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Winter tick season is a thing, check your pets: Kamloops SPCA

KAMLOOPS - While ticks are a rarity in the winter time, officials at the Kamloops SPCA branch are advising pet owners to check their animals year-round after a cat with nine live ticks was recently surrendered. Valerie Wilson says the cat came from a farm in Barriere where it lived in a chicken coop. While...

Kamloops faces worker shortage over next 10 years: Consultant

30,000 TO 35,000 VACANCIES; 70 PER CENT NEED REQUIRE POST-SECONDARY OR SKILLS TRAINING KAMLOOPS – Businesses in the Thompson-Cariboo region may have a tough time replacing retiring workers over the next ten years and job seekers who want in will have to bring the right skills and education, says a labour market consultant. Rob Malatest,...

Partnership clears North Thompson recreation trails

BARRIERE - Several trails in the Barriere area continue to get upgrades thanks to a work experience project between the province and the Lower North Thompson Community Forest Society. In total about 56 kilometres of recreation trails will be cleared on Skull Mountain, the Hoover Nature Trail and Orchard Lake. Seedlings have also been planted...

Events to celebrate the long weekend near Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - This long weekend is dominated by biking enthusiasts and agricultural events, but it’s also the last weekend to squeeze in some time with the family before the kids go back to school. For those camping this long weekend you can finally enjoy campfires after the ban was lifted in the Kamloops Fire Centre...

Yellowhead Highway crash claims a life, three others in serious condition

KAMLOOPS - One person is dead and three other passengers are in serious condition after a car crash south of McLure yesterday, July 28. Const. Paul Koester, with the Kamloops traffic services division, confirmed the fatal two-vehicle crash, which closed at least part of the Yellowhead Highway for about four hours Tuesday. Koester says a Volkswagen Jetta...

Vehicle incident closes Yellowhead Highway south of McLure

KAMLOOPS - Emergency crews are responding to a two vehicle collision between McLure and Vinsulla, about 27 kilometres south of Barriere, this afternoon. As of 3:32 p.m. July 28, Drive B.C. confirmed the crash has closed the Yellowhead Highway in both directions. An assessment of the incident is currently taking place while police are on...

Do you know this trio? Police looking for tips in gun theft

BARRIERE - Crime Stoppers is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying three suspects who broke into a rural property near Barriere to steal guns and ammunition last week. On July 2 a security camera caught footage of two men and a woman walking the property around 3:30 p.m. before a gun safe was pulled...

Millions promised for pipeline construction inconvenience

KAMLOOPS - The Kinder Morgan crude oil pipeline expansion has yet to be approved but it's not stopping the company from signing millions of dollars worth agreements with communities that will be affected by the project. Kamloops and four parts of the Thompson Nicola Regional District signed agreements with the company Thursday, Feb. 26, joining...

Accused in animal cruelty case to face charges in Supreme Court

KAMLOOPS – A man accused of shooting two dogs plans to make an application to adjourn his trial date in Supreme Court next week. Richard Charles Gerald Benton faces one charge of causing unnecessary pain or suffering to an animal and one charge of killing or injuring an animal. He is accused of shooting the...

ELECTIONS 2014: Results from around the region

KAMLOOPS - Voters have spoken and while there are only two new faces around the council table in Kamloops there are a slew of new faces around the rest of the region. Council tables in both Clinton and Sun Peaks will remain unchanged with all incumbents unchallenged but in Ashcroft, Barriere, Chase, Lillooet and Merritt...

Tragedy and success for rescuers on busy Monday

KAMLOOPS - After two months with only a few calls for service local search and rescue members were called out on three separate searches Monday, including one requiring a rope team to recover the body of Barriere man from a rolled SUV. Kamloops Search Manager Alan Hobler says they were first called out shortly after...

Band financials for neighbouring Kamloops areas

KAMLOOPS – The July 29 due date has passed for First Nations to submit reports on financials including chief and council salary, remuneration and expenses as part of the First Nation Financial Transparency Act. So far, InfoNews has reported on the numbers for bands near Osoyoos, Enderby, Vernon and Kamloops. Numbers for the Penticton Band have...

Trails project near Barriere to cater to geocachers

BARRIERE - New and old trails will be overhauled as plans for trail restoration in the Barriere area move forward this summer. The majority of the trails already exist in the Fishtrap recreation area southwest of Barriere and heading towards Bonaparte Lake and just require some brushing out. Lower North Thompson Community Forest Society Executive...

The smell of pot is enough evidence for arrest

KAMLOOPS – A provincial court judge decided police did not need to request a marijuana permit before arresting a man hiding 73 marijuana plants in the back of his van. Corey Joseph Eld, born 1977, and his lawyer John Conroy argued Eld’s arrest was illegal because police arrested him without asking him if he held...

Man arrested for alleged assault

BARRIERE - A Barriere man was taken into custody Monday morning after he allegedly threatened and assaulted a 55-year-old man Saturday night. Jordee Edward Beeds, 22, faces a number of potential charges following an incident at a home on the 3500 block of South Barriere Lake Road. Police were told Beeds had access to firearms...

Rehabbed horse finds new home in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - Autumn, a 14-year-old mare, was rescued in October and after months of rehabilitation has a new home as an ambassador for the therapeutic riding club in Kamloops. When My Little Pony Horse Rescue liberated Autumn from poor conditions last October she had no manners, no guidance, no training and her feet had not...

Motorcyclist killed outside of Barriere identified

KAMLOOPS - A motorcyclist who died from  a head-on collison last weekend was identified by the B.C. Coroners Service. He was Kurtis James Genier, 34, of Barriere. Genier was travelling southbound on the Yellowhead Highway on May 24 when he tried to pass a tractor-trailer on the two lane highway. He hit an oncoming vehicle....

UPDATE: Thunderstorm watch ended, river advisory remains for North Thompson

KAMLOOPS - The North Thompson River remains under a high streamflow advisory though a severe thunderstorm watch issued earlier today has ended. Forecasters say there is still a chance of thunderstorms in the North Thompson this evening and a 60-100 per cent chance of showers through Tuesday. In Kamloops we can expect to see a...