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Armstrong to receive his Olympic medal this weekend
KAMLOOPS - Nearly six months after being told he would in fact receive an Olympic medal for his 2008 shot put performance in Beijing and just a month after he turns 34, Dylan Armstrong will finally receive his bronze medal. In July 2013 it was announced the third place finisher Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus was...
UPDATE: Anti-tethering bylaw not on agenda for Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops will not be joining the ranks of the 14 municipalities and two regional districts that have alread put restrictions on tethering dogs outdoors. The B.C. SPCA has been lobbying councils across the province to adopt bylaws that help promote animal well-being and human responsibility. In late 2013 the Regional...
Mental health rehabilitation earns drug dealer lesser sentence
KAMLOOPS - A dial-a-dope drug dealer caught in an undercover RCMP operation was handed a one-year probationary sentence on Monday, Jan. 12 for dealing cocaine. Jeremy Machmer, 27, appeared in Kamloops Supreme Court where he pleaded guilty to trafficking cocaine. In September 2013, Machmer sold two rocks of the drug for fifty dollars to a...
Victim of fatal snowmobile crash near Sicamous identified
KELOWNA - The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died in a snowmobile accident near Sicamous. He was David Mark Yule, 49, from Blind Bay, a small community on the southwest shore of Shuswap Lake. Yule was operating a snowmobile on Owl Head Mountain, about 25 km southeast of Sicamous at...
Lorne Street will no longer be part of official truck route
KAMLOOPS - City staff is looking to amend the traffic bylaw to remove several downtown streets from the official truck route. Low-clearance underpasses, a roundabout, road improvements and park areas are listed as some of the many reasons for wanting to remove Lorne Street, River Street and 10 Avenue north of Victoria Street from the...
UPDATE: Semi fire on the Coquihalla
MERRITT – A tractor trailer loaded with lumber caught fire this morning Jan. 12 on the Coquihalla Highway south of Merritt. The semi was driving southbound at the Comstock exit when it started on fire, according to a tweet from VSA Highway Maintenance. The southbound lanes were closed for a couple hours until the burnt...
Temperatures continue upswing
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - After a dump of nearly 40 centimetres of snow in many parts of the Southern Interior we are now looking at temperatures above seasonal normals all week. According to Environment Canada we can expect to see highs of about 2 Celsius Monday and Tuesday and of 0 C Wednesday and Thursday. By the...