Housing Options
Council says 'no' to new shelters, transitional housing on Kamloops riverfront
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops council is adding a restriction to where future shelters or transitional housing can be built within city limits. At its regular meeting Tuesday (April 8), council voted 6-3 to not allow new proposals to build these forms of housing on riverfront property. The move comes after council was caught off...
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Election 2025
Federal all-candidates forum to be streamed April 22
KAMLOOPS - All the candidates running for election in the two Kamloops-area ridings have been invited to participate in a streaming forum later this month.The online-only all-candidates forum will be held on Tuesday, April 22, presented by CFJC, Castanet Kamloops, the Kamloops and District Chamber of Commerce, the Kaml...
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Kamloops and Area
The Tattle of Hastings
THE TATTLE OF HASTINGS: Pendrel reflects after Hall of Fame nod
KAMLOOPS - Catharine Pendrel's mountain biking career began to flourish after she moved to Kamloops in 2006.She won medals at every major event her sport has to offer and took her place in the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame last weekend.Pendrel looks back on her competitive career in this week's edition of The Tattle of ...
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ELECTION 2025
Robertson all in for Liberals in Kamloops-Shuswap-Central Rockies
KAMLOOPS - Ken Robertson is the Liberal Party's choice to run in the Kamloops-Shuswap Central Rockies riding. Robertson is a Secwépemc man raised on the Neskonlith First Nation west of Chase."The threat down south, first of all, from the U.S. and Donald Trump and tariffs (is why I ran). This is where we hav...
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Highway 1
Washout impacts traffic on Highway 1 east of Chase
UPDATE (11:00 a.m.): The washout is cleared.UPDATE (8:20 a.m.): Traffic is flowing again through a stretch of the Trans Canada Highway east of the Village of Chase.DriveBC says a reduced speed limit is now in effect and drivers are asked to proceed with caution.Another update is due at 11:00 a.m.EARLIER: CHASE, B.C. - ...
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Next-Generation 911
Kamloops poised to apply for more grant funding to aid implementation of next-generation 911
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops is hoping to get another $2.1 million in grant funding to support its transition to the next-generation (NG) 911 system. At Tuesday's (April 8) meeting, City Councillors will be asked to green light an application to the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM), which has approximately $25-mill...
Apr 08, 2025
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Featured Content
Art of Gardening
Art of Gardening - Things You Need To Get Done In Spring
Spring has sprung and the grass is rising - and Maury from Art Knapp Garden Centre and Florist in Kamloops has a whole list of things you need to get going on to get your yards and gardens ready for the growing season!
Apr 02, 2025
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CFJC TV Special
Art of Christmas 2024 with Art Knapp Kamloops
Maury and Ivy Hik from Art Knapp Garden Centre and Florist in Kamloops take a look back at the best holiday features from years past. Presented by CFJC TV and First Choice Hair.
Dec 25, 2024
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Art of Christmas
Art of Christmas - Flowering Seasonal Plants
There are many ways to bring warmth and colour to your home during the holiday season! Maury Hik from Art Knapp Garden Centre and Florist in Kamloops has a few ways for you to do that with seasonal flowering plants.
Nov 28, 2024
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British Columbia
Owner of three shopping malls in B.C. says she wants to buy Hudson's Bay
A Chinese billionaire in British Columbia has taken to social media to announce her plans to buy dozens of Hudson's Bay locations after she saw "Canadians feeling sad" over the collapse of the retail giant. Entrepreneur Weihong Liu is the board chairwoman of Central Walk, a retail investment company that owns...
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B.C. Human Rights Commissioner says guardianship law 'opaque,' lacks oversight
British Columbia's human rights commissioner says the province is the only place that she's aware of in Canada that allows people to be detained by the state without explicit legal authority, timelines or oversight. Kasari Govender says B.C.'s approach to holding people under the Adult Guardianship Act is discriminator...
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Vancouver's health authority says cases of mpox virus on the rise
VANCOUVER - Vancouver Coastal Health says there's been a recent spike in mpox, the viral infection also known as monkeypox. A statement from the health authority says the increase is cases is predominantly among gay and bisexual men who haven't had two doses of the vaccine that prevents the infection. It says the disea...
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Local Sports
The Tattle of Hastings
THE TATTLE OF HASTINGS: Pendrel reflects after Hall of Fame nod
KAMLOOPS - Catharine Pendrel's mountain biking career began to flourish after she moved to Kamloops in 2006.She won medals at every major event her sport has to offer and took her place in the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame last weekend.Pendrel looks back on her competitive career in this week's edition of The Tattle of ...
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Gm of the Year
Centennials' Brad Anstey named KIJHL's first general manager of the year
MERRITT, B.C. - The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL) Brad Anstey of the Merritt Centennials is the league's first ever GM of the Year. In a news release issued Tuesday (April 8) morning, the KIJHL says the Centennial's majority owner, president and general manager received the inaugural Wayne March G...
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AT THE BANQUET
Memorable moments for Kamloops Sports Council awards winners, Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame inductees
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame welcomed new members and the Kamloops Sports Council announced its 35th annual athletic award winners on Saturday (April 5) at Colombo Lodge. Among the Hall of Fame inductees are Greg Hawgood, who has the second-most points in Kamloops Blazers' history, Olympic bronze medalli...
Apr 08, 2025
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Canada
B.C. Human Rights Commissioner says guardianship law 'opaque,' lacks oversight
British Columbia's human rights commissioner says the province is the only place that she's aware of in Canada that allows people to be detained by the state without explicit legal authority, timelines or oversight. Kasari Govender says B.C.'s approach to holding people under the Adult Guardianship Act is discriminator...
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'Sign of hope' for endangered killer whales as centre confirms newborn calf
The Centre for Whale Research says one of its field biologists has spotted a new calf in a pod of endangered killer whales off British Columbia's southern coast. The Washington-based centre says in a Facebook post that biologist Mark Malleson encountered J-pod, part of the larger population of southern resident killer ...
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Rise in asylum seekers to Canada as migrants' protected status set to expire in U.S.
MONTREAL - Canadian border officials say there has been a steady rise in the number of people seeking asylum at a border crossing south of Montreal. The rise in would-be refugees at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle crossing comes as the temporary status of hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States is set to expir...
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World
Texas AG Ken Paxton launches Senate primary challenge against Republican Sen. John Cornyn
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is running for the U.S. Senate in a primary challenge against Republican Sen. John Cornyn, setting up what is likely to become one of the GOP's most contentious and expensive contests of 2026. Paxton, a close ally of President Donald Trump, announced his decision T...
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Judge rejects new trials for 2 convicted of human smuggling in death of family of 4 from India
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday rejected requests for new trials for two men convicted on human smuggling charges in the deaths of four members of a family from India who froze to death while trying to cross the Canadian border into Minnesota during a blizzard in 2022. U.S. District Judge John Tunheim dec...
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A Florida man is executed for killing a Miami Herald employee who was abducted on a lunch break
STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man convicted of killing a Miami Herald employee who was abducted on her lunch break was executed Tuesday evening. Michael Tanzi received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. at Florida State Prison for the April 2000 strangling of Janet Acosta, authorities said. In a fi...
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