Jessica Wallace

CLOVER THE KERMODE BEAR HEALTHY IN QUARANTINE The BC Wildlife Park is abuzz with people now that the weather is warming up, but park visitors shouldn't expect a peek at the lone white furry park friend who caused some controversy last year. Clover the Kermode bear, a rare bear also known as a spirit bear...

Merritt RCMP are commending the instincts of a concerned man after his suicidal girlfriend jumped into the Nicola River Friday morning. A 47-year-old woman was pulled from the water alive with the help of RCMP on May 17 after her 49-year-old boyfriend reported her threatening to jump into the river around 10:30 a.m. that morning....

The hunt is on for a coyote that bit a man in Kamloops early this morning. Kamloops RCMP Staff Sgt. Grant Learned said the call came in around 12:48 a.m. of the incident at Silver Sage RV Trailer Park & Campground. "A male called in a report that one of the campers staying at the...

HOW TRU PROFS ENGAGE STUDENTS Wait, what? Didn't get that one. Pause. Rewind. Start it again. An eraser can rub out the errors on the page, but the rewind button on YouTube promises another chance to catch the professor's point. Thompson Rivers University professor Tony Bell realized that before he began posting supplemental course materials to...

Kamloops is now privileged to have a piece of Canadian history after a former correctional officer salvaged historical artifacts from a shut-down federal prison and permanently loaned them to the Tournament Capital. Anthony Martin worked at the federal maximum security prison B.C. Penitentiary New Westminster - commonly known as the B.C. Pen—from 1958 until it...

SAME SITE AS 2012 FATAL PEDESTRIAN HIT AND RUN: POLICE A hit and run crash that broke a man's legs last night in Valleyview was at the same location where another pedestrian was killed last year in an unsolved hit and run. RCMP were called at about 9:49 p.m. last night after reports of two...

Celebrations and disappointments didn't cause much of a stir in Kamloops last night following the results of the provincial election. Kamloops RCMP Staff Sgt. Grant Learned said a relatively low number of files came in Tuesday night despite election results that shocked the province. The B.C. Liberal Party was voted in, along with the party's...

POLICE WON'T SAY WHO KILLED WHO B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed the identities of two Anglemont residents dead after what police are calling a murder suicide. Tracy Nichol, 45, and Christian Robert Tallick, 15, were found dead in their Anglemont home near Chase at around 4:40 p.m. on April 30. While RCMP have stayed tight-lipped...

She didn't win. Her party didn't win. But it was still a party. NDP Kamloops-North Thompson candidate Kathy Kendall watched the B.C. election results unfold at a popular pub in her constituency, the Rock'n Firkin Pub and Grill, with a full room and more than enough food and drinks to go around. The 'relaxed' setting...

Kamloops' fire chief has handed in his resignation and announced his retirement after more than 25 years on the squad. Chief Neill Moroz has been fire chief with Kamloops Fire Rescue since 2009 and rose through the ranks in Kamloops through close to 28 years. Moroz went on personal leave in early May, and informed...

While residents got a sneak preview of summer this week after record breaking temperatures in Kamloops, RCMP were busy worrying about our furry friends. RCMP responded to several citizen complaints about animals being left in enclosed vehicles sweltering in the heat. They are reminding the public of potential life-threatening risks to pets left in hot...

APPLICATIONS DUE TODAY The words 'free school' should get the attention of any post-secondary student. With student debt in the tens of thousands of dollars, there may be a way to make the financial burden a bit easier. StudentAid B.C. facilitates federal grants to low-income students who are Canadian citizens and permanent residents/landed immigrants at...

Two men killed in a head-on collision near Hoffman's Bluff earlier this week have been identified by B.C. Coroner's Services as 24-year-olds Michael Spencer from Sicamous and Christopher Thomas Boman of Salmon Arm. According to the coroner's report, Spencer was the driver and Boman was the front-seat passenger of the pickup truck involved in a...

Police have ruled an accident on the Halston Bridge this morning that sent two people to hospital a vehicle malfunction. Emergency personnel were called to the scene of a single vehicle accident at about 6:33 a.m. this morning on the Halston Bridge. A young male driver was travelling west when the driveshaft of his truck...

To avoid hitting a stalled car with a child in it, a Knutsford resident rolled and totalled his own pickup truck and was sent to hospital with injuries yesterday on Highway 5 near East Shuswap Road on the Tk'emlups Indian Band. Police were called to the scene about 3:45 p.m. yesterday after a car broke...

While RCMP continue to investigate, the sister of a man recovering from brain injuries after being hit over the head with a skateboard is wondering if and when charges are going to be laid. Police arrested a 15-year-old male on scene after 46-year-old Michael Forry was sent to hospital with head trauma. The youth was later returned...

A homicide investigation into the death of two people at an Anglemont residence last week has come to a close and been deemed a murder-suicide. Police were called to the scene at about 4:40 p.m. on April 30 about 45 minutes east of Chase to find a 45-year-old woman and 15-year-old boy dead. RCMP North...

Kamloops RCMP are hoping the author of a tip that arrived by mail at the Battle Street detachment will come forward so it can be pursued by police. The RCMP received a letter signed by one 'Jason Flemming' claiming to know witnesses that could be helpful in an ongoing police investigation from an incident back...

A coroner's report has deemed the death of a 73-year-old man killed last year in a hit and run an accident. John Waldo Teed was lying on the asphalt shoulder of Highway 1 heading into downtown Kamloops when he was struck by an unknown vehicle that failed to remain on the scene. He died after...

The lone city employee charged in what has been dubbed the Kamloops RCMP jail sex scandal pled guilty today in B.C. Supreme Court, as two cops involved elected trial by judge and jury. Jail guard David Tompkins was charged with one count of breach of trust along with two RCMP members after an incident at...

The search for two Lower Mainland teens presumed drowned at Nicola Lake, just outside Kamloops has come to a close after a private dive team recovered their bodies earlier today. The families hired a private company from Idaho to conduct the search after an RCMP dive team failed to provide closure. The two were reported...

The weather is teetering on record-setting temperatures in Kamloops this week, but the risk of flooding is nothing that will break history books. "There's no significant flood risk this year," said Dan Sutherland, emergency program coordinator for the City of Kamloops. "We're just right at average snowpack for both the South Thompson and North Thompson."...

Two mysterious deaths in Anglemont last week are now being treated as a homicide by RCMP investigators. RCMP responded to the call at an Anglemont residence at around 4:40 p.m. on April 30 where they found two people - an adult female and a youth male - dead on the scene. While names are not being released,...