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Full-time Dallas fire hall, new city security model highlight 2025 City of Kamloops supplemental budget requests
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has released its list of supplemental budget items, which, if approved, could raise the provisional 7.49 per cent tax increase further.There are 10 items on this year's...
Feb 07, 2025
Canada added 76,000 jobs in January as unemployment rate fell to 6.6%
OTTAWA - Canada's labour market added another 76,000 jobs in January, beating economist expectations.Statistics Canada's labour force survey on Friday also said the unemployment rate ticked down again...
Feb 07, 2025
Attorney General Sharma opens new Indigenous Justice Centre in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops is among several communities that are now home to an Indigenous Justice Centre (IJC). "We are opening six new Indigenous Justice Centres and fulfilling our commitment to establish ...
Feb 06, 2025
Build Kamloops Committee mulls proposed seating capacity for arena multiplex
KAMLOOPS - The amount of seats surrounding four sheets of ice at a future arena multi-plex in Dufferin was a highlight of discussions at Thursday's (Feb. 6) City of Kamloops Build Kamloops Select Comm...
Feb 06, 2025
Trump lampooned in Jax and Jillian comic book, a love letter to Canada from Kamloops creators amid tariff threats
KAMLOOPS -- Sherrie Cannell and her son, Tyler Storla, first published Jax and Jillian The Peril From America in 2019, the comic book featuring its protagonist vloggers and a devious villain, the Lyin...
Feb 05, 2025
Man arrested after Kamloops family fends off early morning home invader
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops man was arrested after a family awoke to an intruder in their home earlier this week. Kamloops RCMP say they were called to the 1200-block of Kimberly Crescent on the North Shore...
Feb 05, 2025
Council cautiously moves Fortune Drive BC Housing rezone ahead, though questions remain
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops city council spent an hour on Tuesday (Feb. 4) afternoon discussing a rezoning for three properties along Fortune Drive. "If it's just simply denied, there are all sorts of differe...
Feb 04, 2025
CRD calls for quick new deal to keep Williams Lake Power Plant open beyond 2025
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The Cariboo Regional District (CRD) is calling for the B.C. government and BC Hydro to speed up a new deal with Atlantic Power to keep jobs at a power plant in Williams Lake. Whi...
Feb 04, 2025
Kamloops stores talk potential impact of U.S. tariffs
KAMLOOPS -- Nutters Everyday Naturals Kamloops franchise owner Sarah Sims was happy to show off the Made in Canada signs taped to shelves on Monday (Feb. 3) in the downtown store. "The uncertainty for...
Feb 03, 2025
Trudeau says U.S. tariffs on Canada will be paused for 30 days
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the U.S. has agreed to pause tariffs on Canada for at least 30 days after he spoke with President Donald Trump this afternoon.Trudeau says in a social media...
Feb 03, 2025
