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Police allege impaired driver on Coquihalla was wanted, caught in stolen car
LOGAN LAKE – A report of an impaired driver helped police recover a stolen vehicle and arrest a man alleged to have broken into a home in Merritt this week. At around 8:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 13, Logan Lake RCMP were informed of a possibly impaired driver on the Coquihalla Highway between Merritt and...
Two North Okanagan-Shuswap school district properties up for sale
VERNON - The North Okanagan-Shuswap School District is putting two of its properties up for sale. The first is the former board office in Salmon Arm, which will be listed for $800,000, and the other is the old South Canoe School, on the market for $500,000. Board of Education chair Bobbi Johnson says Colliers International...
Kamloops court held up after youth collapses during sentencing
KAMLOOPS - A court hearing for a Kamloops youth ended with a 9-1-1 call today, Jan. 14, after she passed out as a judge handed her a jail sentence. The youth, who was already in custody and cannot be named due to a publication ban, was being sentenced for uttering threats and breaching probation. The...
Ajax will submit official mine application next week
KAMLOOPS - After years of delays, KGHM Ajax Mining Inc. will officially submit its application to the province next week. The company announced today it will submit its application and environmental impact statement for the Ajax Mine project on Jan. 18. The Environmental Assessment Office approved the package for submission in November and the company...
Principal frustrated with broken windows, vandalism at Kamloops elementary school
KAMLOOPS - A principal is thankful for those who called police to report a break and enter at a Brocklehurst elementary school this week. Deanna Brady, principal of AE Perry Elementary, says it’s ‘unfortunate’ the school had to replace several windows after someone attempted to break into the school Sunday, Jan. 10. “It’s such a...
Strike action won’t impact students: TRU Faculty Association
KAMLOOPS - Faculty at Thompson Rivers University still plan to initiate job action on Thursday, but say their position will not affect students or classes. The TRU Faculty Association announced on Monday, Jan. 11 it would strike by Thursday if no negotiations were in place with the university, which it has been at the bargaining table...
How swears, Shane Koyczan and a Nazi joke left a Merritt Grade 5 teacher in hot water
MERRITT - A teacher who made his students uncomfortable with his jokes and used swear words to discuss bullying with his Grade 5 students has been disciplined by the B.C. Teachers Regulation Board. Peter Schmid, a Grade 5 teacher at Diamond Vale Elementary, was referred to the board for incidents in the months of May and...
Kamloops Airport hits record numbers in 2015
KAMLOOPS - After a slow start to 2015 a record number of travellers still came through the gates at Fulton Field. The Kamloops Airport is reporting more than 32,000 travellers through the gates in December, for a total of 324,000 travellers in 2015. In 2014, more than 313,000 travellers used the local airport, which at...
Young Kamloops man who died at work identified
KAMLOOPS - The B.C. Coroners Service has identified the man who died while working at Inland Glass and Aluminum earlier this week. He was Reegan Joachim Winofsky, 23, of Kamloops. Regional coroner Larry Marzinzik says Winofsky experienced a medical event which left him unresponsive around 7:30 a.m., Jan. 11. Co-workers witnessed the incident, Marzinzik says...
Kamloops RCMP searching for owner of tin with sentimental jewelry
KAMLOOPS - Police are looking for the owner of a unique tin containing what appears to be sentimental jewelry after recovering the items following an arrest at the end of December. Two men were taken into custody on Dec. 28 for a break and enter at a compound on Cariboo Place, Cpl. Cheryl Bush, a...
Council lifts self-imposed gag order on Ajax delegations at meetings
KAMLOOPS - It took nearly an hour of back and forth between council members, but a vote allowing the public to again be able to speak about the proposed Ajax Mine during council meetings has passed. A moratorium was put in place on delegations and public enquiries regarding the proposed mine during council meetings after...
Buffalo hide produced by B.C. rancher featured in latest Leonardo DiCaprio film
70 MILE HOUSE - A buffalo farmer in the B.C. Interior has become famous in his own right after Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio showcased one of the hides made by at his ranch in the recently released film The Revenant. “It’s just great. I put so much work and labour and love into this stuff,”...
Faculty agrees to private mediation with university in wake of strike notice
KAMLOOPS - A private mediator will be brought in to help settle a nearly year-long labour dispute between faculty and administration at Thompson Rivers University. Faculty at the university agreed to private mediation with school administrators following a 72-hour strike notice that was delivered yesterday morning, Jan. 11. While the TRU Faculty Association have taken...
VIDEO: Security footage released of person breaking into Kamloops pharmacy
KAMLOOPS - A pharmacy owner is appealing to the public for more information on a break and enter that occured at the downtown store this week. Cpl. Cheryl Bush, a spokesperson for Kamloops RCMP, confirms the officers were called out just after midnight on Monday, Jan. 11, when an alarm was triggered at Pratt's Compounding...
Walsh to take another run at saving former Kamloops Daily News building
KAMLOOPS - After a confusing meeting back in December that left Coun. Denis Walsh frustrated by his own mistake, he plans on bringing the issue of saving the former Kamloops Daily News building back to council next week. Walsh announced in a news release he once again plans to ask council to rescind his own...