Jennifer Stahn

The final day of World Junior Curling Championships round robin play brought both a win and a loss for Team Canada, but in the end a record of three wins six losses was not enough for the Kamloops team to make the playoffs. The womens team – skip Corryn Brown, third Erin Pincott, second Sam...

By Jennifer Stahn Joel Edmundson, 19, was signed to a three-year entry level contact this week by the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. Drafted by the Blues in the second round - 46th overall - of the 2011 NHL Draft the Brandon, Man. Native has played a total of 188 games in...

By Jennifer Stahn This afternoon, Wednesday, March 6, local party candidates will tackle the questions of forestry groups at a town hall forum at Thompson Rivers University. Coastal and Southern Interior Silviculture Committees and the Canadian Institute of Forestry are concerned over the future of the forestry industry in British Columbia due to events like...

By Jennifer Stahn A presentation to the city of Kamloops Tuesday afternoon had councillors asking questions about the trend of residential housing in Kamloops and whether the city is competitive when it comes to development costs. Development cost charges – or DCCs - are used in more than 100 communities in British Columbia and have...

By Jennifer Stahn Another couple hours of discussion was all it took for Kamloops city council to approve a five-year borrowing plan to replace the aging parking meters in the downtown core with new kiosks later this year. Council voted to first separate the four items up for discussion – the addition of a capital...

By Jennifer Stahn With construction to improve Highland Road between Valleyview Drive and Qu'Appelle Boulevard in Juniper Ridge set for later this year the public will get a chance to see the plans in advance and provide feedback. The project will involve the widening of Highland Road to three travel lanes – two up and...

By Jennifer Stahn Slick roads were not the only thing caused by the steady rain that soaked Kamloops Saturday night – it also contributed to a rock slide on Hugh Allan Drive behind the Costco gas station that saw rock spill over the concrete barriers and block both lanes of traffic. Crews were on scene...

By Jennifer Stahn With many upgrades for Lorne Street either in the works or already completed, Kamloops City Council will get a chance to ask local artists to design an artistic entrance feature and a sign for one of the entrances to Riverside Park. Council will be asked at Tuesday's meeting to allow the Arts...

By Jennifer Stahn Amazing Race is coming to Canada and among the 1,300 teams hoping to earn one of the dozen or so spots are two teams from Kamloops. Chris Monteleone and Nick Cundari were born and raised in Kamloops and while both have travelled extensively neither one has spent much time visiting other areas...

By Jennifer Stahn Forestry is the first item on the agenda for candidates in the May 2013 provincial election as members of industry groups have organized a town hall forum for March 6 at Thompson Rivers University. Coastal and Southern Interior Silviculture Committees and the Canadian Institute of Forestry are concerned over the future the...

HOUSING SOCIETY MOVING INTO BATTLE STREET: WHAT DO YOU THINK? By Jennifer Stahn Kamloops residents will get a chance to offer an opinion on the plans RareBirds Housing Co-operative has for its property on Battle Street West at a public hearing Tuesday evening. The $1.2 million modern two-storey building is set to house up to...

LOCAL MLA AND B.C. CONSERVATIVES IN THE PLAYGROUND By Jennifer Stahn The B.C. Conservatives and Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Kevin Krueger have started their elections with an escalating war of words and Conservative candidate Peter Sharp accusing Krueger of being a bully. It began Tuesday when the Conservatives called on Premier Christy Clark to suspend Pat...

By Jennifer Stahn With two projects worth millions of dollars on display at the Interior Savings Centre Tuesday evening Kamloops residents got the chance to look at plans and ask questions – and they took advantage of the opportunity. With the focus on the cost of upgrading the current parking meters to newer pay station...

By Jennifer Stahn After announcing earlier this month that work on the twinning of Highway 1 east of Kamloops would move forward this year the federal government has put the first phase of a 6.1-km. segment between Monte Creek and Pritchard to tender. Phase one will see three kilometres of the stretch between Pritchard and...

By Jennifer Stahn It will be a full race in the Fraser-Nicola riding at the May 14 election following an announcement by the B.C. Conservatives that Michael Beauclair will be running against incumbent Harry Lali of the NDP and Jackie Tegart for the B.C. Liberals. Lali is just completing his fourth term and currently serves...

By Jennifer Stahn Secwepemc literally translates to "spread out the people" and the term is very apt in describing a culture that can be found over the expanse of an 18,000 km territory, but the word endangered could be used to describe the language with only 200 individuals currently speaking it fluently. Kathy Manuel, language...

By Jennifer Stahn Kamloops-area members of the BC Conservatives made their vote count yesterday in deciding which candidate will run in the Kamloops South Thompson riding at the May 14 provincial election. In the end Peter Sharp beat out Maria Dobi - who ran for the BC Conservatives in the 2009 election - at the...

By Jennifer Stahn A report recommending replacement of parking meter infrastructure caused a frenzy of questions and debate lasting nearly an hour at Kamloops council and now the city plans to bring the conversation back March 5 to give the public a chance to weigh in. Community safety and enforcement manager Jon Wilson introduced his...

By Jennifer Stahn As council prepares to look at another variance request at a council meeting today (Tuesday, Feb. 19) some may be asking why there appears to be a barrage of requests coming through, and why these dog variances have become such a big deal. According to Mayor Peter Milobar they are not a...