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Vehicle thief handed nine months jail for stolen truck, ATVs

KAMLOOPS - A 22-year-old with a taste for stolen vehicles will spend the next four-and-a-half months in jail after pleading guilty to possessing a stolen pickup truck and two all terrain vehicles last spring. Justice Gary Weatherill handed Waylon Faulhafer a nine-month sentence yesterday, July 6 for his involvement in two separate stolen property files....

Upgrading your high school courses will now cost you

KAMLOOPS – Graduated adults looking to upgrade their high school courses, often to boost the GPA before applying to university, will now have to pay for those upgrades. Yesterday, July 6, the board of education agreed to start charging graduated adults to take courses, effective immediately. A standard 110-hour class will cost $570. The only...

NHL beach party this Friday at Kal Lake

VERNON - Get ready to have a beach day with some of your favourite National Hockey League players past and present in a fundraiser event for the Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation this weekend. On Friday, July 10, the National Hockey League Players’ Association, along with 20 players, will be at Kalamalka Beach for autographs, beach...

B.C. firefighters getting help from Ontario

BRITISH COLUMBIA - Crews fighting the nearly 200 wildfires raging across the province will get some help from our neighbours out east. A total of 70 personnel from Ontario are arriving today, July 7, to help with fires in the Coastal and Southeast Fire Centres. Two amphibious skimming aircraft, a birddog and an air attack...

Residents of burned out Sahali apartments might not return for months

KAMLOOPS - The cause of a fire that left one unit uninhabitable at an apartment building on Whiteshield Crescent South remains unknown, but an assistant fire chief says it’s ‘remarkable’ they were able to save the building given its construction. “It’s low end (damage) compared to what it could have been,” Dave McMahon of Kamloops...

The power of information during electrical failure

WHO HAS IT, WHO DOESN'T THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - When the power goes out, so do most of the things we depend on for life and business — lights, refrigerators, internet, air conditioning, point-of-sale machines, cash machines — and depending on which power company you use, so does information. The Thompson-Okanagan is divided between Fortis B.C. and...

Anti-bullying program legit, but RCMP not involved

"THE TELEMARKETERS ARE QUITE PUSHY IN THEIR ATTEMPTS TO GET PEOPLE TO SUPPORT THE (ANTI-BULLYING) CAMPAIGN" VERNON - RCMP say they are not behind numerous calls to residents asking for money to support an anti-bullying program, though the calls are legitimate. The Canadian Police Association has hired a contractor to campaign for donations for a...

Smoky skies advisory issued for entire Thompson-Okanagan region

THOMPSON OKANAGAN – If the visible smoke in the sky wasn't enough to warn you, a smoky skies advisory has now been issued for a large portion of the Southern Interior. The Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with the Interior Health Authority, has issued a smoky skies advisory for the Thompson, Shuswap, Nicola, Fraser Canyon,...

New trades program in the works for Thompson Rivers University

KAMLOOPS – Thompson Rivers University is preparing to expand its trades program to include instrumentation engineering, thanks in part to $2 million in federal funding. MP Cathy McLeod was on hand today, July 7, to announce the $2 million in federal funding. McLeod said she hopes this latest offering will continue the university’s goal of...

Blue piano replacement in the works following vandalism

KAMLOOPS – Within days of being vandalised beyond repair, the outpouring of love for the blue piano of downtown Kamloops has surprised the general manager of a downtown association. In an attempt to draw people downtown, the Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association placed a public piano near the corner Victoria Street and Third Avenue last...

Man accused of running down paper carrier during police chase won’t face judge until 2016

KELOWNA – A preliminary inquiry of prolific offender Donald Maxwell Brodie, accused of critically injuring a paper carrier while evading a police road block in 2013, has been set for early 2016. Brodie, 35, is charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm, flight causing bodily harm, impaired driving causing bodily harm and two counts of...