News Items tag as: Thompson Nicola Regional District 2024

TNRD gives way to residential RVs for North Thompson mobile home park
June 02, 2024 - 3:30 PM
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The Thompson Nicola Regional District changed course on residential RVs last month, giving permission to a North Thompson mobile home park to let residents live in them for at least the next three years.
Man in 20s dies in house fire in Blackpool north of Kamloops
May 09, 2024 - 8:21 AM

A young man died in a house fire in the small community of Blackpool about 115 kilometres north of Kamloops along Highway 5 North Wednesday.
Doomed effort to reduce Thompson-Nicola rural taxes slammed by municipal officials
February 23, 2024 - 6:00 AM

A proposal that would reduce the bulk of an impending tax hike for rural residents had a rural director of the Thompson Nicola Regional District battling against municipal directors.
Rural director questions if Lytton rebuild is viable
January 22, 2024 - 7:00 PM

It's been more than two years since a wildfire wiped out the village of Lytton and governments have little to show for their rebuild promises.
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THOMPSON: Is dining etiquette a thing of the past?
OPINION I read a recent article that tried to make a case for getting rid of some rules of dining etiquette. Those rules, said the writer, “are made to be broken.” The writer’s logic seems flawed, at

$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

Don't demolish old Kelowna homes to make way development, recycle or move them
As Kelowna’s population grows the city is trying to densify housing and that means replacing single-family homes, but a business has proposed that those homes can be repurposed rather than destroyed. Renewal Development and Light Hous

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CALGARY - The Transportation Safety Board says a fiery collision between...
March 31, 2025 9:00 PM
Don't demolish old Kelowna homes to make way development, recycle or move them
As Kelowna’s population grows the city is trying to densify housing and that...
March 31, 2025 7:00 PM
Ombudsperson call for council conduct oversight by province gets support in Kamloops
Elected officials in Kamloops would welcome provincial oversight in the...
March 31, 2025 6:00 PM
B.C. NDP fast-tracking end of consumer carbon tax, Eby says gas to drop 17 cents
British Columbia's government was fast-tracking the end of its consumer...
March 31, 2025 5:26 PM
Kelowna council approves extra $1.3M for Prospera Place upgrades
The cost overruns for the upgrades at Prospera Place in Kelowna are going to...
March 31, 2025 4:46 PM

TNRD gives way to residential RVs for North Thompson mobile home park