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City Of Kamloops

Costs more to park in downtown Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – The downtown parking stations in Kamloops want more of your money. As of Saturday, Jan. 2, the parking rates have gone up, according to a media release from the city. It will now cost you $1.25 for the first and second hour to park downtown, and $2.50 for the third hour. That's up...

Where to toss your Christmas tree in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – When the presents have been unwrapped, the eggnog has been drunk and the holidays are over, you’re going to want to toss your Christmas tree. Remove your tinsel, decorations and miscellaneous wires or plastic and bring it to any one of 12 locations within the city. From Dec. 27 through to Jan. 15...

Holiday changes to curbside collection and landfill hours in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - With several holiday days left in 2015, schedule changes to curbside garbage and recycling pickup in the City of Kamloops will impact residents during the last week of December. There is no collection Dec. 25 and 28, and Jan. 1. This will result in all areas getting pushed back two days and no...

Weird winter weather in Kamloops, but snow removal came in under budget

KAMLOOPS - Mother Nature can be unpredictable but the City of Kamloops managed to clear the snow without blowing the budget in 2015. It was a year of weirdly unpredictable weather streets and environmental services manager Glen Farrow says. The city spent $100,000 more on contactors during the heavy snowfall of Jan. 4 and 5...

Kamloops Cascades Casino looking at new parking options

KAMLOOPS - Cascades Casino is looking to expand with plans to build an outdoor amphitheatre but in order to move forward the casino has had to settle previous issues with parking. Gateway Casinos, Cascades’ parent company, recently submitted a draft parking plan to the City of Kamloops looking at other possible options, Marvin Kwiatkowski, the...

Kamloops extends pesticide ban to municipal property

KAMLOOPS - A ban on pesticide use on residential ornamental shrubs, flower beds and grass now extends to city parks and properties in Kamloops. In a split 5-4 vote yesterday, Dec. 15, council voted to extend the ban to include all civic properties and city parks. Council had already agreed to implement a residential ban, which will begin...

City plan to tear down the Daily News building draws both criticism and approval

KAMLOOPS – The City of Kamloops is planning to tear down the former Daily News Building downtown, the spot originally picked for a proposed performing arts centre. While at least one city councillor is against the plan, the spokesperson for group which fought and lost the referendum to build the performing arts centre believes it...

How far the City of Kamloops and CP Rail must go to protect people from themselves

PEDESTRIANS CLIMBING THROUGH PARKED TRAINS, RACING TO BEAT APPROACHING TRAINS KAMLOOPS - When a Transport Canada railway safety inspector visited the city's 3 Avenue crossing in July, 2014, he witnessed so much danger to the public, the crossing was almost closed to the public entirely. Dennis Maskell's report kicked off a still-ongoing negotiation between the...

Kamloops explores options to deal with biosolids

KAMLOOPS – All sewage treatment centres produce biosolids. The question for the City of Kamloops is what to do with them. The city’s new sewage treatment centre opened March 2015 and not only does it processes its biosolids differently than before, but it also produces more. Public works director Jen Fretz says the city is...

Kamloops looking to expand pesticide ban to city parks

KAMLOOPS - After passing a new bylaw banning the residential cosmetic use of pesticides, council will decide whether to take the bylaw one step further and ban the same use on city land. On Tuesday, Dec. 15, council will debate banning the cosmetic use of pesticides on municipal property, including parks like Riverside. A residential...

Kamloops permanently closes section of Rivers Trail

KAMLOOPS - A section of the Rivers Trail directly underneath the Yellowhead Bridge will be permanently closed. City staff recommended closing roughly 200 metres of trail because of erosion from water dripping off of the bridge. The current barricades and signage at the site of the washout are no longer sufficient and it has become...

City council to consider closing a section of Kamloops Rivers Trail

KAMLOOPS – A section of the Rivers Trail directly underneath the Yellowhead Bridge in Kamloops may be permanently closed. City staff are recommending the closure of roughly 200 metres of trail because of heavy erosion from water dripping off of the bridge. A report on the issue is going to city council at their regular...

UPDATE: Flaggers removed from contentious railway crossing in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - Canadian Pacific Railway and the City of Kamloops came to an agreement after Transport Canada rescinded an order to have 24-hour flagging services at the railway crossing on 3 Avenue by the Sandman Centre in the city's downtown.  The order was rescinded today, Dec. 4.  The measure came after Canadian Pacific contacted Transport...

Why Kamloopsians will be paying more for their recycling

KAMLOOPS – The cost of processing the material collected in the Kamloops recycling program is going up and that cost is being passed onto homeowners in the city. Residents will be paying roughly $17 more per year in recycling fees in the New Year. The city is citing the recently renewed recycling contract with Emterra...

Utility rates on the rise in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - Taxpayers will have to dig a little deeper in their pockets in 2016, utility charges and property taxes are set to increase by an average of nearly $60 per household. Council was presented with a preliminary budget report and asked to authorize an additional $2.95 million to the combined operational and capital budgets...

Norkam Clinic gets local support for loading zone

KAMLOOPS - Council agreed to give a patient loading zone outside of the North Shore’s Norkam Clinic another look and so far residents are supporting the request. In order to create the loading zone the bus stop which currently sits in front of the clinic will have to be moved down the street. Earlier in...