Jennifer Stahn

KAMLOOPS – The Commodore Grand Cafe and Lounge is one step closer to being allowed to host more customers after council unanimously agreed to put forward a notice of intent to consider a capacity change to the liquor licence. Owners Dino Bernardo and Chris Monteleone have been attempting to get a capacity increase for three...

KAMLOOPS - Councillors agreed to give themselves a $1,000 pay raise Tuesday afternoon after 90 minutes of discussions and votes on six separate motions to finally get any to pass. In May, council was split on the decision to get staff to prepare a report on salaries of councils for similar-sized cities across the province. Councillors...

KAMLOOPS - After two years of collecting comments from working groups, the community and First Nations groups KGHM Ajax has approval for the list of topics to be addressed in the environmental assessment application. The 200 page application information requirements document talks about what will be included in the assessment application, including the proposed project...

KAMLOOPS - The province will be taking to the skies to treat more than 23,000 ha of forest in the Kamloops region and another 29,000 ha in the Merritt and Lillooet areas for western spruce budworm. Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations will apply Foray 48B by helicopter to 17 sites near Barnes Lake, Robbins...

KAMLOOPS - As the lowest paid city in a survey of 13 similar sized communities Kamloops councillors would need a pay increase of more than 50 per cent in order to come in line with the average of the 13 cities. Kamloops councillors make $24,811 annually while the mayor earns $74,434. In addition councillors receive...

KAMLOOPS - The applications have come in, the interviews have been done and the city has made its recommendations. Now all that is needed is for RCMP to appoint a new superintendent to the Kamloops detachment and that could happen as early as next week. Mayor Peter Milobar says the city spent a day interviewing...

Both MLAs named ministers in new cabinet KAMLOOPS - The new B.C. cabinet was announced this afternoon and out of the 19 ministers appointed to the cabinet, many are new to their rolls, including Kamloops MLAs Terry Lake and Todd Stone, and in some cases the roll itself is new. Lake, formerly in charge of...

KAMLOOPS - The good news is there is a 90 per cent chance you will wait 22 weeks less for knee replacement surgery at Royal Inland Hospital today than 18 months ago. The bad news? That is still 16 weeks more than the federal benchmark target. Hospital administrator Marg Brown says while the latest statistics...

KAMLOOPS — Two simple white crosses with the names Chris Corrigan and Annie Shaw in black paint, distressed by years of snow, rain and heat stand next to Valleyview Drive. Once lovingly taken care of, the roadside memorials had become worn out, and last week a complete stranger decided he could no longer stand the...

KAMLOOPS — A survey of the worst roads in B.C. lists Todd Road in Barnhartvale as one of the 10 worst in the province and is one of only two to crack the list due to pedestrian and cycling safety concerns. BCAA released the list this morning after compiling four weeks worth of votes that identified...

KAMLOOPS — Property owners are getting to see the exact damage a 3.55 per cent tax hike has on their tax bill this week after property tax notices were mailed out late last week. Assessed property values changed little over the previous year, with the biggest change in any neighbourhood average coming in at about...

KAMLOOPS — The Kamloops Chamber of Commerce has been invited to take part in a discussion with Canada Post about the services the postal service is offering and will be offering in the future. While executive director Deb McLelland says she is unsure exactly what to expect from the meeting she knows Canada Post has...

KAMLOOPS — Heritage is important to the city and several sites are obvious pillars of our history – buildings such as the old courthouse downtown or Wilson House on the North Shore come to mind. But even with a historical commission in place since 1979, a historical society formed in 1995 and the bicentennial celebration...

KAMLOOPS — By July 1 the first phase of a 200 slip marina will grace the shores of Kamloops Lake thanks to new partnerships at Tobiano. The Tobiano resort saw development begin in 2006 but in 2010 the resort struggled financially and fell into receivership June 2011. In November 2012 approval was given for Bruker Developments...

"VALUE WE GET IS QUITE LARGE" KAMLOOPS—Eight city councillors were in Vancouver this past weekend for a national conference aimed at giving councils across the country a common voice and while one Kamloops councillor thinks there is great value in the conference he believes more work could be done to get the most out of...

Ken and Kathy Robertson bought a scratch ticket at Superstore and forgot about it as a weekend of babysitting their grandchildren kept them busy. Sunday the couple finally got around to scratching the ticket and were ecstatic to to see they had won the grand prize. “Kathy was practically on the roof,” Ken told BCLC...

THOMPSON-NICOLA — In 2012 more than $8 million was doled out to board members and staff of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District.  While staff only saw a token increase of $11,000 in salary pay over 2011, remuneration pay including expenses for board and committee members saw an increase of more than $50,000 over 2011 and is...

KAMLOOPS — Fulton Field is set to become even more electronically advanced thanks to a piece of equipment that will allow staff to check on runway conditions wirelessly. The safety equipment will provide wireless reporting and recording of runway conditions and is the latest improvement made possible through the Airports Capital Assistance Program, a federal...

KAMLOOPS — The B.C. Lions have been in Kamloops for less than a week and fans are flocking to Hillside Stadium daily to get a glimpse of the football club in action. This is the fifth year the annual training camp is being held in the Tournament Capital and a portion of nearly every day of...

KAMLOOPS — May was very wet. If you were counting, all but one of the past 15 days have had at least a trace of rain — a soggy end to a month that started with record-breaking high temperatures. May kicked off with a record-breaking week of well above normal temperatures, soaring to more than 29...

Driving on the Haltson Street ramps at 8th Street or maybe going through McGill Road and Summit Drive? You are driving through two of the worst intersections for collisions and it would cost ICBC $6.6 million in collision costs over five years and the city more than $400,000 to make the necessary safety improvements to...