Jessica Wallace

WILL THE CITY STAND FOR THIS? KAMLOOPS - 'Chairorists' are picking up where the city has fallen down in providing some additional seating to the downtown core in Kamloops. A YouTube video posted online Oct. 27 titled 'Chair Bomber' cites a lack of benches on Victoria Street and explains how an anonymous 'Chair Bomber' decided...

KAMLOOPS - It's been more than 50 years since a toddler went missing outside of Kamloops, but Kamloops Search and Rescue are taking another look this weekend in hopes of aiding police in the cold case. Kamloops RCMP recently reopened the cold case of missing 21-month-old Edna Bette-Jean Masters, last seen playing outside near Red...

KAMLOOPS - A 60-year-old woman has been banned from every casino in the province after pleading guilty today to theft under $5,000. Loreta Debonis pleaded guilty to two counts of theft under $5,000 today in Kamloops provincial court for two unrelated incidents. Provincial court judge Stella Frame called her crimes a 'tragedy' at her age...

FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS TO VISIT PLANE CRASH SCENE KAMLOOPS - Teenagers in B.C. can't get behind the wheel of a car until they are 16 years old, but if they're eager to take the driver's seat, they can get a student pilot permit to operate an aeroplane when they're just 14. Unlike the 16-year-old drivers with...

KAMLOOPS - A young pilot who went missing after a lone flight on Tuesday morning has been found dead near Cache Creek. Search members found the Single Prop 172 Cessna plane crashed west of Kamloops in the hills near Cache Creek around 6:30 p.m. tonight. It had been missing since Tuesday when the lone pilot...

All campfires will be prohibited across the Kamloops Fire Centre beginning on Thursday. "We've been at a pretty escalated fire danger rating for quite some time now," said Kevin Skrepnek, fire information officer. "This decision was necessary." The areas affected are demonstrated in the map to the left and include Vernon, Penticton and Kelowna as...

VANCOUVER MODELING AGENCY RECRUITING IN KAMLOOPS KAMLOOPS - The next big supermodel could be working at Starbucks in Valleyview, walking down Victoria Street, or pumping gas at the Chevron on the way to Vancouver. And the Lizbell Agency team will be keeping their eyes peeled in Kamloops next week until they head back home to...

"THIS WAS SO TIMELY, IT WAS JUST INCREDIBLE" KAMLOOPS - For one InfoTel reader, winning a recent online sweepstakes was more than some contest — it was 'divine intervention.' Sharlene Klein, of Kamloops said winning our Las Vegas trip meant more to her than being randomly selected for the grand prize. She says it was her...

EXOTIC DANCER SEES STRIP CLUBS AS 'DYING INDUSTRY' KAMLOOPS — A veteran exotic dancer will face a financial hit now that there aren't any strip clubs left in Kamloops, and she's likely not alone. Mandy Powers lives in Kelowna and works for multiple agencies that book her exotic dancing gigs throughout B.C. and Alberta. Before...

Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals shocked the province last night by winning a majority government. Not only did Clark and her party receive a healthy amount of bad publicity early on, but pollsters labeled them the underdog party, predicting an NDP government led by Adrian Dix. British Columbians took to the polls yesterday and...

Local musicians will have the opportunity to once again prove themselves this summer in the fifth annual Peak Performance Project. To take part in the music competition, artists and bands are asked to submit an online application to Music B.C. and the Peak radio station for the chance to win a grand prize of $102,700....

By Jessica Wallace The local avalanche centre is warning recreational backcountry enthusiasts that avalanche warnings in the region are expected to tip towards the end of the danger scale tomorrow. Avalanche forecaster for the Canadian Avalanche Centre, Penny Goddard, said these warnings typically increase during this time of the year. "During those periods we don't...

By Jessica Wallace

With outbreaks of the Norovirus in Kamloops and elsewhere throughout the province, Interior Health wants residents to take precautions to prevent further spreading. Interior Health senior medical officer Dr. Andrew Larder says it infects through contact from person to person. "It's a virus that spreads through the faecal oral route. It is spread by that...

Whether you choose to hunt for a Christmas tree in B.C.'s backyard or you purchase one from a local garden centre, holiday traditions continue evolving this year. The province's free Christmas tree program offers an authentic and educational holiday activity for the family, says a revenue officer at the Okanagan Shuswap Forest District branch of...

Kamloops drivers are getting a break at the pump paying about 10 cents less per litre than the provincial and national averages. User-based online gas price registry, GasBuddy.com, reports an average cost of 121.4 cents per litre for regular gasoline in B.C. while the national average sits at about 120.9. Most Kamloops gas stations are...