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AI and Robotics at TRU: Institutional Augmentation - Part 1
KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University associate professor Geoff Fink is the institution's resident robot whisperer, using his education and research to help machines understand the world around them. ...
Apr 17, 2026 One of TRU's robot dogs. (Image Credit: CFJC Today/Curtis Goodrum)
Vancouver Canucks fire general manager Patrik Allvin after last-place finish
VANCOUVER - Jim Rutherford admits he has to shoulder some of the blame for how the Vancouver Canucks tumbled to the bottom of the NHL standings this season. The club's president of hockey operations i...
Apr 17, 2026
Stankoven talks series versus Senators, Hurricanes ruling the east, surpassing individual goals, NCAA vs. WHL
KAMLOOPS - Carolina Hurricanes' forward Logan Stankoven is quite possibly playing his best hockey of the season, riding an eight-game point streak into the playoffs. The Hurricanes will play host to t...
Apr 16, 2026 LOGAN STANKOVEN. (Image Credit: Carolina Hurricanes/Facebook)
Thickened tailings spill reported at New Afton mine west of Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The parent company of the New Afton mine just west of Kamloops is informing the public about an inadvertent tailings release at the mine.In a news release issued Thursday (April 16), Coeur ...
Apr 16, 2026 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Lytton was razed by fire. Some fear financial ruin is next for the tiny B.C. village
Ross and Judith Urquhart have called Lytton, B.C., home for half a century, leaving only for as long it took to rebuild after a raging wildfire forced them to flee in 2021. "All the homes around us we...
Apr 16, 2026
Mining industry champions First Nations partnerships, new technology at annual Kamloops conference
KAMLOOPS - Some 500 delegates packed the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre this week for the 39th annual Kamloops Exploration Group (KEG) Conference. Billed as the second-largest mining and e...
Apr 15, 2026 Delegates at the 2026 Kamloops Exploration Group (KEG) conference. (Image Credit: Anthony Corea/CFJC Today)
Kamloops mayor's latest code of conduct breach costs taxpayers $52k; total tab nears $500k
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson has been found to have again breached council's code of conduct. "The Investigator found that Mayor Hamer-Jackson breached the Code of Conduct by sending a...
Apr 15, 2026 Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson, File photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
AAPs on borrowing for McMaster purchase, Tranquille Phase 3 to begin April 20
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops residents will have a 38-day window to register their opposition to long-term borrowing for a pair of big ticket projects already underway.At Tuesday's (April 14) regular meeting, ...
Apr 14, 2026 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Build Kamloops committee to consider phased approach to Dufferin multiplex
KAMLOOPS - As estimates for the planned arena multiplex in Dufferin have climbed, the City of Kamloops says it's also possible that the facility won't be fully completed when it opens in a few years' ...
Apr 14, 2026 The proposed floor plan of the Dufferin arena multiplex (Image Credit: Kent Simmonds/CFJC Today)
Large Kamloops RCMP presence blocks off section of 13th Street
UPDATE (8:15 a.m.): Kamloops RCMP say they responded to a report of a man with a gun who may be suffering from a mental health crisis. Police Dog Services, the Southeast District Emergency Response Te...
Apr 14, 2026 (Image Credit: Michael Reeve/CFJC Today)
