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B.C. Finance Minister Carole James has Parkinson's disease
VICTORIA - B.C. Finance Minister Carole James says she has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and will not seek re-election next year.James says she plans to remain in her posts as finance minist...
Mar 05, 2020 Image Credit: Global News
Environment Canada says it was an average winter — and it's over
KAMLOOPS - After an average winter, spring is here.That's the word from Environment Canada's Doug Lundquist, who insists winter runs from December through February, and March 1 marks the real start of...
Mar 02, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Two people arrested after head-on crash with semi-truck near Chase
CHASE, B.C. - A man and a woman were arrested near Chase this weekend after allegedly crashing into a semi-truck head-on.RCMP Staff Sgt. Janelle Shoihet says in a news release that the crash came afte...
Mar 02, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Wet'suwet'en chiefs, ministers reach proposed agreement in pipeline dispute
SMITHERS, B.C. - A Wet'suwet'en hereditary chief and senior government ministers say they have reached a proposed arrangement in a pipeline dispute that has prompted solidarity protests across Canada ...
Mar 01, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
Pipeline talks with hereditary chiefs resume for second day in northern B.C.
SMITHERS, B.C. - The hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en are meeting for a second day with senior federal and provincial ministers as they try to break an impasse in a pipeline dispute that's sparke...
Feb 28, 2020
IIO investigating after suspect is bitten by police dog near Clinton
CLINTON, B.C. - The province's police watchdog is investigating after a suspect was injured during an arrest near Clinton on Sunday.In a news release, RCMP say it has notified the Independent Investig...
Feb 27, 2020 Image Credit: Canadian Press
Supporters rally around Alberta family devastated by Kamloops-area crash
OKOTOKS, AB. - UPDATE: RCMP have confirmed Quinn Cochlin has died. EARLIER: A fundraiser has been launched to help support a family from Okotoks, Alta., that lost a father and a child in a highway cra...
Feb 26, 2020 Mike and Erin Cochlin with sons Liam and Quinn (Image Credit: GoFundMe)
City settles on 2.97% tax increase as RCMP requests dominate supplemental budget list
KAMLOOPS - The RCMP are getting some reinforcements, not in the form of additional officers but two positions that will help the force focus more on protecting the community. One is a police accounts ...
Feb 25, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Three people arrested from Neskonlith blockade
NESKONLITH, B.C. - RCMP have arrested three people who were part of a blockade on railroad tracks on Neskonlith land east of Kamloops.In a news release, RCMP say officers were called in yesterday to a...
Feb 25, 2020 Image Credit: Facebook / Anushka Azadi
Teck Resources shares down after company pulls Frontier oilsands project
VANCOUVER - Shares in Teck Resources Ltd. are trading down four per cent after the company said it had withdrawn its application for a massive oilsands mining project citing uncertainty over clim...
Feb 23, 2020
