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Automated defibrillators could be coming to a high school near you
KAMLOOPS - The foundation that brought first aid training to Kamloops secondary students could soon be bringing the automated defibrillators to local schools. The Advance Coronary Treatment Foundation is offering to help establish an automated external defibrillator program. It would be an expansion of the CPR training already in place and students at participating schools would...
Recent snow great for Sun Peaks, closes Highway 1 for avalanche control
KAMLOOPS - The last several days have brought a bounty of fresh snow to the higher elevations which is great news for ski hills like Sun Peaks, but is causing concern in backcountry areas and along Highway 1. About 45 centimetres of snow fell at the mid-mountain level in the past week at Sun Peaks,...
Kamloops brings the heat, sets new weather record
KAMLOOPS - With temperatures soaring above 22 Celsius, it’s a new high temperature record for March 27 in Kamloops. By 4:45 p.m., Environment Canada was reporting temperatures of 22.6 C. The previously recorded high was 21.1 C in 1930. According to the weather office, temperatures will remain at or just above seasonal normals of 14...
What has changed? Kamloops in thirty years of satellite images
KAMLOOPS - If you’ve ever wondered how our city has changed in the last 30 years there’s a Google map for that. You can now see annual satellite images from 1984 to 2012 in a time lapse on Google Earth Engine. While it doesn’t show the latest growth in areas where a lot of construction...
Rally planned as union looks at potential job loss in face of laundry privatization
KAMLOOPS – About 150 to 175 workers who could potentially lose their jobs if Interior Health follows through on contracting out laundry services to private companies will be rallying alongside other union members next week. The protest, set to take place in Kamloops on March 31, is one of the ways Barbara Nederpel and the...
Spirit bear Clover peeks out, will soon move to new habitat
KAMLOOPS - Clover is slowly waking from hibernation, having peeked his nose out earlier this month, but the public will have to wait about another month before they can get a glimpse of the white black bear. The Kermode bear, or spirit bear, will wake to a newly completed B.C. Wildlife Park habitat meant to...
More controlled burns planned for Lytton area
LYTTON - With a goal of reducing interface wildfire risk and restoring natural ecosystems B.C. Wildfire will be in the Lytton area over the next two weeks performing prescribed burns. This year work will be done in a subdivision above Loring Way east of Lytton, in Skihist Provincial Park and in an area northwest of...
Facility catering to Kamloops legal field moving forward
KAMLOOPS - A new meeting facility designed with mediation and arbitration in mind is set to open in Kamloops later this year. Centrepoint will feature 4,200 square feet and will feature hearing, discovery and breakout rooms as well as private serviced offices for small companies, legal professionals and business people in town on assignment. “In...
Blazers player cracks WHL all-star team
KAMLOOPS - It’s the end of the regular season in the Western Hockey League and though the Kamloops Blazers did not make the playoffs, one player still made the all-star team. The all-star teams along with the 2015 WHL Awards finalists were named Wednesday, March 25, with awards set to be handed out May 6....
Rain, snow increase avalanche risk in Interior
KAMLOOPS - With less than a week left in March spring is well under way at lower elevations, but that doesn’t mean winter conditions are not present on mountain highways or in the backcountry. Avalanche Canada is warning of moderate to high risks of avalanche in many of the alpine and treeline elevations throughout the...
Malakwa man killed by CP train indentified
KELOWNA – The man killed on the CP tracks in Malakwa last weekend couldn’t get out of the way of the freight train in time. Gilles Robert Joseph Thivierge, 61, of Malakwa was in the back seat of a car, which became stuck on the tracks just off Malakwa Road and Summerville-Husted Road around 9:45...
Southeast District RCMP may not lose its helicopter
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – The RCMP helicopter based in Kamloops may not move up north just yet according to an RCMP spokesperson who says the move is merely a 'recommendation' still under review. “Our assessment of Air Services in B.C., recommends the re-aligning of these resources more effectively by moving one of two helicopters currently in the...
Opinions wanted on local election spending
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Fresh off the heels of the fall municipal election a special committee is now looking at whether spending limits should be put in place for candidates and third party advertisers. The provincial government committee will speak with stakeholders and the public over the coming weeks to discuss whether a limit should be put...
Local clothing stores to remain open under creditor protection
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - The company behind Cleo, Bootlegger and Ricki’s has filed for creditor protection but says at this point all stores will remain open. Comark Inc. filed for protection today, March 26 and plans on using it to bring stability to restructuring of its operations. "For our customers and employees, what is most important is...
Attempted theft ends in stabbing on North Shore
KAMLOOPS - A male walking in the North Shore was stabbed during an altercation with another male this afternoon. Kamloops RCMP say a male was walking along Fort Street just before 1 p.m. Thursday, March 26, when another male tried to steal his backpack. The duo got into an altercation and the first one was...