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Billets for the season, Blazers family for life

KAMLOOPS - Finding people a place to call home, rather than a place to crash, is Kerry Rubel’s speciality. Arranging billet homes for players on the Kamloops Blazers team is a family-learned practice. Her late mother Doris did it for 40 years. To make sure every Blazer gets a safe spot Rubel screens potential families...

UPDATE: Crashes on Coquihalla just outside of Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - Emergency personnel are on scene after two separate vehicle incidents around 3:30 p.m., both near Inks Lake on the Coquihalla Highway just outside of Kamloops.  A driver says she witnessed a vehicle flip and roll around four times approximately 13 kilometres outside of Kamloops.  "The wind was so bad. Everyone was driving 120...

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...

Packed house for record fair this weekend

KAMLOOPS - If you're looking to add to your music collection, or try out a new instrument, a record fair this weekend might be right up your alley.  CFBX, a local radio station out of the Thompson Rivers University campus, will host its largest record fair yet this Sunday, May 3.  The fundraiser sells everything...

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....

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...