BC Hydro repairs
BC Hydro beginning work to repair fire-damaged infrastructure in BC Interior
KAMLOOPS - BC Hydro is in the early phases of repairing 'unprecedented' infrastructure damage left by the Big Bar Complex and Brunswick Complex wildfires, which cut power to about 1,200 customers.BC Hydro said about 1,100 customers remain without power because of the the Big Bar Complex, where the power company said pr...
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Strategic Priorities Fund
Kamloops wins $7M grant for arts centre lobby; millions more awarded for Savona, Ashcroft water projects
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has won a $7-million federal grant for its Centre for the Arts project.Kamloops was included in a list of successful funding recipients through the Strategic Priorities Fund, administered by the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM).The funding will chiefly be directed to the facility's main...
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Our Community
SOUND OFF
SOUND OFF: Expanding our EV charging network
Jul 29, 2026
Foliage Shade Garden
Art of Gardening: Foliage Shade Garden
Question of the Week
Should there be more City of Kamloops lifeguards monitoring the Thompson River?
Jul 27, 2026
Looped In
LOOPED IN WITH NIKKI OMEN: July 27, 2026
Jul 27, 2026
Kamloops and Area
Highway Watch
Extra caution urged on 'low-volume' Highway 24 amid Cariboo Highway closure
100 MILE HOUSE, B.C. - Residents are being asked to drive with extra care when traveling on Highway 24 between the Clearwater and 100 Mile House areas. BC Highway Patrol says its officers are focused on stopping excessive speeding, distracted and impaired driving and unsafe passing. The public call comes as Highway 97 ...
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Water Restrictions
Kamloops reports 16 per cent reduction in water use after Drought Level 4 restrictions implemented
KAMLOOPS - Enhanced water use restrictions have been in place in Kamloops for a little over a week, and the city says it is already seeing the desired outcome. The Drought Level 4 watering restrictions took effect last Monday (July 20), and Robert Wagner, the City of Kamloops' Utility Services Manager, says it already ...
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House Fire
Kamloops Fire Rescue knocks down house fire in Sagebrush neighbourhood
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops resident is uninjured but was forced to leave their Sagebrush home after a notable house fire. Kamloops Fire Rescue (KFR) responded to the 1000-block of Fraser Street at around 8:15 p.m. Wednesday (July 29). KFR Platoon Chief Ken Hartt says four trucks and 14 personnel were on scene. It took crews...
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IN THE BCFC
Quarterback Rigler takes reins of hometown Kamloops Broncos
KAMLOOPS - Cole Rigler will always remember his first throw for his hometown Kamloops Broncos, a deep-ball completion to his old high school teammate Hudson Jones on the first play of his B.C. Football Conference career. "I think that was the game plan since the first practice of the season," Rigler said. &q...
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Featured Content
Foliage Shade Garden
Art of Gardening: Foliage Shade Garden
If you have a bit of shade in your garden, take advantage of it! Here's Shawn to let you know what to plant.
Jun 24, 2026
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Native Restoration Plants
Art of Gardening: Native Restoration Plants
What happens when a natural area on your property gets damaged by construction or wildfire? According to Shawn, it's got a lot higher chance of sticking around if you plant what's native to the area.
Jun 18, 2026
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Oh, Deer!
Art of Gardening: Oh, Deer!
Jun 10, 2026
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British Columbia
Angelo Isidorou is out as executive director of BC Conservatives as shakeup continues
VICTORIA - Angelo Isidorou is out as executive director of the BC Conservatives, as a shakeup in the provincial opposition ranks continues. Isidorou says in a statement issued by the party that his role in taking the Conservatives to the brink of power...
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Burned chimney all that remains of woman's home after wildfire near Clinton, B.C.
CLINTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA - A resident from British Columbia's Cariboo region says there's nothing left around her property on Six Mile Lake other than her burnt-out chimney stack and her neighbour's propane tank. Carol Senzeni said she got the news by...
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Pear Lake Fire
No word on return for Clinton, B.C., residents as fire burns watershed, power lines
The chair of the board in British Columbia's fire-stricken Thompson-Nicola Regional District says that for a lot of people, the wildfires burning in the area will be "one of the most traumatizing events" they'll live through. Barbara Roden told an onli...
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Local Sports
IN THE BCFC
Quarterback Rigler takes reins of hometown Kamloops Broncos
KAMLOOPS - Cole Rigler will always remember his first throw for his hometown Kamloops Broncos, a deep-ball completion to his old high school teammate Hudson Jones on the first play of his B.C. Football Conference career. "I think that was the game plan since the first practice of the season," Rigler said. &q...
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Canadian champion
Fastest female: 15-year-old Pretorius of Kamloops makes statement at nationals
KAMLOOPS - "Is this the right time? With a time of 5:10.39, from Gravity MTB Racing, winning U17 Expert Women and it's also the fastest time of every woman on the mountain today, give it up for Megan Pretorius!" Master of ceremonies Brett Tippie made the announcement at the Dunbar Summer Series Canadian Down...
Jul 29, 2026
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Junior Hockey
Blazers' Tate to compete at Hlinka Gretzky Cup; Lafreniere, Hurlbert at World Junior Summer Showcase
KAMLOOPS - It might be the middle of summer, but a number of Kamloops Blazers have hockey on their minds.Goaltender Kaeden Tate has been named to the United States roster for the 2026 Hlinka Gretzky Cup in Edmonton. The native of Huntington Beach, Calif. is one of three netminders on the U.S. team, which will be aiming...
Jul 28, 2026
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Canada
Mediation and legislation: How the government could step into a WestJet strike
OTTAWA - The union representing WestJet flight attendants has issued a 72-hour strike notice, meaning workers could go on strike as soon as Sunday at 12:01 a.m. MT. Here's how the federal government could get involved if flight attendants go on strike....
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A quick look at recent airline labour disputes
Over the past three years, strikes by Air Canada flight attendants and WestJet mechanics have briefly brought operations at the country's two biggest airlines shuddering to a halt, and the threat of job action from pilots at WestJet and Air Transat was...
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Were you planning to fly WestJet? What you need to know about the looming strike
Air travellers planning to fly WestJet may be concerned about the possibility of disruptions due to a potential strike. A work stoppage looms for 4,400 flight attendants at Canada's second-largest air carrier after their union issued a 72-hour strike ...
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World
Mandela Barnes drops out of the Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Mandela Barnes dropped out of Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor on Thursday, further shaking up the race less than two weeks before the Aug. 11 election. The former lieutenant governor made the announcement in...
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Colin Gray, who gave his son the gun used in Georgia school shooting, is sentenced to 15 years
A man who gave his son the gun he used to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Georgia was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison. Colin Gray's sentencing comes days after his son, Colt Gray, was sentenced to l...
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Coal mine blast in Pakistan kills at least 18 miners and traps 24 others
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - An explosion inside a coal mine in southwest Pakistan killed at least 18 miners Thursday and trapped 24 others underground in what officials believed to be life-threatening conditions as rescuers raced to reach them. ...
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