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Time to try growing some vegetable or flower transplants
March 31, 2021 - 5:30 AM

If you’ve never grown your own transplants for your garden, perhaps this is the year to do it. It’s economical, it allows you to grow varieties you might not be able to buy as transplants, it’s satisfying and it’s easy.
Early winter blast struck end-of-harvest blow to Okanagan apple growers
October 30, 2020 - 6:30 AM

The early season snow followed by a blast of Arctic air in the southern Interior last weekend has wreaked havoc on apple and grape crops bringing an abrupt end to the harvest.
Don Rickles, king of insult comedy, dies at 90
April 07, 2017 - 5:45 AM

LOS ANGELES - Don Rickles, the big-mouthed, bald-headed "Mr. Warmth" whose verbal assaults endeared him to audiences and peers and made him the acknowledged grandmaster of insult comedy, died Thursday. He was 90.
REMINDER: Recycling changes start today in Kamloops
April 03, 2017 - 4:40 PM

KAMLOOPS - Are you sure that goes in the recycling?
College students aiming to make puck for blind hockey players
August 03, 2015 - 6:00 AM

TORONTO - A pair of Ontario college students is facing a tough crowd as they try to design an audible hockey puck that can be used by visually impaired players.
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The Kamloops Farmer’s Market is a bi-weekly market that beautifully showcases the bounty from the surrounding areas of the Thompson Valley. The big market happens on Saturdays with around 100 vendors on site selling their products. We

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Top News - Kamloops, Merritt and Areas

Time to try growing some vegetable or flower transplants

Early winter blast struck end-of-harvest blow to Okanagan apple growers

Don Rickles, king of insult comedy, dies at 90

REMINDER: Recycling changes start today in Kamloops

College students aiming to make puck for blind hockey players

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