KAMLOOPS - Advance voting in the 2026 B.C. general election begins Friday (Oct. 16). Daily between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. from Friday to Wednesday (Oct. 21), residents in the Cariboo, Nicola, Shuswap and Thompson regions will be able to cast ballots in the ridings of Cariboo-Chilcotin, Fraser-Nicola, Kamloops Centre, ...

KAMLOOPS - Ahead of the provincial election on October 24, the cost of living and public safety are among the concerns B.C. Green Party candidate for Kamloops Centre Annelise Beach says she's hearing during the campaign. From the North Shore to downtown, Beach says she is trying to connect with Kamloops voters througho...

When interim B.C. Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson received a phone call from one of his daughters just two days after David Eby called a snap provincial election, he didn't have time for a conversation. In the whirlwind of activity he'd "kind of for...

Candidates running in this month's provincial election spent the start of the long weekend on the campaign trail. Here are some of the latest developments: NDP PROMISES FERRY SPOTS FOR LOCALS The NDP says it would launch a "locals-first" ferry reservat...

Cori Ramsay, a candidate for city council in Prince George, B.C., says a voter told her they can't wait to cast a ballot for her on Oct. 24. The voter would surely be disappointed, as Ramsay's election is a week earlier, on Oct. 17. As British Columbi...

KAMLOOPS - Elections BC has published a list of where people can vote in this month's provincial election, and people who have already made up their mind can cast their ballot prior to advance polls getting underway next week.Kamloops residents can vote at one of two district electoral offices in Kamloops - at the Kaml...

KAMLOOPS - Rocky McAfee will be carrying the OneBC flag in Kamloops Centre, as the party contests its first provincial election, a little over a year after it was founded. The long-time tattoo artist told CFJC Today he has long thought about seeking political office, adding the snap election call two years into the gov...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Centre riding will have five candidates on the ballot, including representation from the BC Green Party. Annelise Beach will be flying the Green banner in the October 24 election. Beach works in the social services field and believes she can affect change after working for 10 years in a system t...

The following people have filed nomination papers to run for local MLA seats. They are listed alphabetically by last name. (i) indicates incumbent MLA:--Kamloops CentreAnnelise Beach - BC GreensRocky McAfee - OneBCPeter Milobar (i) - BC ConservativesThaelo Proctor - IndependentMike Wisla - BC NDPKamloops-North Thompson...

KAMLOOPS - Thaelo Proctor is the first independent to run in one of the two Kamloops ridings since 2020, when Brandon Russell received less than one per cent of the vote in Kamloops-North-Thompson. Proctor is looking to defy the odds on October 24, running unaffiliated in Kamloops Centre, in what will be a five-way rac...

KAMLOOPS - The nomination period for candidates in the 2026 B.C. provincials election closed at 1:00 p.m. Saturday (Oct. 1), and people are now getting an idea of who will be on the ballot in three week's time.Elections BC notes it is reviewing all nominations received to ensure they meet the requirements set out in th...

KAMLOOPS - The BC New Democrats have named two rookie politicians as candidates as they look to unseat a pair of BC Conservative incumbents in Kamloops Centre and Kamloops-North Thompson. While some polls have the NDP forming government on October 24, the two Kamloops ridings are thought to be safe for the Tories, with...

KAMLOOPS - There will be two elections in Kamloops just one week apart from each other next month after voters go to choose their municipal and provincial representatives. Kamloops is no stranger to young people choosing to live, work and study in the Tournament Capital, but do they feel heard and represented by the pe...

KAMLOOPS - Priorities and major campaign planks will undoubtedly change over the course of the next 30 days ahead of provincial election day in British Columbia. Early on, though, there is a clear separation between the governing NDP and opposition parties, with David Eby focusing in on the United States and impacts fr...

MERRITT, B.C. - Amid frequent emergency department closures, Merritt mayor Mike Goetz says the BC NDP's promise to triple U.S. healthcare worker recruitment will need to benefit Interior Health communities more than the previous campaign did. Party leader David Eby lauded the success of past efforts to recruit more tha...

KAMLOOPS - As British Columbians prepare for an early provincial election next month, the Business Improvement Areas of BC (BIABC) organization wants the campaign to include a serious discussion about the challenges facing small businesses, employees and commercial districts across the province. BIABC wants to see prac...

Parties are drawing up their candidate lists ahead of British Columbia's snap election on Oct. 24. Here's a look at some of the latest developments. WHO'S IN Four NDP cabinet members - Mike Farnworth, Adrian Dix, Bowinn Ma and Josie Osborne - said Wedn...

KAMLOOPS - The BC Conservatives will be represented by a host of familiar faces around the Kamloops-Thompson region. In Fraser-Nicola, Tony Luck has indicated he will seek re-election, while Lorne Doerkson - as interim Tory leader - is running in Cariboo-Chilcotin. Meanwhile in Kamloops, it will be the two incumbents a...

VANCOUVER - Both sides of British Columbia politics are racing to redefine the B.C. Conservatives as the province goes to the polls on Oct. 24 in the wake of Kerry-Lynne Findlay's divisive leadership of the Opposition party. NDP Leader David Eby says t...

Here's a look back at the week that reshaped the political landscape of British Columbia, leading up to Tuesday's election call by NDP Leader David Eby. Wednesday Sept. 16: Eby addresses early election speculation, saying he told his party's legislato...

The British Columbia Conservatives moved Wednesday to head off suggestions that interim leader Lorne Doerkson would not remain premier if he wins the Oct. 24 election, as it announced former leader John Rustad would not be among its candidates. A state...

KAMLOOPS - Reaction is pouring in as British Columbians prepare to head to the polls in the Oct. 24 snap provincial election, and there was a lot of shock and a little bit of disgust in downtown Kamloops on Tuesday (Sept. 24) afternoon. "I just found out about the second election from you guys," one person to...

KAMLOOPS - British Columbians will be headed to the polls twice this fall, as Premier David Eby has called a snap election, just two years into his majority government mandate. Eby is hoping to capitalize on a weak opposition that has been more focused on fighting each other than his NDP government in recent months, cu...

KAMLOOPS - On the same day Premier David Eby called a snap election in British Columbia, Kamloops Centre MLA Peter Milobar has returned to the BC Conservatives. Milobar resigned from the BC Conservative caucus on August 14, citing a loss of confidence in the leadership of Kerry-Lynne Findlay, saying their values do not...

British Columbians are going to the polls about two years ahead of schedule, after NDP Leader David Eby called an early election to be held on Oct. 24. Here's a look at the party leaders in a political landscape that is very different from the one that...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's political scene is undergoing breakneck restructuring ahead of an Oct. 24 snap election that NDP Leader David Eby called on Tuesday, framing it as necessary to respond to the threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump and...

VICTORIA - British Columbians will be going to the polls twice in October. B.C. Premier David Eby, who will be campaigning for re-election as NDP leader, announced on Tuesday afternoon that he is calling a snap election.This means election day will be held on Saturday, Oct. 24, one week after the municipal election on ...

VICTORIA - B.C. Premier David Eby says he will deliver an address later today amid expectations of a snap election call. The premier has called reporters to Government House, where it's expected he'll ask Lt.-Gov. Wendy Cocchia to dissolve the legislat...