Kamloops Riverside Park
iN PHOTOS: Wind begins to take toll in downtown Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – While winds gust across Kamloops amidst a wind warning for the area, the…
The City of Kamloops is looking for the solution to a cute, fuzzy, and rapidly reproducing problem
KAMLOOPS – If you have taken a stroll through McArthur Island Park or Riverside Park…
Coroner investigating death at downtown Kamloops park
KAMLOOPS – The B.C. Coroners Service is investigating a death at Riverside Park in Kamloops.…
High water forces closure of Riverside Park pier
KAMLOOPS – Officials have closed the Riverside Park pier due to high water. The City…
Art, music and fireworks highlights for Canada Day weekend
KAMLOOPS – Riverside Park will once again be the centre of the city's Canada Day…
Two Kamloops councillors worry Parks Master Plan takes away too much green space
KAMLOOPS – The Kamloops Parks Master Plan was recently unveiled and but not everyone is excited about the upgrades. Coun. Arjun Singh and Coun. Denis Walsh worried the new infrastructure, mostly located in Riverside Park, would take away from the parks’ green spaces. The city looked at three parks along the Thompson River: Riverside, Waterfront...
Another place to ‘go’ at Riverside Park by fall
KAMLOOPS - The long-awaited gender neutral bathroom planned for Riverside Park should be installed this fall, now that staff have figured out a way to heat the standalone washroom during the winter months. Funding for the universal washroom, aimed at allowing opposite sex caregivers to more easily help clients or family members, was approved under...
NBA star plays some one-on-one with local kids at Riverside
KAMLOOPS – Boston Celtics centre and Kamloops native Kelly Olynyk was in town today to shoot hoops with aspiring young basketball players on the courts at Riverside Park. While the skies were overcast and the wind was brisk, the kids didn’t seem to mind. About 100 showed up for the hour-long event held by the...
City plan to fill in sculpture is ‘breaking the law for artistic expression’
KAMLOOPS - The artist behind a rock sculpture in Riverside Park is concerned about the city’s plan to alter his piece of work to prevent others from entering the space beneath it after a woman died there last month. Bill Vazan, a Montreal-based artist, was commissioned to carve his granite stones piece Raven’s Nest in...
Aging willow removed from Riverside Park
KAMLOOPS - An iconic tree, known for its graceful boughs that provide enough shade for several families next to Riverside Water Park, is no longer. City of Kamloops parks crews are removing the 50-year-old willow because it was quickly dying and posing a risk to public safety. “It was a beautiful tree… But over the...