Cooking Marathon
Kamloops woman restarts attempt to break Guinness World Record for longest cooking marathon
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops woman has restarted her attempt to break the world record for longest cooking marathon after an unexpected medical emergency.Zainab Oladipo, who owns Afrofusion on Victoria Street downtown, had to put her previous record attempt on hold around 86 hours into her marathon cooking session. "Duri...
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MATERNITY CARE OPTIONS
First Steps Clinic reassuring expectant families of care options after notice of changes at RIH
KAMLOOPS - While potential maternity care changes related to short-staffing were announced at Royal Inland Hospital two weeks ago, the prenatal care at the First Steps Early Pregnancy Triage Clinic is continuing as normal. Clinic Lead Joanna Norman says it's busy but the first and second trimester care at First Steps i...
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Stay Ahead of the Curve with Kamloops' Trusted Property Manager - Rohit Kumar
May 20, 2025
Stay Ahead of the Curve with Kamloops' Trusted Property Manager - Rohit Kumar
Two and Out
PETERS: With Hot Nite in the City, we celebrate our freedom and scorn more logical forms of transportation
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Looped In
LOOPED IN WITH NIKKI OMEN: August 7, 2025
Aug 07, 2025
Kamloops and Area
Dragon Boat Festival
Kamloops Dragon Boat Festival to celebrate 30th anniversary this weekend
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Dragon Boat Festival will be returning to the South Thompson River for its 30th anniversary this Saturday (Aug. 9).While much of the attention will be on Ribfest and Hot Nite in the City, organizers promise a full day of races with events scheduled at Riverside Park from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m...
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Columbia Paving
Some paving work on Columbia Street scheduled this month to minimize future traffic disruptions in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has released information about a pair of upcoming projects on Columbia Street, one of which will get underway in a little over a week's time.In a news release issued Friday (Aug. 8), the city says paving work on Columbia Street between First Avenue to Third Avenue will begin on Aug. 18 a...
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Job Numbers
Kamloops-area unemployment rate rises to 10.7% in July
KAMLOOPS - New data from Statistics Canada shows the unemployment rate in the Kamloops census metropolitan area was into the double digits in the month of July. The data released Friday (Aug. 8) showed the unemployment rate in the Kamloops area - which includes the city of Kamloops, Sun Peaks, Logan Lake, and Chase - i...
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Mental Health
CMHA BC working on mental health supports to address impacts of recurring climate emergencies
KAMLOOPS - Numerous branches of the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) are coming together to discuss the impacts of extreme weather events and climate emergencies on people's mental health and well-being.CMHA BC says it has been working with its local branches in the Interior and the North - including the one i...
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Stay Ahead of the Curve with Kamloops' Trusted Property Manager - Rohit Kumar
"I'm Rohit Kumar, born and raised in Kamloops, and I've witnessed our market's shifts firsthand. My mission is to keep investors ahead of the curve." As a property manager with RE/MAX Commercial Solutions, Rohit Kumar combines local insight with years of hands-on experience to ensure owners and investors maxi...
May 20, 2025
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Guide Dogs
CNIB in need of volunteers to foster future service dogs across Canada
It's a rewarding experience filled with unconditional love and the opportunity to change the life of someone who is blind. Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Guide Dogs is urgently looking for volunteers to raise future guide dogs for people who are blind, Deafblind, or have low vision."There's a hug...
Jul 23, 2025
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Art of Gardening
Art of Gardening - Shaping Ornamental Maples
Ornamental trees like the Japanese and Korean maples are indeed beautiful to have in your yard, but where's the best place to plant them and how do you make them look like the fancy ones you see in magazines? Maury Hik from Art Knapp Garden Centre and Florist in Kamloops takes time to show you some of the basics about ...
Jun 18, 2025
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British Columbia
U.S. in final decision to hike Canadian softwood duties, tells officers to collect
The U.S. Department of Commerce says it has made a final decision to more than double countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber imports, a move business groups in British Columbia say will harm communities on both sides of the border. A statement from the American department says the duty for most Canadian comp...
