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POLICE – Library area temporarily shut down after morning bomb scare

January 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

A bomb scare shut down several blocks of the Kamloops downtown area for a few hours today (Jan. 4, 2019) as police searched the main library on Victoria Street. Sgt. Kelly [Continue]

EDITORIAL – New impaired-driving laws will test our civil freedoms

December 20, 2018 // 7 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ARE WE BECOMING a police state? Not yet, but the new impaired-driving laws that came into effect this week certainly give police a [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Charge for overnight parking downtown? What’s next?

December 1, 2018 // 1 Comment

Not all ideas amount to anything, but without them nothing ever gets done THERE ARE HOPEFUL SIGNS from City council chambers. Rookies are sometimes afflicted by a bad case of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – ‘Inadmissible patrons policy’ raises plenty of questions

November 28, 2018 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. KAMLOOPS WILL GET a new policing program at the end of the week aimed at making bars, restaurants and other businesses safer places to be. [Continue]

POLICE – Three-vehicle collision closes Victoria Street West for an hour

November 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

A three-vehicle collision closed Victoria Street West near Emerald House today (Nov. 20, 2018) for more than an hour. Four people were taken to hospital with minor injuries [Continue]

POLICE – RCMP continue investigation into disappearance, suspected murder

November 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

Police are continuing the investigation into the disappearance and apparent murder of Kamloops man Troy Gold. Human remains have been found in the Lac Du Bois grasslands but [Continue]