SUN PEAKS HEALTH CARE
Sun Peaks hits reset button on community health care
KAMLOOPS - The Supporting Team Excellence with Patients Society (STEPS) will no longer be operating the Sun Peaks Community Health Centre as of this October as the society and resort municipality have decided to go their separate ways. STEPS began operating the health centre back in 2023. Sun Peaks is now searching for...
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MATERNITY WARD
Interior Health says RIH maternity patients have all been treated in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - It's been one week since Interior Health announced possible staffing challenges in the maternity ward of Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) in Kamloops.Last Thursday (July 24), Interior Health stated expectant parents without a regular family or maternal care doctor will still be assessed at RIH but they may be sen...
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Our Community
Stay Ahead of the Curve with Kamloops' Trusted Property Manager - Rohit Kumar
May 20, 2025
Art of Gardening
Art of Gardening - Unique Specimen Trees
One Man's Opinion
COLLINS: Will we let Trump win?
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Sound Off
SOUND OFF: New BC cancer centre coming to Kamloops is the largest-ever investment in cancer services in the area
Jul 30, 2025
Kamloops and Area
ROADKILL
Hitting the brakes on animal-vehicle collisions near Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - According to the BC Conservation Foundation, highways can be detrimental to local wildlife populations and ecology. On average, ICBC tallies more than 12,000 animal-vehicle incidents every year, with more than 900 injuries reported. The region with the highest total is the Southern Interior, which includes K...
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Cantilever Bar Fire
Lytton-area fire eclipses 1,000ha
LYTTON, B.C. - The BC Wildfire Service says the Cantilever Bar wildfire south of Lytton is now more than 1,000 hectares in size.In an update to its website, the service says the fire - which sparked Monday (July 28) about 10 kilometres south of the community - is now mapped at 1,040 hectares.The service attributes the ...
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Toxic Drugs
Pace of drug deaths in Kamloops picked up over the past two months: BC Coroners Service
VICTORIA - The pace of drug overdose deaths has picked up in Kamloops, but the province says at the halfway point in 2025, the city is still trending well behind last year's pace. New numbers from the BC Coroners Service show 30 deaths attributed to drug toxicity in Kamloops through the first six months of the year. Th...
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Heffley Creek wildfires
BCWS ground and air crews attacking pair of wildfires near Heffley Creek
KAMLOOPS - The BC Wildfire Service says one of two wildfires burning in the Heffley Creek area north of Kamloops has grown to nearly five hectares in size.Information Officer Taylor Stewart-Shantz says there was a bit of growth on the Lyons Creek fire, which is located between Lyons Lake and Heffley-Louis Creek Road.&q...
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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
Police chief disappointed at alleged drug deals from chair outside consumption site
VICTORIA - Victoria's police chief says undercover operatives didn't have to look far to find evidence of criminality outside a safe consumption site in the city. A suspected cocaine dealer was selling drugs from a chair set up directly in front of the overdose prevention facility, Chief Del Manak said. The chief said ...
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Abbotsford, B.C., denies permit for MAGA singer Sean Feucht's show, citing protests
ABBOTSFORD - The City of Abbotsford in British Columbia's Fraser Valley says it will not issue a permit for a concert by Sean Feucht, becoming the latest Canadian cancellation for the American Christian musician who's outspoken in the Make America Great Again movement. The city said in a statement that the permit for a...
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'Getting out of control,' vigil held in B.C. to remember women who died in July
VANCOUVER - A small group gathered outside Vancouver's art gallery Thursday to remember several women who died recently in B.C. and call for changes within the justice system to prevent more such deaths. Dahye Son, an anti-violence worker at Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter, says femicide is getting "out ...
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Local Sports
Swim Worlds
Angove of Kamloops, Team Canada finish sixth in women's 4x200m freestyle relay at swimming world championships
SINGAPORE - Kamloops swimmer Sienna Angove and the rest of Team Canada finished in sixth place in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay at the world swimming championships in Singapore. The team of Angove, Brooklyn Douthwright, Ella Cosgrove and Ella Jansen finished with a time of 7:52.52, about 13 seconds behind the Aust...
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NATIONAL DUTY
De Palma of Blazers talks second crack at world juniors, role at summer showcase, NHL aspirations
KAMLOOPS - Dan De Palma's first experience at the World Junior Hockey Championship did not end on the podium, with Canada placing fifth at the 2025 tournament in Ottawa. Hockey Canada announced on Saturday (July 26) the Kamloops Blazers' director of goaltending development is part of the team that will aim to do better...
Jul 29, 2025
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Vernon's Vasek Pospisil bounced in final professional appearance in three sets
TORONTO - The Toronto Farewell Tour was short-lived. Veteran tennis player Vasek Pospisil, who confirmed last week that the National Bank Open in Toronto would be his final hurrah on the pro circuit, was eliminated Sunday in the first round of men's singles by qualifier Facundo Bagnis of Argentina at Sobeys Stadium. Ba...
Jul 28, 2025
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Canada
Trump hits Canada with 35 per cent tariffs
WASHINGTON - Canada has been hit with 35 per cent tariffs after U.S. President Donald Trump followed through on his threat to increase duties if Ottawa didn't agree to a trade deal. The White House said the tariffs would not affect goods compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade. Prime Minister Mark Carn...
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Trump pushed tariffs on Canada to 35 per cent, but a CUSMA carveout creates a shield
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump has increased tariffs on Canada to a staggering 35 per cent but a critical carveout is likely to shield most goods from the devastating duties. The White House has said the tariffs won't be applied to goods that are compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade, also ...
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Abbotsford, B.C., denies permit for MAGA singer Sean Feucht's show, citing protests
ABBOTSFORD - The City of Abbotsford in British Columbia's Fraser Valley says it will not issue a permit for a concert by Sean Feucht, becoming the latest Canadian cancellation for the American Christian musician who's outspoken in the Make America Great Again movement. The city said in a statement that the permit for a...
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World
El Salvador approves indefinite presidential reelection and extends presidential terms to 6 years
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the country's National Assembly on Thursday that will allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years. Lawmaker Ana Figueroa from the New Ideas party had proposed the c...
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Judge extends migrant status protections for 60,000 people from Central America and Nepal
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge in California extended on Thursday temporary protected status for 60,000 people from Central America and Asia, including people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem determined that conditions in their home country no longer warranted protection...
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Florida carries out record 9th execution of 2025 on man convicted of killing his wife and 2 children
STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A man convicted of the 1994 machete killings of his wife and their two children was put to death Thursday, becoming the ninth person executed in Florida this year and setting a state record for a single-year total since the Supreme Court restored the death penalty decades ago. Edward Zakrzewski was ...
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