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To further enhance the integrity of the passport issuance process, Passport Canada is implementing changes to its birth certificate requirements for general passport applications.

The on-again off-again relationship between the Tk’emlups Indian Band (TIB) and the Kamloops Exhibition Association (KXA) appears to be off again — for good.

The Little Fort Rec Society recently received a grant through the federal government’s New Horizons for Seniors Program, which was presented to the group by MP Cathy Mcleod. The money is already being put to good use in the Society’s “Back to Basics and Beyond”, a series of workshops and information sessions which focus on seniors, either as instructors, or as participants.

The Industry Training Authority and the Transportation Career Development Association (transCDA) are offering assessments at Thompson Rivers University in January and February.

On Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 9:15 p.m., Barriere RCMP were called to a motor vehicle crash on Highway 5 near Heffley Creek.

KAMLOOPS – Interior Health has sent letters to approximately 9,000 patients who underwent endoscopic (scoping) procedures at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops between March 6, 2008, and July 15, 2010, notifying them that the scopes used in their procedures may not have received full disinfection.

The Dec. 6, District of Barriere council meeting started with a short public meeting for those interested in discussing the District of Barriere Fire Regulation Bylaw #55.