Hope News

If the Merritt & District Chamber of Commerce had any knowledge of history they should be spitting mad.

By Kerrie-Ann Schoenit - Hope Standard Published: May 25, 2012 8:44 PM Updated: May 25, 2012 8:44 PM A crash in the Richmond Hill area on Thursday shut down Flood-Hope Road in both directions for several hours.

Melodie Richards, with two-year-old son Ryder, showed a replica of the Rick Hansen Medal, created by the Royal Canadian Mint.

A once-dormant mining operation near Merritt is one step closer to producing silver again with the issuance of a Mines Act permit on Friday.

The Canadian government has raised the ire of American tuna fishermen by cutting off their Canadian port privileges just as exploratory talks are set to start over the lucrative Canada-U.S. albacore fishery.

President and CEO Edwin Morrow announced today that the joint venture with Big Rock Resources LTD on the Lucky 13 Placer project in Hope, BC has been amicably terminated by the terms of the JV Agreement.

The B.C. Coroners Service has identified the Nanaimo man who died in a crash on the Coquihalla Highway on the weekend.

The identity of the pick-up truck driver involved in a single-vehicle crash on the Coquihalla Highway on Sunday has been released.

Sally Gosse of Kamloops is shown with some of the children of the Neema orphanage and school in Kenya, where she volunteered for a month last fall.

By Staff Writer - Kamloops This Week Published: May 02, 2012 4:00 PM Updated: May 02, 2012 4:33 PM Leo Baskatawang wants to unshackle from Canada the ball and chain that is the Indian Act - and, he's doing it one step at a time as he marches to Ottawa.

A 44-year-old Nanaimo man has been identified as the only victim of a fatal single-vehicle crash on the Coquihalla Highway north of Hope on Sunday morning.

A 44-year-old Nanaimo man has been identified as the victim of the fiery crash on Highway 5 near Hope, B.C. RCMP had asked for help identifying the victim because the blaze was so intense that it was almost impossible to determine the type of pickup truck or whether more than one person was in the cab.

RCMP Sergeant Peter Thiessen says the pos- crash fire was so intense, police can't tell if there was more than one person in the vehicle.