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Kamloops Fire Rescue responds to North Shore landscape fire
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue crews are on scene at a landscape fire Tuesday afternoon.The fire was reported along Courtenay Crescent, behind Christ Community Church, at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.Ther...
James Peters Oct 01, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Adam Donnelly

National Communist Party leader visits Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - On Saturday, Communist Party of Canada Leader Liz Rowley was in Kamloops to support local candidate Peter Kerek's campaign, as well as speak with party supporters.Rowley joined the Communis...
James Peters Sep 30, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today

Candidate profile: Communist Party candidate Peter Kerek
KAMLOOPS - In just over three weeks, Canadians will go to the polls to elect our next government. Here in Kamloops, our slate of candidates includes several running for smaller parties who may not hav...
James Peters Sep 30, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today

Orange Shirt Day — An inside look at Kamloops's former residential school
KAMLOOPS - Since 2013, Orange Shirt Day has served as a reminder of the horrific treatment of Indigenous children forced to leave their family and enroll in residential schools.These schools stripped ...
James Peters Sep 30, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today

Do you use winter tires or M+S tires for winter driving?
James Peters Sep 30, 2019

GINTA: We can save ourselves from being buried in our own waste
IT'S AN UNFORTUNATE HUMAN-SPECIFIC ATTRIBUTE that many of us do not adopt change unless some catastrophic events ensue. It is good times we are living in, defined by abundance and shall we say, excess...
James Peters Sep 30, 2019

Jessie Simpson meets his hip hop idol
KAMLOOPS - Jessie Simpson had been looking forward to meeting his idol, rapper Snak The Ripper, for weeks. He was invited to be backstage at his concert in Kamloops on Friday night. However, Simpson w...
James Peters Sep 30, 2019

Man charged in Kamloops cold case makes court appearance
KAMLOOPS - A man accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend nearly 20 years ago made an appearance in the Kamloops Law Courts today. Trent Larsen appeared by video, while his lawyer Tony Lagemaat ap...
James Peters Sep 30, 2019

Kamloops local government watchdog group to restart, refocus next month
KAMLOOPS - A local government watchdog group says it is reawakening after a period of rest. Spokesman Randy Sunderman says the Kamloops Voters Society (KVS) has formed an interim board of directors, a...
James Peters Sep 30, 2019

RCMP ID remains found in Wells Grey Park as 1987 crash victims
CLEARWATER, B.C. - RCMP and the B.C. Coroners Service have confirmed the identities of the human remains found at a historical plane crash site in Wells Gray Park last fall.According to a news release...
James Peters Sep 30, 2019 Ernie Whitehead (l), Len Dykhuizen (Image Credit: RCMP Handout)

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