Jennifer Stahn

PRITCHARD - In November the Chase Landfill reached capacity and by the end of the month a new eco-depot will open at the Pritchard Transfer Station in an effort to reduce the amount of waste going to landfills. Area residents were supportive of the South Thompson Eco-Depot at a public meeting last year that outlined...

KAMLOOPS – They are not sure how long he has lived in Kamloops or if he is one the hundreds of homeless people who make camp along the river, but RCMP have been able to identify the victim of last week's homicide as 32-year-old Michael Irving Young. Police believe Young, who also went by Michael...

KAMLOOPS – Renovations of the child psychiatric unit have taken a step forward after Interior health put out a request for proposals for consultant services. The renovations will help Royal Inland Hospital better meet the needs of both psychiatric and general pediatric patients “These renovations will help ensure the environment at Royal Inland is safe...

KAMLOOPS – A call to a domestic dispute became ugly Tuesday evening as a man turned on police, trying to go after an officer's gun and yelling at police to shoot him. Around 7 p.m. RCMP were called to a home on 13th Street near Lethbridge Avenue on the North Shore where a 45-year-old man...

KAMLOOPS – Nearly one-third of all city employees make more than $75,000 annually. Accounting for more than $9.19 million in staff salaries and making up nearly half of that third are members of the fire department. More than $56 million was paid to city employees and council in 2012 and even though expenses were reduced...

KAMLOOPS – Ranging from cool and wet to hot and dry, June weather had it all and if it seemed like the wet weather was more than normal and the weather hotter than normal, it was, but not by as much as you may think. The average daily high temperature in June is 24.8 C...

KAMLOOPS - The 2013 NHL Draft saw two Kamloops Blazers chosen this past weekend. Forward JC Lipon was ranked at 83 heading into the draft and was selected by the Winnipeg Jets in the third round, 91 overall. With a final ranking of 92, Cole Ully was chosen in the fifth round, 131 overall, by...

KAMLOOPS – It was close, but Kamloops didn't quite hit the mark for record temperatures over the holiday weekend. We hit 38.1 C at the airport yesterday and with the humidity it felt like 41 C but that was not enough to top the record high, though several nearby towns did break records on Canada...

KAMLOOPS – Art, music, cake and heat. It was the perfect Canada Day in Kamloops this year though many people who came to Riverside Park Monday came in search of shade and water more than sun this year. The annual event celebrating the birthday of our country draws thousands of spectators, browsers and partiers for...

KAMLOOPS – Around 200 firefighters from around the province diverged on Kamloops to take part in training, workshops, an annual general meeting, the wildfire simulation and firefighter competition as part of the First Nations Emergency Services Society of B.C. annual safety expo this past week. It was the first time the First Nations firefighters competition...

KAMLOOPS – Summer is officially here, school is out and the heat means summer has officially arrived and all in time for the Canada Day. The Canada Day folk and arts festival at Riverside Park kicked off with a pancake breakfast this morning and runs straight through the day before capping off at 10 p.m....

KAMLOOPS - Taylor Swift is on her way to a June 29 concert in Vancouver but the trucks hauling her stage stopped in Kamloops Thursday, resulting in a flurry of tweets wondering whether the starlet would also be stopping Kamloops. The semi trucks hauling the stage filled the Flying J parking lot on the east...