

BC Lions Training Camp
BC Lions release 2025 training camp schedule
KAMLOOPS - The BC Lions have released a schedule for 2025 training camp, which will get underway at Hillside Stadium in Kamloops in exactly one month. The Leos will hold their first full practice at camp on Sunday, May 11. First-year players and all quarterbacks will report to Kamloops on May 7 for a three day mini-cam...
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WHL Drafts
Blazers set to pick 11th, 14th overall in 2025 WHL Prospects Draft
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers are scheduled to pick twice in the first round of the 2025 WHL Prospects Draft next month.Barring any trades, they will pick 11th and 14th overall in the 23 team draft. The Blazers acquired the 11th overall pick from the Vancouver Giants in the Connor Levis trade and the 14th overall pic...
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Kamloops and Area

KSO
Kamloops Symphony Orchestra music director to step down at the end of the season
KAMLOOPS - The music director and principal conductor at the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra (KSO) is stepping down after eight seasons at the helm. In a news release issued Friday (April 11) morning, the KSO announced Dina Gilbert will depart at the end of the 2024-25 season. She joined KSO in 2017. "This decision wa...
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SNOWPACK CONDITIONS
Below-normal snowpack totals slightly improve in April; drought hazards linger
VICTORIA - Snowpack conditions for this time of year in the Kamloops area have marginally improved, but they are still below normal. The latest Snow Survey and Water Supply Bulletin distributed by the BC River Forecast Centre (BCRFC) shows the province at 79 per cent of normal snowpack on April 1, up from 73 per cent t...
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Lillooet ER
Lillooet emergency department temporarily closed for 37 hours
LILLOOET, B.C. - Emergency services will be unavailable in Lillooet until the weekend. Interior Health says the emergency department at Lillooet Hospital temporarily closed at 7:00 p.m. Thursday (April 10) and is scheduled to reopen at 8:00 a.m. Saturday (April 12). A reason for the temporary closure was not provided i...
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ON THE PITCH
Kamloops United remains hopeful in BC Soccer Premier League application process
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops United Football Club general manager Lyle Dos Santos has been influential in restructuring the development pathway for soccer in the River City.Dos Santos said one of the most important components of that pathway is securing a franchise in the BC Soccer Premier League - the highest level available i...
19h ago
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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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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

B.C. Court of Appeal upholds murder conviction for Vancouver Island prison escapee
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of James Busch, who escaped from a Vancouver Island prison in 2019 with another inmate, then killed a man who lived near the institution. Busch and fellow inmate Zachary Armitage escaped from William Head Institution, a minim...
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Two B.C. police officers hurt in collision set off by robbery chase
SURREY - A series of events that started with a robbery in Surrey, B.C., ended with two officers being sent to hospital because of a crash. The Surrey Police Service says they were called Wednesday to a south Surrey business after a staff member confronted a man and woman who wheeled out a shopping cart full of tools w...
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Signs of drought in B.C.'s latest snow, water supply bulletin
British Columbia's overall snowpack increased slightly throughout March, but the average is still sitting at just 79 per cent of what's considered normal and the province is sounding the alarm about the potential for drought. The latest provincial snow survey and water supply bulletin says the snowpack is higher than A...
2h ago
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BC Lions Training Camp
BC Lions release 2025 training camp schedule
KAMLOOPS - The BC Lions have released a schedule for 2025 training camp, which will get underway at Hillside Stadium in Kamloops in exactly one month. The Leos will hold their first full practice at camp on Sunday, May 11. First-year players and all quarterbacks will report to Kamloops on May 7 for a three day mini-cam...
2h ago
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WHL Drafts
Blazers set to pick 11th, 14th overall in 2025 WHL Prospects Draft
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers are scheduled to pick twice in the first round of the 2025 WHL Prospects Draft next month.Barring any trades, they will pick 11th and 14th overall in the 23 team draft. The Blazers acquired the 11th overall pick from the Vancouver Giants in the Connor Levis trade and the 14th overall pic...
3h ago
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ON THE PITCH
Kamloops United remains hopeful in BC Soccer Premier League application process
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops United Football Club general manager Lyle Dos Santos has been influential in restructuring the development pathway for soccer in the River City.Dos Santos said one of the most important components of that pathway is securing a franchise in the BC Soccer Premier League - the highest level available i...
19h ago
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Canada

B.C. Court of Appeal upholds murder conviction for Vancouver Island prison escapee
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of James Busch, who escaped from a Vancouver Island prison in 2019 with another inmate, then killed a man who lived near the institution. Busch and fellow inmate Zachary Armitage escaped from William Head Institution, a minim...
1h ago
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Sex assault civil trial of Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon to resume next week
MONTREAL - The sexual assault civil trial of Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon will resume next week after the Court of Appeal rejected his appeal of the scope of questions his lawyers could ask in his defence. In a brief hearing today, the province's highest court dismissed Rozon's appeal filed in the midst of his...
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Carney warns of signs that global economies are slowing amid Trump's tariffs
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said there are signs the global and Canadian economies are slowing as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war escalated again Friday, with China announcing it will push up retaliatory tariffs to 125 per cent. "In the last week there have been a lot of developments in terms of U....
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World

Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported
JENA, La. (AP) - Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be deported as a national security risk, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled Friday during a hearing over the legality of kicking the activist who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations out of the U.S. Immigration Judge Jamee E. Comans...
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A convicted killer who was mistakenly released from jail is caught 2 weeks later
ATLANTA (AP) - The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday that a convicted killer who was mistakenly released from a Georgia jail has been caught two weeks later in Florida - ending days of anxiety for the victim's family outside Orlando who feared he might harm them over their role in the trial. Kathan Guzman, 22, was supp...
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Suspected bomb strikes near offices of Greek railway company in Athens
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A suspected bomb exploded Friday outside the Athens offices of Hellenic Train, Greece's main railway company. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Police cordoned off the area, along a major avenue in the Greek capital, where residents said a loud explosion had occurred Friday night. Local...
2h ago
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