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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...

Proposal for 365-day public transit in Kamloops gets shot down

KAMLOOPS - The cost of adding additional statutory holidays like Christmas Day to the public transit schedule was too much for Kamloops council, who voted down a motion to offer transit every day of the year.  Coun. Donovan Cavers’ motion to implement transit 365 days out of the year was defeated seven to one; Cavers...

Residents to decide fate of Kamloops’ first marijuana grow-op

KAMLOOPS – Residents will have their opinions heard on a plan for a medical marijuana grow operation in the Gateway Industrial Park in Kamloops. The rezoning application goes to a public hearing tomorrow, Oct. 20.  The city's development and engineering services director Marvin Kwiatkowski has said while others have inquired, this is the city’s first formal...

Proposed road to Barnhartvale gravel pit concern for City of Kamloops, residents

KAMLOOPS –  A proposed road to a gravel pit in the Barnhartvale area has residents concerned about possibly losing their hiking trail, while the City of Kamloops has concerns about a busy service road running through a residential neighbourhood. The owner of the Hunter Gravel Pit has applied to the province to run a road...

Kamloops residents get say in changes to mixed-use complex

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops residents are being asked to weigh in over a rezoning to a mixed-use complex in the Southgate industrial area. A mixed-use complex at 1452 McGill Rd. will contain 14 multi-family residential units and commercial space for a restaurant and offices. The proprietor is now asking the city to increase its restaurant occupancy from...

First medical marijuana grow op application in Kamloops heads to public hearing

KAMLOOPS - Residents will have a say in whether a medical marijuana grow operation is approved in Gateway Park at the east end of the city. While there have been previous inquiries this is the first formal application for a grow op in Kamloops, development and engineering services director Marvin Kwiatkowski told city council today,...

Kamloops receives its first application for a medical marijuana grow operation

KAMLOOPS – Gateway Industrial Park could potentially be the home of Kamloops’s first medical marijuana grow operation.  “This is a first within the City of Kamloops. While we have had other inquiries this is the only formal application,” development and engineering services director Marvin Kwiatkowski says. The application is to rezone the property at 8170...

Staff against moving downtown casino to Aberdeen

KAMLOOPS - Relocating the Lake City Casino out of downtown will potentially weaken the core area and require ‘significant’ improvements to traffic and transportation in the Aberdeen and Pineview areas. “The loss of the casino in the City Centre may have an impact on downtown's social and economic fabric,” Development Director Marvin Kwiatkowski said in...

Big raises and six-figure salaries for Kamloops city employees

KAMLOOPS – More city employees continue to surpass the six-figure salary mark and as a result the city’s overall salary spending increased by more than $2 million in 2014. The city released its annual statement of financial information, which lists the top earners employed by the City of Kamloops, earlier this month. While the top...

New casino ups ante, looks to open by summer 2015

KAMLOOPS - An aggressive timeline has become even more aggressive as Gateway Casinos looks to relocate Lake City Casino from downtown to Aberdeen in time for a July 2015 opening. Gateway Casinos was originally looking at opening in October 2015 but with the recent approval of the necessary zoning requirements the company now hopes to...

Senior crossing gets more attention

KAMLOOPS - Though there are more than 110 signatures of support for a full traffic signal at Mayfair Street and Tranquille Road staff still believe the current system is safer. In a petition submitted to council this week residents, volunteers and staff at the RiverBend Seniors Community on Mayfair Street are asking for advanced left...