Jennifer Stahn

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 - 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 - 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 — 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 — 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...

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...

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...