KAMLOOPS - Whether you're a film aficionado, or a Kamloops history buff, the latest exhibition at the Kamloops Museum will likely catch your eye. Wide Angle is a collection of photos, stories, and equipment that tells the story of more than 100 years of movie making and enjoyment in the region. During preparations to c...

KAMLOOPS - With school out for the summer, parks and playgrounds around Kamloops are a popular destination for kids and families, and they're also a daily stop for the Bright Red Book Bus. This summer marks 11 years of the book bus, which offers free reading materials to kids around the city. The program is a joint col...

KAMLOOPS - There is still time to complete the Kamloops Food Policy Council's annual community survey as the deadline has been extended into next month.The roughly 15 minute long survey - which launched on June 12 - was set to wrap up on today (July 6), but it has been extended into a still to be determined date in Aug...

KAMLOOPS - The BC Interior Community Foundation (BCICF) will be operating a month-long Pop-Up Community Centre in downtown Kamloops this month.It will be located in the grand foyer of the TNRD Library Building at 465 Victoria Street, and will be open six days a week from July 2 to July 31.In a news release, the BCICF s...

KAMLOOPS - Canada Day festivities in Kamloops will feature events all day, including a flag parade to birthday wishes worldwide and the singing of O'Canada at the Riverside Park bandshell."Canada is such a welcoming, inclusive country. We are very diverse in our culture. Canada Day brings people from all cultures ...

KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops will once again begin staffing the Riverside Park beach area with lifeguards when the calendar flips to July, and they'll be there until mid-August. Micah Strecheniuk, the city's Aquatic Program Supervisor, says while people are free to make their own choices, that is the only designated...

KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops says while this year's Canada Day festivities will very likely feature fireworks at dusk, it wants that pyrotechnics display to be the only one that lights up the sky that evening. No consumer fireworks permits have been approved, and the City says the professionally run show on Canada D...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Food Bank is the recipient of the Excellence in Food Banking Award for a large food bank, which it won during the Food Banks Canada National Conference gala in Montreal last week.This biannual award is given out to a food bank that serves more than 1,500 clients per month. It is meant to celebra...

KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has released its schedule of events for this year's Canada Day festivities, and its expected to feature a fireworks display. After electing to move forward with a drone light show last year, City Councillors reversed course, and reverted back to the traditional fireworks display. Accordi...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops residents have a few days left to take in a new art show out of the old Courthouse building, featuring paintings of iconic downtown homes. 'A Neighbourhood Remembered' is an exhibition of the two-dozen portraits Debbie Lively was commissioned to paint of the houses that used to line the 400 and 500 ...

KAMLOOPS - Kusum first found it uncomfortable to sit in a circle and quietly listen to classmates speak, a common practise in Privileging Indigenous Oral Traditions and Storywork in International Indigenous Research, the Thompson Rivers University course taught by associate professor Mukwa Musayett (Shelly Johnson). A ...

KAMLOOPS - The Same Sky Art Collective, a non-profit art studio on the North Shore, has been building a community of talented local artists who are given an opportunity to display their art. Lana Fine is the studio's creative director and has been writing a thesis about the toxic drug crisis."Disrupting the notion...

KAMLOOPS - When Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) pops up on his call display, Ryan Firman's stomach churns. News can be grim and morbid. The opposite was true on May 29, when the 25-year-old Kamloopsian picked up the phone while at work to return a missed call from his kidney donor co-ordinator at VGH. "She says, ...

KAMLOOPS - Pride Week in Kamloops came to a close this weekend with the seventh annual parade lighting up the downtown. The parade took place on Victoria Street with motorized floats, sign holders and on-foot marchers taking to the street in support of the 2SLGBTQI+ community."I think having a pride parade is supe...

CLEARWATER, B.C. - The District of Clearwater is seeking feedback on plans to add a new a dog park and a new bike park with a dirt pump track at Weyerhaeuser Pioneer Park.It says the proposed amenities would be in addition to the existing playground and the Dragonfly water park, and that there is enough space to add bo...

KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) has launched a new Community Grant Writer pilot program, that will aim to support non-profit groups across its ten electoral areas seek out and apply for grant funding. Financial Supervisor Austin Potts the new pilot was launched following an increase in requests ...

KAMLOOPS - The founder of Cassie's Charity Drive has helped launch a new scholarship for students in the Kamloops-Thompson School District who want to give back to their community. The Cassie's Charity and Student Achievement Fund will aim to support students who want to help make a lasting difference, similar to how C...

KAMLOOPS - It's taken nearly eight years of work, but the Ronald McDonald Family Room is finally open at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops. The space is designed for families at the hospital to use for resting, breaks and meals, without having to leave the hospital campus and be far from their children. It features a l...

KAMLOOPS - General manager Alec Hubert and head pro Andrew Bentley of the Kamloops Golf and Country Club were flying around the course on Thursday (June 12) morning, winding through the willows while raising money for the fight against ALS. Representatives from 28 golf courses in B.C. are taking part in the PGA of BC G...

KAMLOOPS - A group of paramedics cycling through the Southern Interior heat will wrap up their four-day tour in Kamloops. For more than a decade, the Tour Paramedic Ride has held cycling rides across Canada in efforts to raise money to erect a national monument in Ottawa for paramedics who have died in the line of duty...

KAMLOOPS - The second annual Seniors Tin Cup Rally took place on Wednesday (June 11) on the 700-block of Fortune Drive. Seniors gathered to voice concerns over the rising cost of living and its relation to pensions, which they want to see increased. "Seniors' financial difficulties need to be heard," said Kat...

KAMLOOPS - It's PRIDE week in Kamloops and this year, the Kamloops PRIDE Society has organized plenty of ways for people to celebrate and show solidarity amongst the 2SLGBTQI+ community and allies. Kamloops PRIDE kicked off the week with an open house and youth carnival in Riverside Park Wednesday afternoon (June 11), ...

KAMLOOPS - As southern B.C. remains mired in a spell of above normal temperatures, the City of Kamloops and Interior Health are reminding people to be aware about the potential dangers of heat.While the elevated temperatures are not expected to cross into the threshold for a heat warning in Kamloops, the city has relea...

KAMLOOPS - With temperatures rising across the province, the BC SPCA is urging people to never leave their pets in hot vehicles, even if its just to run a quick errand."They can develop heatstroke quickly and it can take even, sometimes even only five minutes, depending on how hot it is and also depends on the pet...

KAMLOOPS - Eighty-one years ago today, Allied Forces conducted the largest amphibious attack in military history, simultaneously storming five beaches in Normandy, France. Canada was tasked with taking Juno Beach, widely thought of as the second hardest objective to take from German forces behind the United States on O...

KAMLOOPS - The Legion was given the freedom of the city in Kamloops back in 1986, this Friday (June 5) ahead of the BC/Yukon Legion Command Conference this weekend, the legion will exercise that freedom.The ceremony will begin at City Hall where the deputy mayor of Kamloops will read a proclamation, allowing the legion...

KAMLOOPS - The B.C. government says a number of initiatives in the Kamloops area will benefit from a provincial grant that is aimed at preventing crime, advancing healing and enhancing public safety.The B.C. Ministry of Public Safety said Thursday (June 5) it is providing $7.5-million in grants towards 166 community-le...

KAMLOOPS - A momentous Monday evening (June 2) for the Kamloops Heritage Railway Society (KHR) as the 2141 steam locomotive emerged from storage for the first time in nearly six years. KHR Leader of Railway Development Jordan Popadynetz said the milestone followed the successful completion of nondestructive testing (ND...