Author Archives: Dave Barry

KAMLOOPS --- Last week Zane Franklin signed with the Allen Americans in the ECHL. Franklin will see a familiar face when he arrives to play with the Texas based team. His former Kamloops Blazers teamm...

ARE CITY EMPLOYEES and City council worth their paycheques? That's a subjective question if there ever was one but first you have to know how much they're getting paid. The numbers are available - at ...

KAMLOOPS - The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about some new challenges in the planning process for the city's 2021 budget. On Tuesday (Aug. 25), City of Kamloops staff will be asking council whether t...

OTTAWA - On Sunday, the federal Conservative party will elect a new leader. There are four candidates vying to lead the party, which currently holds 121 seats in the House of Commons and serves as the...

KAMLOOPS - UPDATE: RCMP now say this individual is no longer considered missing.

KAMLOOPS - A pickup truck went up in flames along the Trans-Canada highway west of Kamloops Monday evening. The driver of the pickup was travelling east when he described smelling an electrical fire. ...

OTTAWA - Hackers used more than 9,000 stolen usernames and passwords to apply for government services, and also targeted about 5,500 Canada Revenue Agency accounts, the federal government said in an a...

KAMLOOPS - A cyclist has been sent to hospital after being struck by a pickup truck along Summit Drive at the Monmouth Drive intersection. The crash occurred Saturday near 8:45 a.m. A witness said a w...

OTTAWA - Less than two per cent of the 40,000 new ventilators Canada ordered for hospitals last spring have already been delivered. Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says Canada is better pr...

VICTORIA - There are 53 new positive cases of COVID-19 in B.C. today (Aug. 8). A release put out by the Ministry of Health and the office of the Provincial Health Officer states there are now 386 acti...