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Victoria Street West project set to move to second phase
KAMLOOPS - The city's biggest road and infrastructure project is moving into its next phase. Milling will begin for Stage Two of the Victoria Street West Improvements Project on Sunday (May 12). That ...
May 09, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Orchestra finds child who charmed crowd with 'wow!'
BOSTON - A performing arts group has found the child who was literally wowed by a recent classical music concert. The Handel & Haydn Society finished a rendition of Mozart's "Masonic Funeral" at B...
May 09, 2019
Wildfire Service boot camp proves valuable for new recruits
MERRITT, B.C. - Every spring, the Provincial Wildfire Training Centre in Merritt hosts the newest B.C Wildfire Service recruits for a round of physically and mentally demanding boot camp training sess...
May 09, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Dylana Milobar
Still most visited place, Orlando had 75 million visitors
ORLANDO, Fla. - Orlando had 75 million visitors last year as the theme park mecca continued to be the most visited destination in the United States, tourism officials said Thursday. Orlando in 2018 ha...
May 09, 2019
Amazon's Bezos says he'll send a spaceship to the moon
WASHINGTON - Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos said Thursday he's going to send a spaceship to the moon, joining a resurgence of lunar interest half a century after people first set foot there. Bezos said his ...
May 09, 2019
Trump backs Fla. plan to import lower-cost meds from abroad
WASHINGTON - In a move sure to get attention in a 2020 battleground state, President Donald Trump indicated Thursday that his administration may approve a Florida plan to import lower-cost prescriptio...
May 09, 2019
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes: Time to break up company
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says it's time to break up the social media behemoth. In a New York Times opinion piece published Thursday, Hughes said CEO Mark Zuckerberg has turned Facebook into an...
May 09, 2019
Mounties recover stolen property in Brocklehurst
KAMLOOPS - RCMP in Kamloops have recovered a large amount of stolen property.Investigators searched a home in the 2000-block of Parkcrest Avenue this morning. Builders tools, survey equipment and stol...
May 09, 2019 Image Credit: Kamloops RCMP
Tree replanting receives big boost in the Cariboo
WILLIAMS LAKE - Over the next two months about 22 million trees will be planted in the area scorched by wildfire in the Cariboo region.Reforestation efforts will be concentrated to the areas where the...
May 09, 2019 Image Credit: Dreamstime / Pakorn Kumruen
Death at post-prom party raises concerns about civic responsibility: observers
The death of a teenager at a post-prom party held at an Airbnb rental property north of Toronto should be raising questions around safety and civic responsibility in an evolving industry, lawyers and ...
May 09, 2019
