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Halley’s Comet debris trail sets the sky aglitter tonight

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - A peak at the annual debris trail from Halley’s Comet may be possible tonight and early Tuesday morning if skies clear. Every spring bits of the debris trail burn up resulting in the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower. This year the peak will occur tonight, Monday, May 5, through Tuesday morning. The bright...

Appeal rejected, fine stands for CNR

KAMLOOPS - The province was claiming more than $340,000 in mature timber was lost in a blaze sparked by a train near Ashcroft in 2005, but a panel of judges disagreed last week, instead handing down a fine of only $11,000 and a bill for $6,252 in lost timber value. In July 2005 a Canadian...

Nuisance property owners could face charges

KAMLOOPS - Potential changes to how the city deals with nuisance properties would see the owners of properties generating a lot of calls to bylaw and police officers charged for those services. City Community Safety and Enforcement Manager Jon Wilson says staff has been looking at the way Nanaimo deals with nuisance properties and whether...

Construction begins on Clinical Services Building

KAMLOOPS - Delegates were on hand at Royal Inland Hospital Friday to mark the beginning of actual construction of the new Clinical Services Building. "Today marks one more step in providing high quality acute care to residents of the Kamloops region and is evidence of our commitment to the full redevelopment of Royal Inland Hospital,"...

Spring cleaning on the Coquihalla

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN — If you plan on hitting the highways this week plan for delays as crews clean and fix highways hit hard by a cold, wet winter that left potholes and frost heaves on many roads in the region. Work has already begun on some highways and over the next week drivers can expect to...

Police looking for alleged groper

KAMLOOPS - A police hunt was launched after a man allegedly groped another man near Kitchner Crescent during the lunch hour Friday. Kamloops RCMP were told of the incident shortly after 12:30 p.m. A man was walking along the riverbank when he was approached by an unknown man. The second man spoke briefly with the...

WITH PICTURES, VIDEO: Injured geocacher rescued off Mt. Savona

SAVONA — A geocacher was rescued off Mt. Savona by helicopter early this evening after he was left injured by a displaced boulder. Around 1 p.m. two hikers were on Mt. Savona, about 12 km south of Savona, Friday afternoon and took a short cut to get to a geocache close to the caves. While...

TRU to hand out seven honorary degrees

KAMLOOPS - Seven people who have made a difference in our world will be honoured by Thompson Rivers University this spring with honorary doctorates. Former premier Gordon Campbell and Honorable Justice Lance Finch both played a key role in the founding of the university law school and with the inaugural convocation this June for the...

Wildfire south of city producing smoke

KAMLOOPS — A fire on Long Lake Road in the Knutsford area has been contained at 15.6 ha but is expected to continue producing smoke today. B.C. Wildfire Information Officer Kayla Pepper says the fire was reported early yesterday afternoon and a sustained action crew along with two initial attack crews responded to guard and...

UPDATE: Sahali Shoppers suspected robber in custody

KAMLOOPS - Police arrested a suspected following an investigation into a robbery at the Summit Drive Shoppers Drug Mart Thursday night. Staff say they were threatened with an aerosol can during the robbery that netted the thief electronics. RCMP were called to the Summit Drive store just before midnight on Thursday when a male suspect...

UPDATE: Bomb squad detonates suspicious package on York Avenue in Kamloops

UPDATE: RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Cheryl Bush says it's unlikely a suspicious package found at a York Avenue residence contained explosive materials. The Kamloops Serious Crime Unit continues to examine the evidence and look for the person responsible for this incident as well as another where a pipe bomb was found at the same residence March...

When is it time for council to listen?

KAMLOOPS — Just how involved councillors should be on committees was briefly discussed in council chambers this week and it is one that could be visited more often as councillors appear to jockey for position heading into a fall election. Coun. Nelly Dever told council back in November that councillors were speaking too much during...

Kamloops man turns downtown Kelowna into demolition derby

KELOWNA - A police chase on Gordon Drive was called off by Mounties in the name of public safety, but the suspect driving the SUV still managed to crash into four cars. Kelowna RCMP are still looking for the driver, who prompted the initial chase by striking vehicles at 2:30 a.m. May 1. Police were...

Nominations open for worst roads in B.C.

KAMLOOPS — The voting has begun and while a Kamloops road has not yet cracked the BCAA top-10 list of worst roads there is still time to nominate one, whether it be because of potholes, poor layout or you think it’s just down right dangerous. Westside Road, which runs along the west side of Okanagan...

UPDATE: Blazers end 2014 WHL Bantam Draft with good mix

KAMLOOPS — Today is the day Bantam players across Western Canada and the Western U.S. find out if they have made the cut and are picked up by a Western Hockey League team. This year the 22 teams that make up the WHL will go through 13 rounds of drafting, ultimately choosing more than 280...

GOG: How you can help me help you survive this damn flight

I recently had to be somewhere else in a hurry, and the only way of achieving that is, of course, by flying. It’s been a while since I had to travel by aeroplane, and I had forgotten just how dreadful an experience it is. First one must face the ritual humiliation of “security” where in...

UPDATE: Man reported missing found safe and sound

UPDATE: Mounties say Robert Clarkson, 58, has been found and is safe. KAMLOOPS — Medical concerns have RCMP asking for help in locating a 58-year-old man not seen since earlier Wednesday afternoon. Kamloops RCMP say Robert Clarkson left his residence in the Harrison Place area of Aberdeen on foot earlier in the afternoon and hasn’t...

Unwelcome merger gets axed

KAMLOOPS — It began as a way to fix quorum issues but if the majority of the volunteers on a committee don’t want to merge with another committee what do you do? According to city council, the right thing. Andrew Yarmie stood up on behalf of the Heritage Commission, which voted six to one in...

Weather records could fall Thursday

KAMLOOPS — The first day of May might bring record high temperatures to Kamloops if Environment Canada meteorologists are correct in predicting a high of 30 C on Thursday. Doug Lundquist of the weather office notes the record high is 30.5 C, set in 1980, could be reached on Thursday though he is unsure if...

Sound off: How hard is it to find a family doctor?

KAMLOOPS - The Thompson Region Division of Family Practice wants to know how hard it is to find a doctor in our region and is asking people to fill out a short survey to help gather your thoughts. The survey is part of the G.P. for Me program, a provincial initiative to help match the...

Elderly pedestrian struck in Kamloops crosswalk

KAMLOOPS - An elderly woman was struck by a vehicle while attempting to cross the street at the corner of Lansdowne Street and 2 Avenue yesterday. Witnesses told police the woman had the right-of-way, but the driver failed to yield while making a left hand turn and hit the woman while she was in the...

Police might have your stolen dirt bike

KAMLOOPS - Mounties hope a member of the public can help them locate the owner of an abandoned dirt bike. The bike was found at the end of Singh Street. It's described as a Kawasaki KX250 with some distinguishing marks the rightful owner should be able to identify. If you think you are the owner,...