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Fires at Kamloops recycling plant prompt reminder about proper battery disposal
KAMLOOPS - Three fires at a local recycling plant have city officials reminding Kamloops residents of items they should and should not throw into their recycling bins. The fires have ignited over the ...
James Peters Mar 12, 2025 Emterra Environmental (Image Credit: CFJC Today / File Photo)

Carney to be sworn in as Canada's 24th prime minister Friday
OTTAWA - Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada's 24th prime minister at a ceremony at Rideau Hall Friday after the formal resignation of Justin Trudeau. A senior Liberal source says a new cabinet wil...
James Peters Mar 12, 2025

B.C.'s New Democrat government and Greens finalize confidence agreement
VICTORIA - British Columbia's NDP government and the provincial Green Party caucus have signed an agreement that consolidates the New Democrats' hold on the provincial legislature where they have a on...
James Peters Mar 12, 2025

Justice reserves decision on conflict of interest petition against Kamloops councillor
KAMLOOPS - A B.C. Supreme Court justice has reserved his decision after hearing two days of arguments - first from a group of 10 petitioners and then from Kamloops councillor Mike O'Reilly's lawyer. T...
James Peters Mar 12, 2025

Police identify victim of 2022 homicide in Lytton as 27-year-old woman from Williams Lake
LYTTON, B.C. - Police are identifying the victim of a homicide in Lytton three years after her death. In an update Wednesday (March 12), the RCMP Southeast District Major Crime Unit (SED MCU) says the...
James Peters Mar 12, 2025

Red Bridge debris cleaned up; province says planning process for long-term solution to begin shortly
KAMLOOPS - Debris from the former Red Bridge has been completely removed from the South Thompson River. In a news release issued Wednesday (March 12) morning, B.C.'s Ministry of Transportation and Tra...
James Peters Mar 12, 2025

B.C. takes advantage of U.S. 'chaos,' trade war to attract more doctors and nurses
British Columbia's health minister says "now is the time" for American doctors and nurses to move to the province as it fast tracks recognition of their credentials during an escalating trade war betw...
James Peters Mar 11, 2025

TRU approves 10-year plan to improve on including global perspectives in campus life, education and research
KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is planning to expand global perspectives on its Kamloops and Williams Lake campuses. TRU's Senate and Board of Governors approved the university's 10-year ...
James Peters Mar 11, 2025

Kamloops building sector seeing greater permit value, fewer housing units to start 2025
KAMLOOPS - Commercial and residential construction carried their fair share for Kamloops' building sector in February 2025. New numbers released by the City of Kamloops Building Inspection Division sh...
James Peters Mar 11, 2025

Are you more likely to support the federal Liberals under Mark Carney than under Justin Trudeau?
James Peters Mar 10, 2025 Image Credit: The Canadian Press

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