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Man killed in Cherry Creek crash named

KAMLOOPS - A Savona man is dead after a head-on crash near Cherry Creek on Friday afternoon. The B.C. Coroners Service says Stewart Walter Green, 24, was the lone occupant of a westbound vehicle that crossed the centre line and collided head-on with an eastbound vehicle just east of the Cherry Creek store on Friday,...

Judge in hate speech trial won’t hear free speech charter argument before trial

QUESNEL - The hate-speech versus free-speech debate continues in a Quesnel courtroom after a judge decided to wait until the end of trial to hear constitutional arguments from the accused charged with promoting hatred.  Roy Arthur Topham, born 1947, is charged with promoting hatred against those of the Jewish religion or ethnic group on his...

In Kamloops, tossing a cigarette butt will cost you

KAMLOOPS - Fair warning, smokers: If you discard your cigarette out the window, expect a ticket. Kamloops RCMP Const. Jason Epp says police got about a dozen calls about people discarding their cigarettes. So far, four have already been ticketed; more are on the way. Rain over the weekend lowered the fire danger rating in the...

UPDATE: Man who needs medical treatment located

UPDATE: 3:13 P.M., JULY 13, 2015 RCMP say Brandon Lacavera has been located and is safe. 11:57 A.M., JULY 13, 2015 KAMLOOPS - RCMP are on the lookout for a man who left Royal Inland Hospital against doctor's advice yesterday afternoon. Const. Jason Epp says Brandon Lacavera, 29, was last seen around 3 p.m., July...

Smoky skies advisory ends for Southern Interior

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - A system that broke a nearly three-week heat wave and dropped rain in the Interior also helped clear the smoke. The smoky skies advisory that had been in place since June 7 was lifted this morning, July 13, by the Ministry of Environment and the Interior Healthy Authority. While many large fires are...

Break in heat for Okanagan, back to seasonal normals

OKANAGAN - After nearly three weeks of temperatures exceeding 30 Celsius almost every day, we are finally seeing cooler temperatures, some rain and less smoke. This weekend, the heat wave finally broke with temperatures closer to seasonal normals of 27 C on both days, and Environment Canada is calling for high temperatures to remain a...

Break in heat for Kamloops, back to seasonal normals

KAMLOOPS - After nearly three weeks of temperatures exceeding 30 Celsius almost every day we are finally seeing cooler temperatures, some rain and less smoke. This weekend, the heat wave finally broke with temperatures closer to seasonal normals of 28 C on both days, and Environment Canada is calling for high temperatures to remain a...

Royal Inland Hospital eyes next phase of development

KAMLOOPS - With construction still in the works on the clinical services building the hospital is already looking towards the next phase of development, a patient care tower. It will still be about one year before the nearly $80-million clinical services building opens at Royal Inland Hospital but planning will soon be underway for the...

Guns, stolen property recovered from Tobiano

KAMLOOPS - A tip about stolen property led police to several stolen ATVs and construction equipment in Tobiano yesterday. Const. Jason Epp says Kamloops RCMP received information about stolen property at a residence on Colebrook Road in Tobiano, west of Kamloops. When they went to the address to investigate yesterday, July 9, they found several...

Watch out for Canada Revenue fakers in latest phone scam to hit Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - That suspicious message you received from the Canada Revenue Agency, yes, it's a scam. Const. Jason Epp, a spokesperson for the Kamloops RCMP, says the calls are a notification that after a completed audit, the resident owes back taxes to the agency. Epp says the fraudster then asks for immediate payment or a...

‘The bins are gonna be filled in seconds’: Kamloops property manager

KAMLOOPS - Apartment and condo residents are hoarding their recyclables and waiting for bins to be unbolted while a strike continues to put recycling pickup on hold in the city. “The bins are gonna be filled in seconds,” Kelson Group Property Manager Val Wouters says. “I’ve been hoarding all my stuff. If people are hoarding...

High-end marker theft from Kamloops store

KAMLOOPS - Three suspects walked in to the Michaels store on Hillside Drive this weekend and walked out with $1,600 worth of Copic brand sketch markers. On Sunday, July 5, two men and a woman entered the store and filled a shoulder bag with the markers, which retail for about $8 each. According to Crime...

New record and another hot day for Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - It was another record-breaking day in the Thompson-Okanagan Wednesday and today will be much of the same. Environment Canada shows 17 B.C. communities setting new records Wednesday, July 8, and many were in the Interior. One of the oldest records to fall was in Kamloops, where a temperature of 38.3 Celsius was enough...

New records and another hot day for Okanagan

OKANAGAN - It was another record-breaking day in the Okanagan Wednesday and today will be much of the same. Environment Canada shows 17 B.C. communities setting new records Wednesday, July 8, and many were in the Interior. One of the oldest records to fall was in Kamloops, where a temperature of 38.3 Celsius was enough...

Missing documents for Westbank audit mysteriously resurface

WHAT IT MEANS TO RECALL PETITION FOR CHIEF AND COUNCIL | In February, Westbank First Nation members demanded an audit of band dealings in the Lake Okanagan Wellness Centre after they found themselves on the hook for $7.9 million. When they failed to get it, they pursued the recall of Chief and council. In our ongoing...

Students will continue to enjoy longer spring break in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – The two-week spring break is likely here to stay. Of the parents surveyed, 59 per cent were in favour of the two-week break while teachers reported no “backward slide” after the two weeks and thought students were healthier physically and enthusiastic. School board chair Denise Harper admits the original idea was met with...

Winners announced in Kamloops Dream Home lottery draw

KAMLOOPS - The YMCA-YWCA 2015 Dream Home Lottery came to a close yesterday, July 7, and with it gave 305 ticket holders something to smile about. The big winner was Marge Lane, the owner of a brand new Juniper Ridge home worth $597,500. “We tried to give her a call and her line was busy,”...

Kamloops Slide the City date nears, tickets still available

KAMLOOPS - Late registration tickets are still available to hopefuls who plan to Slide the City on a giant waterslide later this month. On July 18, Hillside Drive between Hillside Way and Notre Dame drive will be closed off to host the event. On the event’s website, tickets are available for a single slide or a...

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...

Kamloops weather well on the way to setting new records this week

KAMLOOPS - As temperatures in Kamloops keep hitting well above 30 Celsius the possibility of new records being set is very real today and tomorrow. Temperatures climbed above 30 C nearly every day for the last two weeks and we can expect the same through the beginning of next week. The temperature reached 35.5 C...

Million-dollar Kamloops home comes complete with trip to Italy

KAMLOOPS – Think you have to choose between the house, the once-in-a-lifetime trip and a fully-stocked wine cellar? Not with this Sun Rivers house. The sale of 3014 Visao Ct. comes complete with a trip to Italy and a cellar stocked full of wine. It's part of Upcountry Developments’ formal launch and director of design...

Vehicle thief handed nine months jail for stolen truck, ATVs

KAMLOOPS - A 22-year-old with a taste for stolen vehicles will spend the next four-and-a-half months in jail after pleading guilty to possessing a stolen pickup truck and two all terrain vehicles last spring. Justice Gary Weatherill handed Waylon Faulhafer a nine-month sentence yesterday, July 6 for his involvement in two separate stolen property files....