KAMLOOPS - With the latest tie-breaker result in the 2026 municipal election, Clearwater can officially be called 'Sim City'.Mayor-elect Shelley Sim will continue to represent the North Thompson Valley on the Kamloops-Thompson School District (SD73) board, after she was declared the winner Wednesday (Oct. 28) afternoon...

KAMLOOPS - Ten days after voting day, Lytton finally knows who its new mayor will be - and it's Jennifer Thoss. The village took an unorthodox path to choosing its new mayor. Voting in the October 17 municipal election resulted in a tie - 45 votes each for incumbent Denise O'Connor and challenger Thoss. The matter went...

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 - 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 - 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...

KAMLOOPS - While there are 14 people celebrating election wins in Kamloops, there are 37 other candidates looking back on what might have been, as their bids for public office was unsuccessful. It was all smiles from Nelly Dever after she placed second in the mayoral race with 6,969 votes, or roughly 23.25 per cent. De...

CACHE CREEK, B.C. - It came down to a single miscounted vote to decide who was in second place in the race for a seat in Cache Creek's council chambers.Kelly Debert and David Dubois were initially tied with 298 votes each, while the gap between Carmen Ranta (179 votes) in fourth and Karla Hein (175 votes) in fifth plac...

KAMLOOPS - A stronger turnout than four years ago helped usher in a semblance of change to the Kamloops council chambers, with a new mayor taking over the gavel and five new councillors joining the horseshoe. Mayor-elect Mike O'Reilly will be tasked with steering council from the mayor's office, while incumbents Katie...

LYTTON, B.C. - Officials say an electoral deadlock for mayor of the Village of Lytton could come down to a drawing of lots.After Saturday's (Oct. 17) vote, incumbent mayor Denise O'Connor and challenger Jennifer Thoss were exactly tied with 45 votes each.The village says Chief Election Officer Shannon Story has declare...

MERRITT - The next meeting of the Nicola-Similkameen School District (SD58) will have some new faces at the board table following Saturday's (Oct. 17) municipal election.After the ballots were counted, incumbents Justin Jepsen and Gordon Swan were returned to the SD58 board where they will be joined by newcomer Stu Jac...

CLINTON, B.C. - There was no election in the Village of Clinton Saturday (Oct. 17) night, as the mayor and all four councillors were acclaimed to office.Roland Stanke will return for his fifth term as mayor of Clinton. A long-time resident of the village, Stanke was mayor for three terms between 2002 and 2011 and was t...

LOGAN LAKE, B.C. - The longtime mayor of Logan Lake now knows who will fill out the rest of the district's council following Saturday's (Oct. 17) municipal election. Robin Smith first became the mayor of Logan Lake after she was acclaimed in 2014, after serving two terms as a councillor from 2008 to 2014. Smith was acc...

SALMON ARM, B.C. - The Columbia-Shuswap Regional District's (CSRD) next board of directors will include a mix of new and returning faces. Shawn Smith beat four other challengers in Electoral Area F (North Shuswap-Seymour Arm). He finished with 470 votes, and was ahead of former 100 Mile House mayor Mitch Campsall (384 ...

100 MILE HOUSE, B.C. - A political newcomer has been elected as the mayor of 100 Mile House.David Jurek, a real estate agent who has lived in 100 Mile House for the past 10 years, received 408 votes. He finished ahead of incumbent mayor Maureen Pinkney, who finished with 228 votes.Pinkney was acclaimed as mayor of 100 ...

CLEARWATER, B.C. - A tight race in the District of Clearwater has ended with a new mayor in the North Thompson community. Shelley Sim, who has served on the district's council since 2011, defeated incumbent mayor Merlin Blackwell by 18 votes. Results from the municipal election Saturday (Oct. 17) show Sim garnered 510 ...

ASHCROFT, B.C. - The incumbent mayor of Ashcroft will serve a third term. Barbara Roden held off the challenge from Eric Poole during Saturday's (Oct. 17) municipal election. She finished with 458 votes to Poole's 178. Roden served one term on Ashcroft council prior to being elected as mayor in 2018. She faced no chall...

