YKA to YEG Flight
WestJet to revive direct flights between Kamloops and Edmonton on July 6
KAMLOOPS - WestJet is adding a new direct flight between Kamloops and Edmonton, starting July 6.WestJet Encore will use its De Havilland Dash 8-400 (Q400) aircraft for the twice-weekly flights to Kamloops, as well as to Prince George (starting July 5), which are both set to operate throughout the peak summer travel sea...
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Environment Canada issues weather alerts for B.C. Interior highways
VANCOUVER - Environment Canada has issued special weather statements for three major highways in the British Columbia Interior. The weather agency says a Pacific front began approaching the southwestern Interior on Monday morning, bringing wet snow to highway summits. The special weather statement covers some portions ...
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Kamloops and Area
Summer Snow Storage
Sun Peaks Resort implements new summer snow storing initiative
SUN PEAKS, B.C. - Sun Peaks Resort says its the first in Canada to implement a new snow farming and storage system that will help it harvest and preserve snow through the spring, summer, and fall.The resort says it has begun using insulated mats made by Finnish company Snow Secure to "help ensure reliable early-se...
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Dangerous Dogs
TNRD expands dangerous dog bylaw to include all 10 electoral areas
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District's (TNRD) Dangerous Dog Control Bylaw is now in effect across all 10 electoral areas, thanks to the efforts of one local area director. Area "E" Director Jim Smith was behind the push to expand the bylaw, saying he had to act after a postal worker was attacked b...
May 18, 2025
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CCBC Championships
WolfPack settle for silver at 2025 Canadian College Baseball Conference championships
LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. - The Thompson Rivers University (TRU) WolfPack had to settle for a silver medal after they fell 10-9 to the Okanagan College Coyotes in Sunday's (May 18) Canadian College Baseball Conference (CCBC) championship game. Trailing by three runs going into the ninth inning, the WolfPack managed to load the...
May 18, 2025
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League1 BC
Kamloops United women record first win; men lose first game of League1 BC season
KAMLOOPS - There were several firsts for Kamloops United (KUFC) in League1 BC action Saturday (May 17) evening at McArthur Island as the two teams faced Burnaby as part of the Slurpee Cup weekend.The KUFC women scored two goals in the first 30 minutes and then held on for a 3-2 win to pick up their first points of the ...
May 18, 2025
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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
Environment Canada issues weather alerts for B.C. Interior highways
VANCOUVER - Environment Canada has issued special weather statements for three major highways in the British Columbia Interior. The weather agency says a Pacific front began approaching the southwestern Interior on Monday morning, bringing wet snow to highway summits. The special weather statement covers some portions ...
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Protesters opposed to agency-ordered cull at ostrich farm prepare for long-term stay
NAKUSP - Protesters who have been camping this weekend at a British Columbia ostrich farm that's been ordered to kill its entire flock because of bird flu say they're preparing to stay longer. Universal Ostrich Farm, in Edgewood, B.C., has been battling with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency over the cull of 399 bird...
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'Sullivan's Crossing' is a 'life-preserver in tumultuous times': Canadian showrunner
TORONTO - For Roma Roth, setting her show "Sullivan's Crossing" in Nova Scotia is a way to showcase more of Canada on the small screen. The London, Ont.-born executive producer and showrunner - who also works on the soapy Netflix series "Virgin River" shot in British Columbia - says it was time to i...
May 18, 2025
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Local Sports
CCBC Championships
WolfPack settle for silver at 2025 Canadian College Baseball Conference championships
LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. - The Thompson Rivers University (TRU) WolfPack had to settle for a silver medal after they fell 10-9 to the Okanagan College Coyotes in Sunday's (May 18) Canadian College Baseball Conference (CCBC) championship game. Trailing by three runs going into the ninth inning, the WolfPack managed to load the...
May 18, 2025
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League1 BC
Kamloops United women record first win; men lose first game of League1 BC season
KAMLOOPS - There were several firsts for Kamloops United (KUFC) in League1 BC action Saturday (May 17) evening at McArthur Island as the two teams faced Burnaby as part of the Slurpee Cup weekend.The KUFC women scored two goals in the first 30 minutes and then held on for a 3-2 win to pick up their first points of the ...
May 18, 2025
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WHL Champions
Kamloops native Mathew Ward wins WHL title with Medicine Hat Tigers
SPOKANE, WASH. - Mathew Ward is a Western Hockey League champion.The Kamloops native and his Medicine Hat Tigers beat the Spokane Chiefs 4-2 in a game 5 Friday (May 16) night to win the Ed Chynoweth Cup for the first time since 2007. Ward picked up the primary assist on Hunter St. Martin's WHL-winning goal in the third...
May 17, 2025
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Canada
Canada Post workers issue strike notice, poised to hit picket lines Friday
MONTREAL - Canada Post says it has received strike notices from the union representing some 55,000 postal workers, with operations poised to shut down by the end of the week. The Crown corporation says the union informed it that employees plan to hit the picket line starting Friday morning at midnight. A work stoppage ...
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CP NewsAlert: Canada, U.K and France sign joint statement condemning Israel's actions
OTTAWA - The leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom and France have signed a joint statement condemning the expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza, calling the level of human suffering "intolerable." More coming. The Canadian Press
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Logging, pruning and anxiety in Banff ahead of first summer since Jasper wildfire
BANFF - Looking out over a budding meadow with blackened tree stumps on the edge of Banff National Park, Cliff White points to a dark thicket of trees where the empty plot ends. "The next fire in here is going to be incredible," says the former Parks Canada fire management co-ordinator, standing in the expans...
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World
Judge bars Trump administration from shutting peace institute that sought to end violent conflicts
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with its dismantling of the U.S. Institute of Peace, an organization taken over in March by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell ruled that the think tank, which was create...
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Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protections from some Venezuelans; deportations could follow
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation. The court's order, with only one noted dissent, puts on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected...
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Trump call with Putin underway as he hopes for ceasefire progress in Russia-Ukraine war
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has grown "frustrated" with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the White House said Monday ahead of separate calls Trump is holding in hopes of making progress toward a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine. Trump expressed his hopes f...
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