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Ministry building vandalized with anti-mine message
KAMLOOPS - Employees at the Ministry of Environment offices in Kamloops arrived at work to discover their building targeted by someone with a message for Imperial Metals. On Wednesday, April 29, the message 'shut down Imperial Metals' was found scrawled across four different parts of the building. Cpl. Cheryl Bush, a spokesperson for the Kamloops...
City floats idea of more traffic cameras as bridge set to go down to two lanes
KAMLOOPS – The traffic cameras monitoring congestion during the construction on Overlanders Bridge have been so popular the city is considering adding more. Construction began on the bridge earlier this month and the city ensured the webcams were up and running before construction started to help monitor traffic. Public Works Director Jen Fretz says so...
Residents continue to ask questions surrounding Westsyde Pool closure
CITY SAYS CLOSURE NECESSARY FOR REPAIRS KAMLOOPS - While some Westsyde residents are crying foul over the impending Westsyde Pool closure a city manager says it is simply time to make the necessary repairs and upgrade the facility. Westsyde resident Amanda Cosgrove started a petition asking the city not only to re-think the Westsyde Pool...
Expect to see smoke along the Coquihalla this week
KAMLOOPS - A series of small burns north of Merritt, off the Coquihalla Highway, will be conducted by Wildfire Management Branch personnel starting this week. The controlled burns will take place Thursday, April 30, and Tuesday, May 5, and are in preparation for a training course that will help students determine the origin and cause...
Halston Connector crash ties up morning commute
KAMLOOPS - A three vehicle collision near Halston Avenue and Salish Road this morning sent a young boy to hospital and tied up traffic for 45 minutes. Staff Sgt. Doug Aird says an eastbound vehicle cut into the outside right lane just before the turn off to Highway 5 around 8 a.m., Tuesday, April 28....
Secwepemc elder preserving language as university ‘lleqméltn’
KAMLOOPS - Learning to speak our first language is a process we likely take for granted. Our families spoke it from the day we were born, we absorbed what they said and learned to speak, read and write it, and then our schools expanded on that knowledge as we got older. For Mona Jules learning...
What to expect if the performing arts centre goes to referendum
KAMLOOPS – The preliminary proposal for a performing arts centre in Kamloops has definitely got people talking and while where to build and what to include have, for the most part, been answered at the most basic level, what hasn’t is whether the public supports the $90-million project and the accompanying price tag. Mayor Peter...
Barenaked Ladies coming to Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - With a new album set to release in June, the Barenaked Ladies are ramping up for yet another Canadian tour this fall. The SILVERBALL tour will kick-off in Prince George on Oct. 19 before hitting the Interior Savings Centre in Kamloops on Oct. 24 and Prospera Place in Kelowna on Oct. 25. In...
Westsyde resident unhappy over pool closure, starts petition
KAMLOOPS – Westsyde Pool is set to shut down for more than a year as the city addresses a failing roof and not everyone is happy about the decision. “I am very upset about it and frustrated," Amanda Cosburn, a nurse and Westsyde resident, says. This week she started a petition in an effort to lobby the...
Kamloops SPCA prepares for FurBall, City Challenge
KAMLOOPS – May will once again be a busy month for the local B.C. SPCA as it pushes forward with its largest fundraiser of the year — the month-long City Challenge, which will include the second annual FurBall and several other events. The City Challenge will once again pit Kamloops against Prince George, this year...
Tokens to feed the hungry taking off at Kamloops bakery
KAMLOOPS - Feeding the less fortunate was something Erwin’s bakery manager Robyn Haley did for a number of years before her new free sandwich token program launched, but she didn’t plan to sell all 250 tokens in three days. The program is simple. Customers can buy tokens for $2.25 which are handed out to those...
KGHM promises information site with ‘plain language summaries’
KAMLOOPS – The company behind the proposed Ajax Mine is once again assuring council, and city residents, of its commitment to transparency with a promise to make easy to read summaries readily available to the public. In a letter to council KGHM Ajax Mine External Affairs Manager Yves Lacasse says there will be ‘plain language...
Upgrades coming to Pavilion Theatre
KAMLOOPS - Federal funding will help the Pavilion Theatre with renovations and upgrades this summer. The Canada Cultural Spaces Fund has announced $60,000 in funding for the Western Canada Theatre Society. The money will help the 165-seat black box theatre with a new heating, ventilation and air conditioning system for the performance space and lobby....
UPDATE: SUV left precariously perched; car crash on Trans Canada in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - A crash between two Alberta drivers held up traffic in the westbound lane of the Trans Canada east of the Peterson Creek Bridge in Kamloops during the morning commute. Capt. Troy Grant with Kamloops Fire Rescue says a Ford SUV and a Jeep collided on Hwy 1 near the Yellowhead off-ramp after the...
You can now watch nesting ospreys online
KAMLOOPS - The ospreys are moving in at a farm near Kamloops and a newly-installed webcam is allowing us to watch the beautiful birds make a home and raise a family without disturbing them. After the camera was first installed, a bald eagle took a look around the nest. Not what the people at WildSafe...