KAMLOOPS - This fall's flu season has arrived early, and health officials in British Columbia are urging people to roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated, as new data from Health Canada shows this province leading the way when it comes to flu activity. "The vaccine has been great," Missagh Manshadi, the own...

KAMLOOPS - Immediately after calling a snap election, NDP leader David Eby stepped out front of government house in Victoria, saying he needed a new mandate to deal with the ongoing U.S.-Canada trade war. Each party in Kamloops was asked: 'this election was called by David Eby under the pretense of the U.S.-Canada tra...

KAMLOOPS - The Cariboo-Chilcotin riding stretches from Williams Lake, 100 Mile House and Clinton all the way down to the west of Kamloops past Tobiano. It's considered a safe conservative riding and could be home to the premier if the Tories are successful on Saturday (Oct 24) night with incumbent and interim leader Lo...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Community Concert Band's (KCCB) next performance in November will be the last for its longtime music director and co-founder.The KCCB said the event, A Classic Concert, will carry mixed emotions as it will also serve as a farewell to Cliff Noakes, who has been with the band since its inception.&...

KAMLOOPS - Two-time Stanley Cup champion defenceman Oleg Tverdovsky was the second overall selection in the 1994 NHL Draft, picked by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. The family eventually settled in the Los Angeles area and that is where Oleg's son, Eli, reluctantly began his hockey journey. "He was crying," Ol...

KAMLOOPS - The BC SPCA has welcomed 46 more animals from a farm that could no longer care for them, with the Kamloops branch among those taking some of them in.SPCA officials said 22 cats and kittens, 16 Call ducks, six Muscovy ducks, one sheep and one goat have been transferred to several of their locations for furthe...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops-Thompson School District (SD73) board is keeping a close watch on this Saturday's (Oct. 24) provincial election, as it - like most British Columbians - waits to see who will form the next government. The newly elected, but largely unchanged, board is getting up to speed following last Saturday's...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops' two incumbent Conservative MLAs had been advocating to the province prior to the election call on two major pieces of capital. Current polls have the Tories switching to the government side of the legislature on Saturday (Oct. 24), which could allow projects like the Red Bridge replacement to be ...

KAMLOOPS - For the third time in nearly a month, Interior Health has issued a toxic drug alert for Kamloops. According to the health authority, a white tablet being sold as dilaudid/hydromorphone contains isotonitazene, an opioid considered up to 50 times stronger than fentanyl. Interior Health says those who consume t...

KAMLOOPS - Advance polling has closed ahead of the 2026 provincial election and tens of thousands of Kamloops-area voters have shown up to cast their ballots in the six-day early voting window. Elections BC released advance voting turnout totals Thursday (Oct. 22).In Kamloops Centre, 12,523 voters turned up at polling ...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Mining's role in supporting Cariboo jobs and businesses, and what it will take to sustain the industry, were the focus of a recent discussion in Williams Lake. A luncheon hosted by the Mining Association of B.C.(MABC) in partnership with the Williams Lake & District of Commerce as part of its...

KAMLOOPS - Goaltender Logan Edmonstone stopped all 22 shots he faced as the Kamloops Blazers shut out the Tri-City Americans 4-0 from Sandman Centre Wednesday (Oct. 21) night. Defenceman Isa Guram opened the scoring with a shot from atop the left circle in the back half of the first period. After the Americans receive...

KAMLOOPS - The first poppy was pinned on the deputy mayor of Kamloops Wednesday (Oct. 21) at the Battle Street Cenotaph, as the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 52 prepares for the start of this year's poppy campaign. "It is important to let people know that our [poppy] campaign is kicking off," Kamloops Legion p...

KAMLOOPS - It's another twist in the race for the school trustee seat in Area 2 (North Thompson) of the Kamloops-Thompson School District (SD73), as a recount held on Tuesday (Oct. 20) has led to a tie between the two candidates. Preliminary results released on Saturday (Oct. 17) showed incumbent Shelley Sim beat chall...