LILLOOET, B.C. - Lillooet residents elected the remainder of their district council during Saturday's (Oct. 17) municipal election.The district's three incumbent councillors were successful in their re-election bids. Kevin Aitken, Patti Flann and Randy McNary will join incumbent mayor Laurie Hopfl for the next term.Hop...

CACHE CREEK, B.C. - Former Cache Creek councillor Wendy Coomber has been elected as mayor, making her the first female mayor since the village was incorporated in 1967.Coomber, who served on Cache Creek council between 2016 and 2022, finished with 219 votes on Saturday (Oct. 17). A former journalist, Coomber finished t...

KAMLOOPS - Seven incumbent trustees will return to the Kamloops-Thompson School District (SD73) board, including four of five who represented the City of Kamloops.Cole Hickson was the top voter getter Saturday (Oct. 17) as he was elected to his second term as trustee with 11,937 votes (39.4 per cent). Both Heather Gri...

LYTTON, B.C. - Residents in the Village of Lytton were split when deciding who should be the mayor. Preliminary results from Saturday's (Oct. 17) municipal election show incumbent mayor Denise O'Connor and challenger Jennifer Thoss tied with 45 votes apiece. O'Connor was first elected as mayor of Lytton in 2022, the s...

CHASE, B.C. - Tristan Cavers has been elected as the new mayor of Chase.Cavers, who was the Green Party's candidate in Kamloops-North Thompson in the 2024 provincial election, finished the mayoral race with 556 voters. He was well ahead of incumbent mayor David Lepsoe, who was second with 174 voters.Carson Trowsse (16...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The rubber match between Williams Lake Mayor Surinderpal Rathor and former mayor Walt Cobb went to the incumbent.Rathor won re-election Saturday (Oct. 17) with nearly 67 per cent of the vote. The former longtime city councillor dethroned Cobb for the mayor's seat in Williams Lake in the 2022 munic...

SUN PEAKS, B.C. - The Mountain Resort Municipality of Sun Peaks has the remainder of its council rounded out. Incumbent Sun Peaks mayor Rob O'Toole was successful is his bid to return as a councillor. He'll be joined by incumbent councillor Brian Gillespie and newcomers David Burnham and Elizabeth Wilkinson. Incumbent ...

BARRIERE, B.C. - Barriere Mayor Rob Kerslake now knows who will join him on district council following Saturday's (Oct. 17) municipal election.All five incumbent Barriere councillors were successful in their re-election bids. Joining Kerslake will be Judy Armstrong, Donna Kibble, Louise Lodge, Colin McInnis, Brody Mosd...

SALMON ARM, B.C. - A longtime municipal politician in Salmon Arm earned a third term as the city's mayor. Incumbent Mayor Alan Harrison was successful in his re-election bid during Saturday's (Oct. 17) municipal election, holding off the challenge from Daniel Brady. Harrison finished with around 78 per cent of the vote...

KAMLOOPS - Most of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District's electoral area directors were set prior to Saturday's (Oct. 17) municipal election. However, there were two races to decide in Electoral Areas "E" (Bonaparte Plateau) and "I" (Blue Sky Country).Jim Smith won re-election to his second term in...

MERRITT, B.C. - The City of Merritt is running it back with its incumbent council.Mayor Mike Goetz won his re-election bid during Saturday's (Oct. 17) municipal election, holding off the challenge from Gordon Keyser. Goetz was first elected as mayor of Merritt in 2022 after serving 10 years as a city councillor from 20...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops voters opted not to wipe the slate clean with the incumbent council. Incumbent councillors Kelly Hall, Margot Middleton and Katie Neustaeter have been re-elected to serve second terms. Incumbents Dale Bass, Nancy Bepple, Stephen Karpuk and Bill Sarai are out. Bass and Sarai served two terms on Kamlo...