alan Hobler says wet clothes and -15 Celsius temperatures made it...