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Ashcroft’s primary care centre closed on Saturday
The Urgent and Primary Care Centre in Ashcroft won’t be open tomorrow. Interior Health announced…
Proposed solar farm near Ashcroft could power 30,000 homes
A Canadian company is planning to build a solar farm south of Ashcroft that could…
Ashcroft ranch giving away 50,000 lbs of cantaloupes for free
Desert Hills Ranch is giving away 50,000 pounds of cantaloupes that would have otherwise been…
One dead in fiery commercial truck collision on Trans-Canada in Fraser Canyon
A man from the Lower Mainland is dead after two commercial trucks collided along the…
BC citizenship medals go to pair of deserving Thompson-Okanagan residents
Two hardworking and selfless Thompson-Okanagan residents have been recognized by the province for their community…
Temporary foreign workers claim sexual abuse at Ashcroft farm
Three temporary workers from South American claim they were sexually abused and exploited while working…
UPDATE: Two wildfires merge south of Ashcroft; hundreds evacuated
Wildfires south of Ashcroft forced out more than a hundred rural residents out of their…
Cache Creek, Spences Bridge and Ashcroft featured in upcoming motion picture
Some Hollywood movie types were in the Thompson-Nicola region over the past few weeks filming…
RCMP looking for witnesses to attack that left a B.C. child seriously injured
ASHCROFT— RCMP officers are investigating an incident that left a four-year-old boy with serious but…
RCMP make arrest in deadly Cache Creek shooting
CACHE CREEK — RCMP have arrested and charged a Cache Creek man after a deadly…
Couple connect with Aussies who helped save their cabin during Elephant Hill wildfire
When last year’s wildfires roared through the Ashcroft area near Kamloops, a couple from Langley…
All evacuation alerts, orders related to Elephant Hill fire rescinded
Some massive progress was made on the Elephant Hill wildfire over the past few weeks,…
Angler convicted for poaching on closed Thompson River
KAMLOOPS – A man has been convicted of poaching after he was caught by a…
Some Elephant Hill wildfire evacuees returning home today
KAMLOOPS – Residents in the Clinton and Cache Creek areas evacuated by the Elephant Hill…
iN PHOTOS: B.C. wildfire rips through Ashcroft mobile home park
CACHE CREEK – The Ashcroft Reserve wildfire has left total destruction behind in the Boston…
UPDATE: RCMP dive team recovers woman’s body from Thompson River near Ashcroft
KAMLOOPS – A woman's body was recovered from a submerged pickup truck in the Thompson…
Lack of venting system behind fatal carbon monoxide leak near Ashcroft: B.C. Safety Authority
VENABLES VALLEY – The cause of carbon monoxide exposure that left a family of four…
UPDATE: Coroner says foul play ruled out in deaths of Venables Valley family
VENABLES VALLEY – The B.C. Coroners Service says foul play has been ruled out in…
Four people found dead in home south of Ashcroft; RCMP investigating
VENABLES VALLEY – RCMP along with the B.C. Coroners Service are investigating the deaths of…
Local artists get a Hollywood nod as Merritt mural hits the big screen
MERRITT – There’s a local connection to a new movie that premieres next month in…
Police need your help to find missing Ashcroft man
ASHCROFT – RCMP in Ashcroft are asking for the public's assistance in finding a missing…
UPDATE: Ed Gyoba was out of options for dealing with nephew before he was killed, wife says
KAMLOOPS — Shane Takeshi Gyoba was ‘broken’ in the years leading up to his uncle’s…
‘I thought I just witnessed somebody being murdered’
KAMLOOPS — The last thing Gil Anderson saw before he walked his daughter to school on the morning of June 2, 2014 were two silhouettes fist-fighting in his neighbour's yard before one knocked the other over and delivered three blows to its opponent’s head with a shovel. “After I heard the first strike of the...
Evidence at Ashcroft man’s murder trial includes bloody shovel and shallow grave for uncle
KAMLOOPS — What happened in a one-hour period last summer in Ashcroft is the centre of discussion in the latest murder trial taking place in Kamloops Supreme Court. Shane Takeshi Gyoba, 28, is accused of second-degree murder in the death of his uncle, Ed Gyoba, 66, whom he was living with in Ashcroft. In the...