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RCMP seize drugs and weapons from Merritt home after gun threat
KAMLOOPS - A reported gun threat led to a drug bust in Merritt Tuesday (June 2). Merritt RCMP say they responded to a report of threats involving a firearm although a specific time was not provided in a news release issued Wednesday. Police were told the suspect fled to a home in the 2100-block of Quilchena Avenue befo...
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Findlay's election creates opportunity for those in the middle
KAMLOOPS - Soccer jokes and B.C. politics had their moment in the sun during the demise of BC United. But with the election of Kerry-Lynne Findlay on Saturday (May 30) and the World Cup just days away, former B.C. minister and Kamloops MLA Terry Lake felt it apt to bring it back in vogue. "Here was a party looking...
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STK Fastball Tournament coming to Charles Anderson Stadium
KAMLOOPS - The fourth annual STK Fastball Tournament is scheduled to run from Friday (June 5) to Sunday at Charles Anderson Stadium. International players, along with current and former national team members, will take to the diamond for the eight-team tournament, which is a qualifier for the ISC World Tournament this ...
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Allan Schoenborn seeks 1-year conditional discharge, 18 years after killing his children in Merritt
PORT COQUITLAM - Allan Schoenborn is seeking a one-year conditional discharge from the B.C. Review Board, 18 years after killing his three children.Schoenborn was found guilty of killing five-year-old Cordon, eight-year-old Max and 10-year-old Kaitlynne in their Merritt, B.C., home, but was deemed not criminally respon...
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Man cleared of Kamloops beating death now charged in Langley shooting death
LANGLEY - A man initially accused in a 2025 homicide in Kamloops has now been arrested and charged in a shooting death in the Lower Mainland.Justin Hopkins-Jones, 37, was arrested last October and charged in the September 27, 2025 beating death of 39-year-old Jason Pinette near the Merit Place shelter on Notre Dame Dri...
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Man accused in Surrey killing arrested in Kamloops last week: police
KAMLOOPS - Police in the Lower Mainland say the suspect in a January shooting death in Surrey was arrested last week in Kamloops.The case dates back to January 13, when police responded to a man lying near the street in the 3500-block of 176th Street in Surrey. The man was suffering from gunshot wounds and was pronounc...
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BC Ferries to implement 5% fuel surcharge across all routes starting June 16
VICTORIA - BC Ferries has become the latest transportation service provider to levy a fuel surcharge in the wake of high oil prices triggered by conflict in the Middle East. The operator says in a statement that a temporary, five per cent surcharge wil...
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Bodies of missing paddleboarders recovered from lake in B.C. park
SQUAMISH - Mounties in Squamish, B.C., say the bodies of two people who went missing while paddleboarding on Browning Lake in Murrin Provincial Park last weekend have been found. The Sea to Sky RCMP say in a news release that police received a report a...
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Wildfire in B.C. central Interior prompts evacuation alert
WILLIAMS LAKE - The Cariboo Regional District has issued an evacuation alert for properties due an out of control wildfire. The notice says the alert covers 22 parcels and nearly 180 square kilometres of land as the so-called Swede Creek Wildfire burns...
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Worlds qualifier
STK Fastball Tournament coming to Charles Anderson Stadium
KAMLOOPS - The fourth annual STK Fastball Tournament is scheduled to run from Friday (June 5) to Sunday at Charles Anderson Stadium. International players, along with current and former national team members, will take to the diamond for the eight-team tournament, which is a qualifier for the ISC World Tournament this ...
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Stankoven of Hurricanes offers analysis on Stanley Cup Final matchup against Golden Knights
Logan Stankoven and his Carolina Hurricanes are scheduled to host the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on Tuesday [June 2] in Raleigh, North Carolina. Stankoven looked ahead at the series with Marty Hastings of CFJC on Sunday [May 31].Below is the question-and-answer session, which has been edite...
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Proud sister Stankoven in Raleigh for Stanley Cup Final, loving life among Caniacs
KAMLOOPS - Macie Stankoven became accustomed in childhood to the cacophony emanating from the garage while her big brother Logan blasted tunes and shots - countless, endless shots. "Yeah, definitely," Macie said with a laugh. "The music was so loud and the bar was always hitting. He used to always show ...
Jun 02, 2026
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Activists call on feds to put pressure on Israel over treatment of Gaza aid flotilla
OTTAWA - Canadian activists detained by Israel last month while taking part in an aid flotilla trying to reach Gaza say Canada isn't doing enough to call out treatment by Israeli officials that Ottawa has called appalling. Prime Minister Mark Carney an...
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Conservative MP says First Nations votes will be critical in Alberta referendum
OTTAWA - Conservative MP Billy Morin says he will spend the summer talking to Indigenous leaders about encouraging people to vote in the Alberta referendum. Albertans are set to vote in October on whether they want to stay in Canada or prefer to hold a...
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Quebec's first tornado of 2026 touches down in Saguenay region, researchers say
MONTREAL - Researchers say Quebec's first recorded tornado of 2026 touched down in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region on May 25. The Northern Tornadoes Project at Western University says the tornado damaged a roof, snapped a tree and toppled a recreationa...
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Tropical Storm Amanda is the first of the Pacific hurricane season, meteorologists say
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Amanda formed Wednesday in the Pacific Ocean, marking the first tropical cyclone of the season, the National Hurricane Center said. Amanda was located about 1,475 miles (2,375 kilometers) west-southwest of the ...
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FBI fatally shoots a man holding hostages in a California office building, police say
A man who was holding hostages inside a California office building for more than 15 hours was shot and killed by the FBI early Wednesday, police said. The hostages were found unharmed inside the downtown Bakersfield building that houses ...
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UK Royal Navy says 3 members died in a helicopter crash during a training exercise
LONDON (AP) - Britain's Royal Navy said Wednesday that three of its members died in a helicopter crash earlier in southwest England during a training exercise. The helicopter went down in the county of Devon in England at 4 a.m. ...
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