KAMLOOPS - Cason Scott of the Westsyde Whundas is one of the best basketball players in the country in his age group. There were at least 15 post-secondary institutions interested in acquiring his services, including each of the Canada West universities in B.C. The Grade 12 student had a tough decision to make about hi...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue (KFR) responded to a mobile home blaze at 1755 Ord Rd. at about 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday (April 1). Once on scene, crews entered the building and knocked down the fire. KFR investigators later determined a kitchen fire had spread into the attic of the mobile home. Two people were taken to ho...

KAMLOOPS - A fundraising campaign to help protect a large parcel of grasslands near Juniper Ridge has reached its goal.Launched in February by the BC Parks Foundation, the effort aimed to save 517 acres of private property within City of Kamloops limits from being sold for more than $5 million.The organization raised a...

KAMLOOPS - At a Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday afternoon (April 1), Kamloops council voted to defer parts of the municipal budget until 2026. The proposed tax increase will be lower for than previously thought this year. The debt servicing for the building of a new RCMP detachment will also be deferred until 20...

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!

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.

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.

British Columbia Premier David Eby says a youth in government care "shouldn't have died" earlier this year and that her death represents a "failure." The province's Opposition Conservative Party used much of its time during Wednesday's question period to grill the government on its treatment of chil...

VICTORIA - Credit rating agency S&P has downgraded British Columbia's rating for the fourth time in four years, citing record capital spending and a "fiscal mismatch" in its operations. S&P Global Ratings cut the province's long-term issuer credit rating to A+ from AA-. More coming. The Canadian Press

Alyssa Gehman vividly recalls seeing starfish for the first time while on a kayaking trip in British Columbia's Desolation Sound in Grade 8. "I just remembered (seeing) a lot of the colours and the excitement of the colours in the water," said Gehman, who is now a scientist with the Hakai Institute, a group t...

KAMLOOPS - Cason Scott of the Westsyde Whundas is one of the best basketball players in the country in his age group. There were at least 15 post-secondary institutions interested in acquiring his services, including each of the Canada West universities in B.C. The Grade 12 student had a tough decision to make about hi...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Blazers legend Greg Hawgood will take his place in the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame this weekend, with the induction ceremony scheduled for Saturday (April 5) at Colombo Lodge.Hawgood, a defenceman, racked up 473 points in 310 WHL games and is the second-leading scorer in Blazers' history.He played ...

KAMLOOPS - It was a down season for the Kamloops Blazers, but the team's captain has garnered a prestigious individual award.The Western Hockey League announced Tuesday (April 1) that Emmitt Finnie has made the league's year-end Second All-Star Team in the Western Conference.Finnie drove the Blazers' offence in 2024-25...

Automaker Stellantis is temporarily pausing production at its assembly plant in Windsor, Ont., for two weeks as it assesses the effects of the recently announced U.S. tariffs on imported vehicles. The company says work at the Ontario plant will pause for the weeks of April 7 and April 14. Operations will resume the wee...

Wet and stormy weather is hitting southern Ontario early today, with Environment Canada posting several warnings and special weather statements. Around the Greater Toronto Area, the weather agency has issued a rainfall warning, with thunderstorms expected to dump as much as 75 millimetres of rain in some areas, but say...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Carney back on the campaign trail today Liberal Leader Mark Carney is back on the road today after making a detour to Ottawa for meetings about U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariffs. Carney is expected to be in Montreal tod...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department quietly decided in the final weeks of the Biden administration not to prosecute Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, effectively ending the corruption investigation that cast a long shadow over the political career of a close ally of President Donald Trump, The Associated Press ha...

Violent storms cut through a wide swath of the South and Midwest, spawning tornadoes and killing at least one person, knocking down power lines and trees and ripping roofs off homes. Dozens of tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings were issued Wednesday in parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Mississipp...

Tornadoes and violent storms struck parts of the South and Midwest on Wednesday, killing at least one person, knocking down power lines and trees, ripping roofs off homes and shooting debris thousands of feet into the air. A tornado emergency was briefly issued in northeast Arkansas, with the National Weather Service t...