Jennifer Stahn

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...

By Jennifer Stahn For the second time in as many years the Big Little Science Centre (BLSC) is trading spaces, thanks to the recent reallocation of space by School District 73 to accommodate the growing programs of the Twin Rivers Education Centre (TREC) and Four Directions storefront. Currently located at the former George Hilliard School...

By Jennifer Stahn A group formed to help oppose the proposed Ajax mine is now saying a controlled blast that took place two years ago was not nearly sufficient enough to ease residents concerns over future blasting, or to fulfill requirements of the environmental assessment process. Kamloops Area Preservation Association (KAPA) spokesperson John Schleiermacher said...

By Jennifer Stahn The NDP Party of BC said it would like to see the Science World program reinstated, less than a year after the Liberal Party pulled the $1-million in funding necessary for the program to bring technology and science to communities around the province, party leader Adrian Dix said during a visit to...

By Jennifer Stahn Provincial NDP leader Adrian Dix was in Kamloops today, Friday, Feb. 15, to talk about the NDP's plans to reinstate Science World, a program that brought the wonder of science and technology to children and visited more than 150 communities across the province before it's funding was cut. It didn't take long...

By Jennifer Stahn Concern over commercial truck traffic using Hwy 5A to bypass the portion of the Coquihalla Highway between Kamloops and Merritt has come to the forefront again after a flatbed trailer became disengaged along the winding highway earlier this week. It's an incident that area residents say could have resulted in tragedy, but...

Valentine's Day just got a bit more expensive, with gas prices shooting up 12 cents per litre in some locations today. Travellers who didn't fill up this morning may be surprised to see prices that were hovering around the 111.9 mark this morning now hiked to 123.9 cents per litre or more. And while filling...

A downtown Kamloops eatery that is a favourite among locals and visitors will not be open for about a week following a small kitchen fire late Tuesday afternoon. Hello Toast posted a notice on its door Wednesday saying it will take about a week for crews to clean up the restaurant - which specializes in...