New Catchment Areas
SD73 board approves South Kamloops catchment changes ahead of new Sníne Elementary School's opening
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops-Thompson Board of Education approved new catchment areas Monday (May 12) to go along with the addition of Sníne Elementary School in Pineview Valley. As of Sept. 1, 2026, elementary-aged students in the Pineview and Lower Aberdeen neighbourhoods in Kamloops, along with the communities of ...
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Key portfolios for business community to watch as Carney's cabinet sworn in
Canada's business community will be monitoring files across various portfolios after Tuesday's swearing-in of Prime Minister Mark Carney's new cabinet. Corporate leaders and business associations say their priorities include holding Carney accountable when it comes to his promise of launching nation-building projects, ...
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Question of the Week
Do you support redesigning the Kamloops cancer centre to accommodate a PET-CT scanner if it delays completing the project?
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Art of Gardening
Art of Gardening - One Potato, Two Potato!
1000 Ways to Heal
1000 Ways to Heal: Moose Hide Campaign
May 12, 2025
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Kamloops and Area
Bridge Blockade
Bridge over Sicamous Narrows blockaded as First Nation calls for involvement in project
SICAMOUS, B.C. - The R.W. Bruhn Bridge in Sicamous is closed due to a peaceful protest blocking the road. Splatsin and Splatsin Development Corporation (SDC) implemented a peaceful blockage of the bridge by parking dump trucks at either end of the Sicamous Narrows crossing around 10:00 a.m. Monday (May 12). The blockad...
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Ashcroft Fire
Ashcroft Fire Rescue credits good Samaritans for putting out grass fire along Highway 1
ASHCROFT, B.C. - Firefighters in Ashcroft are crediting a group of good Samaritans for putting out a grass fire that crossed the Trans Canada Highway. In a social media post Monday (May 12), Ashcroft Fire Rescue says the fire nearly one kilometre north of the Ashcroft Travel Centre was being extinguished by a man with ...
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Fire Ban
Category 3 fire ban coming to Kamloops Fire Centre this Friday
KAMLOOPS - The BC Wildfire Service will be implementing a fire ban across the Kamloops Fire Centre just in time for the May long weekend, even as much of the fire activity remains in the northeastern corner of the province.The ban on all Category 3 open fires will come into effect at 12:00 p.m. this Friday (May 16) &qu...
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Transit Fares
Kamloops council to review potential increases to transit fares
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops councillors are being asked for their input - and to make a decision - as city staff conduct a transit fare review process for the first time in six years. At Tuesday's (May 13) Committee of the Whole meeting, councillors will be asked to pick one of four options that staff say were developed with a...
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Featured Content
Art of Gardening
Art of Gardening - Unique Specimen Trees
Looking for that special something to make your yard stand out in the neighbourhood? Shawn Ulmer from Art Knapp Garden Centre and Florist in Kamloops has a number of unique and attractive trees of the weeping variety to provide that very element!
Apr 30, 2025
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Art of Gardening
Art of Gardening - New Tropicals
They come in to the store every spring and this year is no exception! Ivy Hik from Art Knapp's in Kamloops takes time to showcase some of the new tropicals that are now in stock for you to check out!
Apr 23, 2025
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Art of Gardening
Art of Gardening - Magnolias in Kamloops
Magnolias are only meant to be grown in the lower mainland...right? Wrong says Maury HIk from Art Knapp's in Kamloops! There are lots of locations in town you can find success with this fantastic flowering tree!
Apr 23, 2025
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British Columbia
Minister says she rejected daycare at B.C. legislature because area is well served
VICTORIA - Plans by the British Columbia legislative assembly to open a childcare facility remain up in the air after the provincial government rejected a funding request. The legislature had applied for the funding in February 2024, but B.C.'s Ministry of Education and Child Care informed the legislature in March that...
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CP NewsAlert: Court dismisses application to stop B.C. ostrich cull over avian flu
VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge has tossed out a challenge that would have stopped the killing of about 400 ostriches on a British Columbia farm that suffered an outbreak of avian flu. More coming. The Canadian Press
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Second dead grey whale washes ashore in B.C. in less than a week
A second dead grey whale has washed ashore in British Columbia in less than a week. Fisheries and Oceans Canada has confirmed that the latest dead whale was reported on May 11 in Haida Gwaii near the community of Skidegate, and a marine mammal response team is working with local First Nations to co-ordinate a necropsy....
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Local Sports
CFL TRAINING CAMP
Irish kickers, former Gaelic footballers chasing jobs at Lions' camp; South African rugby union convert eyes starting punting gig
KAMLOOPS - The stable of kickers at BC Lions training camp this year is stocked with international boots, with the exception being starting placekicker Sean Whyte of White Rock. Carl Meyer of South Africa is likely to be the CFL club's starting punter, while Irish imports Mark McNamee and Ross Bolger - both former Gael...
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NAHC 2025
Bottle, Team B.C. settle for silver at National Aboriginal Hockey Championships in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Jaylah Bottle and Team B.C. had to settle for a silver medal at the 2025 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships in Kamloops. This after B.C. was beaten 2-0 by Manitoba in Saturday's (May 10) gold medal game at Sandman Centre, though this is their best ever finish at this tournament. "I definitely thin...
May 11, 2025
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League1 BC
Kamloops United top Whitecaps in men's action; women remain winless
VANCOUVER - It's back-to-back-to-back clean sheets for the Kamloops United (KUFC) men's team in League1 BC action, as they beat the Vancouver Whitecaps Academy Team 1-0 Saturday (May 10) afternoon. Dylan Hooper scored the only goal of the game in the 21st minute for Kamloops, who are still unbeaten and remain on top of...
May 11, 2025
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Canada
Here are the newcomers, familiar faces in Prime Minister Mark Carney's inner circle
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced his new cabinet. Here is the list of all 28 Liberal cabinet members, as well as 10 secretaries of state. Returning members of cabinet: Anita Anand, minister of foreign affairs The MP for Oakville East in Ontario has been a mainstay of the Liberal cabinet, holding seven ...
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Erskine-Smith says he feels 'disrespected' after being dropped from cabinet
OTTAWA - Former housing minister Nate Erskine-Smith says it's "impossible not to feel disrespected" after being dropped from cabinet. In a series of social media posts Tuesday, the member of Parliament for Beaches-East York said he ran in the recent election for the opportunity to make "an even bigger di...
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Mark Carney's cabinet has taken shape. Here are some of the highlights
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled his 28-member cabinet and it's a mix of familiar and new faces from across Canada. Carney's cabinet is smaller than that of his predecessor - former prime minister Justin Trudeau's government had 35 ministers by the end - and adds 10 secretaries of state, who are essenti...
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World
MLB reinstates Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, making them Hall of Fame eligible
NEW YORK (AP) - Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson were reinstated by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday, making both eligible for the sport's Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by sports gambling scandals. Rose's permanent ban was lifted eight months after his death and came a day before the Cin...
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José Mujica, Uruguay's humble president who changed his country and charmed the world, dies at 89
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated people around the world, has died. He was 89. His death was announced by Uruguayan President Yamandú Ors...
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LA judge to decide whether the Menendez brothers should be freed
LOS ANGELES (AP) - After months of delays, a hearing started Tuesday to decide whether Erik and Lyle Menendez should get a chance at freedom after serving nearly 30 years in prison for the double murder of their parents. A Los Angeles judge is presiding over the resentencing hearing that is expected to last two days. I...
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