KAMLOOPS - The latest edition of Barb's Used Book and Music sale is underway, and it's back in the space it hopes to call home for the foreseeable future. The twice-annual sale has returned to St. Andrew's on the Square for the first time since the fire two years ago. A majority of the collection was destroyed in that ...

KAMLOOPS - Fraser-Nicola is a vast riding covering the communities of Merritt, Hope, Lillooet, Logan Lake, Lytton, Ashcroft and Cache Creek. Since the riding's inception in 2009, three parties have won the seat, starting with the NDP and Harry Lali, followed by the Liberals' Jackie Tegart and, most recently, the Conser...

KAMLOOPS - Rural emergency room closures have become all too common in recent years, with many folks being forced to travel multiple hours for critical care. A lack of primary-care physicians also impacts healthcare outcomes in our province. Each party was asked, "Emergency rooms throughout the Interior face regul...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Mayor-elect Mike O'Reilly won all 19 polling stations to take the mayoral vote handily on Saturday (Oct. 17).Detailed numbers published by City of Kamloops Chief Election Officer Alicia Beday show O'Reilly the top vote-getter and former councillor Nelly Dever the runner-up in each location.O'Reilly ...

KAMLOOPS - The outgoing mayor of Kamloops was being treated for a heart attack in the final week of the municipal election campaign.The confirmation is contained in a lengthy email thread that began last Thursday (Oct. 15) between Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson and October's deputy mayor, Councillor Stephen Karpuk.It origina...

KAMLOOPS - Exactly a month after it was announced, the City of Kamloops says conditions are now right for a prescribed burn in Peterson Creek Nature Park to go forward. The six-hectare burn will be ignited sometime between 12:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 22), according to notice distributed by the city Wednesda...

KAMLOOPS - Noel Poole is a Canada West rookie, but he walked toward the ball with the conviction of a fifth-year hitman and designated penalty taker on Saturday [Oct. 17] in Langley, with his TRU WolfPack playing the Trinity Western Spartans in a men's soccer match that had major playoff implications. The second-half ...

SICAMOUS, B.C. - Three people are dead following a two-vehicle collision east of Sicamous over the weekend. Sicamous RCMP say officers responded to the Trans-Canada Highway near Stadnicki Road at around 10:45 p.m. Saturday (Oct. 16) where a westbound Mercedes passenger van collided with a tow truck that was attempting ...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A prescribed burn project south of the City of Williams Lake could begin as early as next week. The BC Wildfire Service says its crews will be working with Williams Lake First Nation and the Cariboo Chilcotin Natural Resource District on carrying out a 10-hectare prescribed burn in the Esler Road ...

LOGAN LAKE, B.C. - Unionized workers at the Highland Valley Copper (HVC) mine near Logan Lake have issued 72-hour strike notice to Teck Resources, just days after they voted in favour of a strike, and they could walk off the job this Saturday (Oct. 24) morning. The United Steelworkers Local 7619 said the notice was iss...

KAMLOOPS - TRU WolfPack rookie Joss Olcen's first career U Sports goal was a beezer - and an important one. "It was honestly just a surreal moment, not the game I was expecting my first goal in," said Olcen, a forward who has played sparingly this season for the WolfPack women's soccer team. The UBC Thunderb...

KAMLOOPS - Seven of nine trustees on the Kamloops-Thompson School District (SD73) board will be returning to office after this past Saturday's (Oct. 17) municipal election, including four of five who represent the City of Kamloops. Cole Hickson's very visible campaign might have helped him top the polls with 11,937 vot...

VANCOUVER - New data from Health Canada show that flu season is arriving early in B.C., with the province leading the way.According to the department, more than five per cent of tests detected influenza in the week of Oct. 4.The most common detection was Influenza A(H1N1) at 98.4 per cent.The population most affected w...

VANCOUVER - Logan Stankoven said the Vancouver Canucks passing over him in the 2021 NHL Draft is old news. "It's just the way the draft went back in the day and I feel like that's five or six years down the road now in the past," said Stankoven, the 5-foot-8 forward from Kamloops. "I'm very happy with...