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Safety and practicality concerns around Tranquille Road upgrades

KAMLOOPS – A plan intended to make a stretch of Tranquille Road close to the airport not only safer, but also more pleasing to the eye, garnered a lot of attention at an open house Wednesday.  The three kilometers of roadway from Desmond Street to Airport Road was the subject of an open house June...

$7.4M Tranquille Road project set for public open house

KAMLOOPS – Improvements to the Tranquille Road corridor are set to focus on landscaping, multi-use paths and signage, and could cost $7.4 million. The Tranquille Road Beautification Task Force presented an extremely detailed plan of how to better roughly three kilometers from Desmond Street to Airport Road to council on Tuesday afternoon. Much of the...

New lane closure impacts traffic flow during Overlanders Bridge construction

KAMLOOPS - While construction is moving forward on the Overlanders Bridge, the latest lane closure will add to the traffic delays over the next four weeks. Starting at 6 a.m. Friday morning, crews closed the Fortune Drive overpass and the northbound off ramp. Crews have also adjusted the Leigh Road and Fortune Drive traffic signal....

Search on for North Shore robbery suspect

KAMLOOPS – A man who produced a knife in a robbery at a North Shore convenience store this morning is on the run and RCMP are now looking for help in finding the man. Police officers are searching for a male suspect after the Mac’s Convenience Store on Tranquille Road was robbed before 5 a.m....

Riverside stabbing has police looking for suspect

KAMLOOPS – RCMP are investigating a riverside stabbing which took place on the 100 block of Tranquille Road around 5 p.m. on May 21. According to Cpl. Cheryl Bush, a man went to a tented area to speak with a woman when he was approached and stabbed by another man unknown to him. The victim’s...