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Kamloops approved for grant funding for community cleanup and outreach; Portland Loo funding rejected
Kamloops has been denied grant funding of $1 million to build new public washrooms. Through grant funding available from the Union of BC Municipalities, the city had applied in April for $2.5 million,...
Sep 23, 2021
White Rock Lake fire causes an estimated $77 million in insured losses
The White Rock Lake fire is estimated to have caused $77 million in insured damage, according to initial estimates from the Insurance Bureau of Canada. In announcing that figure, it says it is expecti...
Sep 23, 2021 A burnt-out vehicle in front of a home that has been reduced to ashes on Paxton Valley Road, about 1 km east of Monte Lake and Highway 97. (Photo by Scottie Duncan)
Suspected fentanyl dealers arrested at Pineview gas station
Kamloops Mounties intercepted a large amount of drugs, including fentanyl, while arresting two people at a gas station early Wednesday morning. The RCMP Targeted Enforcement Unit were called to a gas ...
Sep 23, 2021 Drugs and cash seized by RCMP after stopping alleged fentanyl dealers at a Kamloops gas station. (Photo: RCMP handout)
City denies TRU request for BC Building Code exemption in bid to build temporary student housing portables
The City of Kamloops has denied a request from Thompson Rivers University as it sought an exemption from the BC Building Code to build temporary student housing on campus. The university had asked for...
Sep 23, 2021 Campus Activity Centre at Thompson Rivers University/via TRU
If a positive COVID test kept you from voting, what can you do?
A pandemic election question: what can be done if you tested positive for COVID-19 after advanced voting closes but before general election day? Anyone who had that happen or was a close contact, woul...
Sep 22, 2021 Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Kamloops councillor concerned about potential impacts to certain park space in proposed bylaw change
The City of Kamloops is looking to reclassify what can be built in park space across the city. As part of a widespread zoning change, for zoning bylaw 55, a convention centre, civic centre or cultural...
Sep 22, 2021
Kamloops Chamber plans to discuss labour shortages, affordability, housing, social issues with new MP Caputo
The Executive Director of the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce says the ongoing labour shortage is the main issue she is hoping to see addressed now that the 2021 federal election is in the past. Acacia P...
Sep 22, 2021
Voters Society says controversial spending at TNRD under Gill started before 2015
The Kamloops Voters Society says it was caught off guard by a historical lack of keeping receipts at the Thompson-Nicola Regional District. The society received data from 2014 related to spending unde...
Sep 22, 2021
Finning Canada to build new multi-million-dollar facility on Tk'emlúps lands
A new 142,500 square foot Finning Canada facility will rise on Tk'emlps te Secwpemc lands. In a statement, the company says the multi-million dollar facility will be twice the size of its current Vall...
Sep 22, 2021 Rendering of the new Finning facility. (Photo via Finning Canada)
UPDATE: E-bike rider killed in hit-and-run on Highway 1 in Kamloops
UPDATE: 1:35 p.m. An E-bike rider was found dead along Highway 1 in Kamloops early Tuesday morning after a hit and run, Kamloops RCMP have confirmed. Police were called to the scene across the highway...
Sep 21, 2021
