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Meet Doug the beaver the watershed recovery engineer working near Kamloops
November 28, 2024 - 7:00 PM

At the heart of Skeetchestn territory is the Deadman Watershed, a living landscape of roughly 900 square kilometres of forest and grassland northwest of Kamloops (Tk’emlups).
'Merchants of death': Lengthy sentence for Vernon fentanyl dealer
July 01, 2024 - 6:00 PM

Vernon resident Cody Carl Charles Wellington was on bail and supposed to be living in a treatment centre under 24-hour house arrest when he stole a Ford F-350 from someone's driveway.
Problem bear still there, picnicking on household garbage in Kamloops
June 18, 2022 - 2:31 PM
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A young bear that moved into a Kamloops neighbourhood two months ago is still causing problems in the community.
Two smash-and-grabs within two weeks at Kamloops coffee shop
March 16, 2022 - 4:30 PM

A coffee shop in North Kamloops is on the mend after facing its fifth break and enter in less than three months.
Drumming memorial organized to support snowbirds after member dies in Kamloops plane crash
May 18, 2020 - 8:00 AM

A Kamloops resident is organizing a drumming session to honour the Canadian Forces Snowbirds after they lost a member in a plane crash yesterday.
Here's what you need to know for the school year in the Kamloops-Thompson district
August 31, 2018 - 4:00 PM

KAMLOOPS - A new school year is just about to begin for the Kamloops-Thompson school district, and there are some things parents and students need to know.
Third theft this year leaves Kamloops garden centre owner wondering why she's a target
May 01, 2018 - 5:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - After getting hit with their second theft earlier this spring, the owner of Agri Supply in Valleyview acted quickly by reporting it to police and inquiring about more security cameras.
Kamloops garden centre broken into twice already this spring
April 24, 2018 - 3:00 PM

KAMLOOPS - A frustrated business owner in Kamloops is asking for the public’s help to stop thieves that have broken into her garden centre for the second time this spring.
$75,000 fence cut from Kamloops's Canada 150 celebrations
November 29, 2016 - 6:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - Plans for street hockey games, gardens and gear are going ahead for the city’s Canada 150 celebration, but the biggest ticket item was dropped from Kamloops's celebration budget.
Kamloops preparations for Canada's 150 birthday includes street hockey, a fence and a lot of trees
November 28, 2016 - 11:44 AM

KAMLOOPS - With Canada’s 150 birthday coming up, and organizations preparing for a year of activities, municipal staff are working on a few ways for Kamloops to celebrate.
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JONESIE: Booing the American anthem is understandable, but the wrong strategy
OPINION Well that wasn’t very Canadian, was it? In Montreal, they booed the Americans and the American anthem at the Four Nations hockey tournament. That’s of particularly poor taste to invite guests into your own

'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'
PARIS (AP) — “Every day, people pay the price for the drugs you buy.” Amid record cocaine seizures and deadly shootings, the slogan is simple and aims to raise awareness among France’s millions of recreational drug u

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

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63-year-old Vernon man convicted for sending harassing online messages
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West Kelowna killer Ronda Black ordered to return to correctional facility
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