Tank Hill Closure
Brief closure coming to Highway 1 at Tank Hill early Tuesday morning
LYTTON - A heads up to drivers on the Trans-Canada Highway in the Fraser Canyon as there will be an overnight closure in the Lytton-area next week as crews continue to work on repairs following the atmospheric river from Nov. 2021The Ministry of Transportation and Transit says the highway will be closed at Tank Hill fr...
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Coach Of The Month
John Antulov named League1 BC coach of the month; three players also earn honours
KAMLOOPS - John Antulov has been named the League1 BC coach of the month for April.Antulov has led Kamloops United (formerly Rivers FC) to their best start this this League1 BC season. Kamloops United (KUFC) finished with two wins and a draw in April, and they've added two wins from two games so far this month.With fou...
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Kamloops and Area
Highway Safety
BC Highway Patrol warning of 'very visible' police presence this May long weekend
KAMLOOPS - The BC Highway Patrol says it will have a very visible presence on provincial highways this Victoria Day long weekend.In a news release Friday (May 16), it said there will be highly-visible police patrols in the Kamloops area, as well as in places like Barriere, Sicamous, Chase, Nelson, Cranbrook, Golden, an...
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ER Closure
Lillooet ER to be closed for 25 hours going into May long weekend
LILLOOET - The emergency room at the Lillooet Hospital and Health Centre will be closed for 25 hours heading into the May long weekend. Interior Health says the facility will be unavailable between 7:00 a.m. Friday (May 16) and 8:00 a.m. Saturday (May 17). People are being told to make the two hours drive to Royal Inla...
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ROLLING SENIORS TOUR
Hot rods evoke memories on tour of seniors' homes in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Residents clapped and cheered as Pine Grove Seniors Community staff kept them warm in blankets as the rain held off just long enough for the clear passage of sentimentality. "It evokes all kinds of emotion for them to see all these old cars," Pine Grove staff member Paula Popadynetz said. "Emo...
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Clarke Is Back!
Scott Clark to stay on as TRU women's basketball coach; Kamloopsian Joe Davis named new associate head coach
KAMLOOPS - Scott Clark will continue on as head coach of the Thompson Rivers University (TRU) WolfPack women's basketball team for the 2025-26 Canada West season. Clark took over from Todd Warnick in December after the latter went on a personal leave. Prior to that, Clark had been head coach of the TRU men's basketball...
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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
B.C. man gets hunting ban, $13,000 penalty after illegally killing bighorn ram
NORTH VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man has been banned from hunting sheep in the province for three years after he illegally killed a bighorn ram and lied to authorities about where the hunt took place. B.C.'s Conservation Officer Service says in a statement posted to Facebook that Heith Proulx of Kelowna killed the ...
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Overnight Surrey house fire spreads to neighbouring homes, police investigating cause
SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating an early morning house fire in the city's Bridgeview neighbourhood. They say officers responded to a report of a structure fire around 1:35 a.m. in the area of 127 Street and 113A Avenue. Police say firefighters extinguished the blaze, but remained on scene around 8:15...
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Inquest rules B.C. student's overdose death accidental, recommends naloxone training
BURNABY - A coroner's jury in British Columbia has recommended high schools provide resuscitation training and demonstrations of how to use naloxone after ruling that the overdose death of a University of Victoria student last year was accidental. The inquest found 18-year-old Sidney McIntyre-Starko died of brain injur...
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Local Sports
Coach Of The Month
John Antulov named League1 BC coach of the month; three players also earn honours
KAMLOOPS - John Antulov has been named the League1 BC coach of the month for April.Antulov has led Kamloops United (formerly Rivers FC) to their best start this this League1 BC season. Kamloops United (KUFC) finished with two wins and a draw in April, and they've added two wins from two games so far this month.With fou...
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Clarke Is Back!
Scott Clark to stay on as TRU women's basketball coach; Kamloopsian Joe Davis named new associate head coach
KAMLOOPS - Scott Clark will continue on as head coach of the Thompson Rivers University (TRU) WolfPack women's basketball team for the 2025-26 Canada West season. Clark took over from Todd Warnick in December after the latter went on a personal leave. Prior to that, Clark had been head coach of the TRU men's basketball...
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CFL TRAINING CAMP
New voices directing B.C. Lions' offensive line: 'We're going to be an aggressive run team'
KAMLOOPS - Hope springs anew for the B.C. Lions' offensive line, which allowed the most sacks in the Canadian Football League in 2024. Paul Charbonneau has taken over as offensive line coach and he is taking directives from first-year head coach Buck Pierce. The club made significant additions during the off-season, ad...
May 15, 2025
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Canada
Amazon, worker union before Quebec labour tribunal over warehouse closures
MONTREAL - A Quebec labour tribunal has begun hearing a case against Amazon over the e-commerce giant's closure in January of seven warehouses in the province. Some 1,700 employees lost their jobs following Amazon's sudden termination of its Quebec warehouse operations months after workers at a Montreal-area facility u...
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Stockwell Day supports Alberta vote on separation, warns it's dangerous for Tories
OTTAWA - Former Conservative member of Parliament Stockwell Day says Alberta separatism poses a threat to the federal Conservative party - which risks seeing a return to the kind of vote-splitting that was common before the party united in 2003. Day, who was part of Stephen Harper's cabinet from 2006 to 2011, says he's...
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Hockey Canada interviews among evidence excluded from ex-junior players' jury trial
Three of the five hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room in 2018 spoke about the events of that night with an investigator hired by Hockey Canada, but those statements are not part of their criminal trial. Prosecutors wanted to use the interviews to cross-examine Michael McL...
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World
Authorities say 11 inmates escaped from a New Orleans jail; 10 still missing after one recaptured
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Authorities in Louisiana say they are in pursuit of 10 inmates - at least one of whom is convicted of murder - who escaped from a New Orleans jail. Another inmate was captured Friday after a brief foot chase through the French Quarter, the Louisiana State Police said in a post on the social media pla...
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Jury convicts ex-Tennessee House speaker and his aide in legislative mail scheme
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Tennessee House speaker and his onetime chief of staff in a scheme to win taxpayer-funded mail business from state lawmakers even after scandals drove the two out of political power. Former Republican Rep. Glen Casada was found guilty of all 19 charges...
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ICC prosecutor Karim Khan steps aside pending outcome of sexual misconduct investigation
BRUSSELS (AP) - The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will temporarily step down pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, the court announced Friday. Karim Khan has categorically denied accusations that he tried for more than a year to coerce a female aide into a...
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