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Kamloops Film Festival featuring comedy and Canadiana

KAMLOOPS - With just over three weeks left until the Kamloops Film Festival kicks off the annual event is set to deliver more laughs than ever before. Now in its 18th year, organizers promise the festival will be bigger and better than ever with more comedies and more Canadian films. The festival will feature 10 days...

Events to get your heart set on for Valentine’s Day

KAMLOOPS – Whether you’re looking for a romantic evening with your sweetheart or an escape from reminders that you’re single, Kamloops has a few different events for you on Feb. 14.   - Hoodoo’s at Sun Rivers is offering a three-course Valentine’s dinner with different options to choose from. The romantic dinner is available from Feb....

UPDATE: Missing teen located

UPDATE: 7:39 A.M., Feb. 11, 2015 RCMP say the missing teen has been located safe and sound. 2:23 p.m., Feb. 10, 2015 KAMLOOPS – Local RCMP members are asking the public for assistance finding a missing 15-year-old. Makayla Maskwa was last heard from on Feb. 8. She has not been home since Jan. 30. Maskwa...

Solution needed to costly transient camp issue in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – Calls to bylaws about homeless camps have more than doubled since 2013 and the issue has become a sore spot for an Ask Wellness staff member who says the process and costs of camp teardown is flawed. “The way we handle homeless camps I think is absolutely ridiculous and it probably costs the...

Local flooding possible as El Nino-like weather melts lower snowpack

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – It doesn’t happen often, but a perfect alignment of the right conditions may cause some flooding in the Southern Interior. The warm Pacific air bombarding the region, thanks to the Pineapple Express, is creating above normal temperatures, which in turn are starting to melt the lower elevation snowpack. Add the still frozen ground...

Legal case against school closure comes to abrupt end

KAMLOOPS - The Downtown and West End Residents’ Association is dropping out of a legal battle with the school district over the planned closure of Stuart Wood School. Chair Bruce Thomson says the decision was made official today, Friday, Feb. 6, because the cost is too prohibitive and the likelihood of getting any meaningful change...

Man in custody after firearm complaint

KAMLOOPS - Police have a 19-year-old man in custody after following up on a report of a distraught male with a firearm this afternoon. The incident occurred on the 1800 block of Tranquille around 1:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6. Cpl. Cheryl Bush, a spokesperson for the Kamloops RCMP, says the investigation is ongoing because police...

SPCA fighting cruelty with kindness

MILLION ACTS OF KINDNESS CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Even seemingly little things can help make the life of an animal better and B.C. SPCA wants to celebrate 120 years by fighting cruelty with kindness in 2015. The animal advocacy and rescue group launched the Million Acts of Kindness campaign this week. To launch the campaign...

Apply to win ‘most boring office’ in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – If you think you have a bland office space when it comes to decor, you may have a chance to embellish the walls with the Kamloops Art Council’s help. The Boring Office Contest which began today, Feb. 5, gives you the chance to show a panel of judges just how sad your office...

UPDATE: Kamloops police investigate homicide after woman killed in apartment

KAMLOOPS - RCMP officers have a man in custody after finding a dead woman in an apartment on the North Shore's Cherry Avenue around 2 p.m. today, Dec. 30.  But after reporting that a suspect was "arrested for murder," RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Cheryl Bush now says he has "been taken into custody in relation to...

Inmate preparing claim against Kamloops prison

KAMLOOPS – An inmate at the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre is preparing a small claims suit against the prison because he says the conditions there are causing him stress. Matthew Robert Barber, who is currently in custody for mischief-related charges, filed the claim earlier this week, but it was filed improperly and a completed document...

Two months later, family still has no answers how son died in Kamloops prison cell

"HOW CAN YOU LET HIM COME HOME BUT NOT TELL US WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?" KAMLOOPS - It's been two months since an Ontario family found out their 20-year-old son died in his cell at Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre, but they still have no information about how he died. Dylan Levi Judd's embalmed remains bore...

Big and Rich returning to Merritt

JOINS DIERKS BENTLEY, LADY ANTEBELLUM AND OTHERS MERRITT - Dierks Bentley was announced as the Saturday night headliner for the Rockin’ River Fest in Merritt back in November and now several other big country names are set to join him. Big and Rich, who have previously performed in Merritt, will return to close out the...

Highway 1 closed for avalanche control Friday

AVALANCHE RISK AGAIN HIGH THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - If you are heading east for the long weekend you might want to adjust your travel times. In addition to a winter driving advisory from the Shuswap to the Alberta border, delays of up to three hours are expected on Highway 1 through Glacier National Park on Friday. Drive...

Fight to save Stuart Wood goes legal

CONSULTATION PROCESS ‘DEEPLY FLAWED’ KAMLOOPS - A group upset with the planned closure of Stuart Wood School is hoping to make it a key election issue after a lawyer allegedly found several deficiencies in the way the district handled the decision. Bruce Thomson, the acting chair of the Downtown and West End Residents’ Association, says...