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NEW WESTMINSTER - Court documents in the case of a violent B.C. human sex trafficker say police found graphic videos of beatings and sexual assaults on her phone. Jennifer Stephens pleaded guilty in January 2025 to 17 charges including assault causing bodily harm, unlawful confinement, sexual assault with a weapon and ...
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B.C. researchers confirm footprints of three-toed dinosaur with club-like tail
Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were still in their infancy. The study published this month in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology analyzed f...
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Our Community
Two and Out
PETERS: The mayor of Kamloops does not need a gold chain
5h ago

Art of Gardening
Art of Gardening - One Potato, Two Potato!
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SOUND OFF: Kamloops isn't asking to be treated differently on cancer care. We're asking to be treated the same
Apr 17, 2025
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LOOPED IN WITH NIKKI OMEN: April 17, 2025
Apr 17, 2025

Kamloops and Area

CANADA VOTES 2025
Kamloops Greens' hoping to ensure environmental concerns are not lost this election
KAMLOOPS - It wasn't the best week to be in the Green Party camp, as the co-leaders were last minute exclusions from the federal leaders debates with the commission stating they have failed to meet two of the three needed criteria thresholds to participate. The Greens have historically done their best work on Vancouver...
Apr 17, 2025
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CANADA VOTES 2025
NDP looking to continue strong Kamloops performances, force minority win
KAMLOOPS - Historically, the NDP have fared quite well in the Kamloops riding, finishing second in six of the last eight federal elections. However, with federal polling numbers slipping for the New Democrats, the door has potentially been opened for the Liberals to gain ground across the Interior of British Columbia. ...
Apr 17, 2025
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AT HILLSIDE STADIUM
Kamloops Track and Field Club touts increasing membership as outdoor season gets underway
KAMLOOPS - Jack Maryniuk and Alivia English bolted through fresh air on Wednesday (April 16) at Hillside Stadium - the Kamloops and Track and Field Club runners and hurdlers relishing the start of outdoor season. "Just the atmosphere, the people," said English, a Grade 9 student at South Kamloops Secondary. &...
Apr 17, 2025
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MERRITT SCHOOL BUDGET
School closures not off the table for SD58 amid budget pressures
MERRITT, B.C. - School District 58 (Nicola-Similkameen) held a public budget meeting on Wednesday (April 16) night to discuss budgetary pressure affecting the district and the district's plan for the school year ahead. Much like other districts across British Columbia - including Kamloops where 76.5 FTE positions are o...
Apr 17, 2025
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Featured Content

Art of Gardening
Art of Gardening - One Potato, Two Potato!
Springtime means buds, but it also means spuds! Yes it's a great time to plant potatoes and Maury Hik from Art Knapp Garden Centre and Florist in Kamloops has a number of great suggestions for you to try out this season.
Apr 15, 2025
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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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Apr 17, 2025
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British Columbia

Court document sheds light on B.C. human trafficker's violent encounters with victims
NEW WESTMINSTER - Court documents in the case of a violent B.C. human sex trafficker say police found graphic videos of beatings and sexual assaults on her phone. Jennifer Stephens pleaded guilty in January 2025 to 17 charges including assault causing bodily harm, unlawful confinement, sexual assault with a weapon and ...
4h ago
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Swimmer at Vancouver's Wreck Beach presumed drowned after search unsuccessful
VANCOUVER - Police say a man is missing after swimming at Vancouver's Wreck Beach and is presumed drowned after an extensive search was called off due to darkness. Mounties say the detachment that serves the area around the University of British Columbia got a call about a distressed swimmer at the popular clothing-opt...
6h ago
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B.C. researchers confirm footprints of three-toed dinosaur with club-like tail
Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were still in their infancy. The study published this month in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology analyzed f...
19h ago
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Local Sports

AT HILLSIDE STADIUM
Kamloops Track and Field Club touts increasing membership as outdoor season gets underway
KAMLOOPS - Jack Maryniuk and Alivia English bolted through fresh air on Wednesday (April 16) at Hillside Stadium - the Kamloops and Track and Field Club runners and hurdlers relishing the start of outdoor season. "Just the atmosphere, the people," said English, a Grade 9 student at South Kamloops Secondary. &...
Apr 17, 2025
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IN THE SNAKE PIT
Kamloops Venom face hurdles on quest for fourth straight league title
KAMLOOPS - Significant roster turnover and improved competition are among hurdles that stand between the Kamloops Venom and a fourth consecutive Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League title. "We're young, but we're still ready to bring it to the rest of the league," Venom captain Ryan Watson said. "We'...
Apr 16, 2025
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POUNDING PAVEMENT
Kamloops 'running besties' helped push each other to Boston Marathon
KAMLOOPS - Alexa McMillan and Jillian Neufeld first bonded during the 2023 Boogie The Bridge half-marathon, a happenstance pairing that stuck together for about 15 kilometres and embraced at the finish line. They have since coined themselves "running besties" and have pushed each other to the Boston Marathon,...
Apr 15, 2025
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Canada

Poilievre promises to end ban on single-use plastic straws, other items
MONTREAL - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to end the federal single-use plastic ban on items like straws and grocery bags if his party is elected. Poilievre campaigned in Montreal this morning, as he and other federal leaders returned to the campaign trail following the two national leaders' debates ...
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B.C. researchers confirm footprints of three-toed dinosaur with club-like tail
Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were still in their infancy. The study published this month in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology analyzed f...
19h ago
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'Freedom Convoy' organizer asks for stay of proceedings after guilty verdict
OTTAWA - "Freedom Convoy" organizer Chris Barber has asked for a stay of proceedings, two weeks after an Ontario judge found him and Tamara Lich guilty of mischief for their roles in the 2022 mass protest in Ottawa. According to a news release from the non-profit helping his defence, Barber is arguing the pro...
Apr 17, 2025
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World

Judge blocks Trump administration's from passport changes affecting transgender Americans
BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of "X" marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers. In an executive order signed in January, the president used a narrow definition of the sexes ins...
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Judge says detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont
A federal judge on Friday ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration authorities in Louisiana to be brought to Vermont by May 1 for a hearing over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper. U.S. District Judge William Sessions sai...
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Abrego Garcia told visiting senator he was no longer being held at notorious Salvadoran prison
WASHINGTON (AP) - Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is recounting the chronology of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's travel to El Salvador, saying he told him he was initially taken to Baltimore, then Texas, then put on a plane with "no idea where he was going." Upon arriving, Abrego Garcia said he was "traumatized&q...
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