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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
December 10, 2024 - 12:00 PM

Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the second week of December 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.
BC Election 2024: New-ish party and a familiar face favoured in Kamloops
October 16, 2024 - 6:00 PM

Kamloops voters are heading to the polls with new riding boundaries and just one incumbent on the ballot this time. If polls are to be trusted, that incumbent is favoured to take the seat under a new banner.
iN VIDEO: Vernon school board meeting disrupted and shut down by protesters
December 21, 2023 - 8:05 AM

A video posted on YouTube five days ago by a group calling itself Big Tree View shows what appears to be members of the Vernon School District Board walking out and shutting down their meeting as a woman reads a lengthy diatribe of accusations.
Village of Chase changes course, approves 'Every Child Matters' project
September 28, 2023 - 8:00 AM

Irvin Wai was just an infant when he was adopted and spared from the Indian residential school system.
Kamloops man home for Christmas after almost year-long battle with COVID-19
December 24, 2021 - 6:30 AM

A Kamloops man is back home with his family in time for Christmas, after spending 11 months in Royal Inland Hospital battling COVID-19.
Federal Election 2021: Odds in favour of new Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo Conservative candidate
September 06, 2021 - 6:00 PM

This is one riding where we know we'll get a new MP, but the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo riding is unlikely to sway from its history as a Conservative stronghold.
B.C. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip undergoing kidney transplant
February 03, 2021 - 12:08 PM

President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, is undergoing kidney transplant surgery today after successfully finding a donor.
Why we're seeing more anti-abortion protests in Kamloops and the Okanagan
October 15, 2019 - 7:32 AM

If you’ve been noticing more anti-abortion protests than usual in your city — it’s all by design.
Third NDP candidate for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo announced
September 23, 2019 - 8:35 AM

KAMLOOPS - The New Democratic Party of Canada has announced its third replacement candidate for the October federal election.
Pipeline demonstration planned for downtown Kamloops
November 24, 2016 - 4:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - With a federal decision coming up on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, local opponents are preparing a demonstration in downtown Kamloops tomorrow.
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LETTER: 'Be Kind. Be Calm. Be Safe.': COVID five years in
OPINION Be Kind. Be Calm. Be Safe. Those memorable words spoken during the COVID pandemic by BC’s Provincial Heath Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry resonated far beyond by boundaries of the province she so effect

Trying to buy Canadian? Shoppers in Kamloops, Okanagan find it isn't easy
A trade war with President Donald Trump has Canadian shoppers trying to source locally made grocery products, but understanding product labels at major grocery outlets is complicated and some major grocery outlets are not forthcoming with informa

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

West Kelowna, Kamloops fall behind BC government's 'unrealistic' housing targets
Both West Kelowna and Kamloops are failing to meet the province's housing targets, and politicians at the Okanagan city are frustrated. West Kelowna built 64 net new housing units over the past six months, and the BC government expects

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