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New riverfront homeless shelter planned for Kamloops
February 12, 2025 - 4:30 PM

Kamloops is getting a new homeless shelter near downtown.
Kamloops to ask taxpayers to approve $150M for new RCMP detachment
February 12, 2025 - 10:05 AM

Kamloops is going to ask voters for their approval to take out another multi-million dollar loan. This time it's for a $150 million RCMP detachment.
Kamloops man arrested during early morning home invasion
February 05, 2025 - 8:50 AM

A family woke up to someone trying to break into their home early in the morning in Kamloops on Monday.
Build Kamloops projects so far on track in face of US tariffs
February 05, 2025 - 7:50 AM

Don't expect the threat of American tariffs to derail $275 million in planned loans for new Kamloops facilities.
Kamloops cops searching for two men in arson investigation
January 31, 2025 - 11:46 AM

Kamloops RCMP are hoping someone can identify these two people connected to an arson investigation.
One injured in ‘serious incident’ in downtown Kelowna: RCMP
January 24, 2025 - 8:58 AM

Kelowna RCMP have closed off part of Saucier Avenue because someone was injured in a serious incident.
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JONESIE: Booing the American anthem is understandable, but the wrong strategy
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'No rationale': BC pub fined $7,000 for customer drinking beer in its bowling alley
A BC pub has been fined $7,000 after a customer took a beer from the bar to its bowling alley. According to a Jan. 16 BC Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch decision, the Victoria bar argued the rule was difficult to manage because custom

France targets traffickers and recreational drug users as minister warns of a 'tsunami of cocaine'
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Kelowna rental property manager gets licence cancelled
The managing broker of a Kelowna property management company whose clients complained they hadn't gotten their money has been suspended. According to a Feb. 10 BC Financial Services Authority decision, Tao Guo, who goes by Terry Guo, ha

New riverfront homeless shelter planned for Kamloops