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B.C. First Nation wins rights, title along Fraser River's south arm in Lower Mainland
VICTORIA - A Vancouver Island First Nation has won back fishing rights and title for part of the land its ancestors used as a summer home in the Lower Mainland, despite opposition by two other Indigenous communities. A B.C. Supreme Court judge says in a written decision posted Friday that the Cowichan Tribes have estab...
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Phoney wildfire images cause confusion on social media. Here are steps to spot them
This week, the BC Wildfire Service posted on Facebook two aerial view images of wildfires raging across densely forested terrain with aircraft attempting to douse the flames. The images were dramatic, compelling and, the service warned, completely fake. It was an example of a trend that has emerged with the increased a...
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Local Sports
NORTHPAWS BASEBALL
NorthPaws wrap up fourth WCL season with lopsided victory; miss playoffs for third straight season
KAMLOOPS - Season Number 4 of NorthPaws baseball in Kamloops concluded on Wednesday (Aug. 6) evening in a matchup versus the Port Angeles Lefties. The game meant nothing in the standings for either squad, with both teams on the outside of the playoff picture on the final day of the West Coast League (WCL) regular seaso...
Aug 07, 2025
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NorthPaws Win Final Series
NorthPaws blow out Lefties 21-8 to wrap up 2025 West Coast League season
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops NorthPaws ended the 2025 West Coast League (WCL) season on a high note. After splitting the first two games of their final series, a 2-1 win on Monday and a 15-11 loss on Tuesday, the NorthPaws blew out the Port Angeles Lefties at Norbrock Stadium Wednesday (Aug. 6) night 21-8. The NorthPaws put...
Aug 07, 2025
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Behm to ASU
Blazers forward Behm commits to Arizona State University for 2026-27 season
KAMLOOPS - One of the Kamloops Blazers' leading scorers will not play out his entire junior career in the Western Hockey League (WHL). In a post to social media Tuesday (Aug. 5) night, Blazers forward Nathan Behm announced he has committed to play National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I hockey with t...
Aug 06, 2025
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Canada
Canada's 2025 wildfire season now second-worst on record, fuelled by Prairies blazes
TORONTO - Canada's 2025 wildfire season is now the second-worst on record. The latest figures posted by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre suggest the fires have torn through 72,000 square kilometres, an area roughly the size of New Brunswick. That surpasses the next worst season in 1989 and is about half the ...
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PM Carney says Israel taking over Gaza City will hurt both Palestinians and hostages
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Israel's announced plan to take over part of the Gaza Strip will further a humanitarian crisis for Palestinians and hostages. Israel's cabinet has approved a plan today to take control of Gaza City, with the country's foreign ministry saying it does not want to take over the Pal...
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Carney announces 20% increase in military starting pay
TRENTON - Ottawa is hiking entry-level pay for Canadian Armed Forces privates by 20 per cent for the regular force and 13 per cent for reservists, Prime Minister Mark Carney said at CFB Trenton on Friday. That means the annual salary for a new recruit will go from $43,368 to $52,044. Other military members will also re...
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World
Active shooter reported at Emory University in Atlanta, authorities say
ATLANTA (AP) - Police were responding Friday to a report of an active shooter on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, near the entrance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta police did not immediately say whether anyone was injured in the shooting. The university warned students and others on...
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A man suspected of killing 4 people at a Montana bar is in custody, authorities say
ANACONDA, Montana (AP) - Authorities said Friday they have captured dead a man suspected in a shooting at a Montana bar that left four people dead and prompted a lockdown of a neighborhood. Michael Paul Brown, 45, was captured seven days after the Aug. 1 shooting at The Owl Bar in Anaconda, about a hundred miles (190 k...
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Trump says he will meet with Putin 'very shortly' to discuss the war in Ukraine
DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) - U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he will meet "very shortly" with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the war in Ukraine and that he will announce the location soon. "We're going to be announcing later, and we're going to have a meeting with Russi...
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