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Q: When is the Windbreak project going to be completed and what is being done?
A: The Windbreak Street project has been pushed back a month. The Brocklehurst upgrades — which include a new bioswale, sidewalks, traffic-calming islands, improved bus stops and crosswalks — were...
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Stuart Wood’s ownership surprise creates consternation
The chairwoman of the Kamloops-Thompson school board is disappointed the city didn’t tell trustees it doesn’t completely own the Stuart Wood elementary property. Denise Harper said she learned two...
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Book review: Fishing for truth, with laughs along the way
There’s Ants in My Pants. There’s Dumb and Dumber. Lest we think it’s all fun on the river, chapters in author Randy Nelson’s book also include Fraser River Review and The Cohen Commission. The retired...
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‘Such an emotional day’
Starr Webb knows Sunday, Oct. 5 will be an emotional day. “Every year it just continues to overwhelm me,” says Webb, co-director of Kamloops Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure....
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New children’s psychiatric ward opens in Kamloops
Four years ago, children with psychiatric issues who needed to stay at Royal Inland Hospital were placed in the same ward as adults who had mental-health challenges. At the time, the Interior Health...
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Storm down Wranglers in 100 Mile House
Ian Chrystal added a goal and two assists to his team-leading 13 points on Friday, Oct. 3, as the Kamloops Storm defeated the 100 Mile House Wranglers 5-3. Kamloops plays two more divisional rivals...
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Upcoming theatre at TRU
The Actors Workshop Theatre kicks off a new season with a play called one of the most important of the year when it was introduced in Toronto in 1998. Patience is the story of Reuben, a man who loses...
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Blazers continue hot start with victory in Lethbridge
Jake Kryski scored the shootout winner and lifted the Kamloops Blazers to a 3-2 victory over the hometown Lethbridge Hurricanes on Friday, Oct. 3. Kamloops (4-1-1) captain Matt Needham forced the extra...
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Liberals in Kamloops choose Powrie as federal candidate
Federal Liberals voted to nominate Steve Powrie, a veteran school teacher and textbook author, as their candidate in next year’s election. About 100 party members listened to speeches from Powrie and...
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Creating alien lifegourds
It’s my favourite time of the year again — Halloween. I have to admit, I love all the creativity and dressing up that comes with this holiday. Here is a fun craft that you can do with the kids right...
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Walsh says he won’t run for mayor
After a final discussion with family and friends, Denis Walsh has decided he will not run for mayor in the Nov. 15 election. Walsh acknowledged he’s had plenty of encouragement to return to municipal...
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Penton: Ryder Cup a disaster for Americans
The Ryder Cup used to be a cakewalk for the United States. Automatic. If one word could be used to describe their biennial competition against Europe, it was “dominant.” Now, in the wake of the latest...
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WolfPack round-up: V-Ball ready for action, with slideshow
In this photo: Matt Krueger of the TRU WolfPack men’s volleyball team dives for a dig during exhibition action at the Tournament Capital Centre. Allen Douglas photo The TRU WolfPack women’s volleyball...
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Broncos bested in regular-season finale
Playing at Kelowna’s Apple Bowl to close out the regular season, the Kamloops Broncos dropped a 38-19 decision to the Okangan Sun on Sunday, Oct. 5. Kamloops enters the post-season as the B.C. Football...
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Hockey alive and well in 100 Mile
When Tom Bachynski and a group of community members set out to build the South Cariboo Recreation Centre in 2000, they knew junior B hockey could thrive in 100 Mile House. Fourteen years later, the 100...
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Break out the Chrystal: Storm forward takes league-lead in scoring
Ian Chrystal and the Kamloops Storm picked a good weekend to go on a roll. The club won three games on the weekend, defeating Doug Birks divisional rivals in the Revelstoke Grizzlies, 100 Mile House...
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Electoral Boundaries Commission told local ridings are fine as is
Leave it alone. Presenters to an Electoral Boundaries Commission hearing in Kamloops yesterday (Oct. 6) told the three-member panel the current local provincial political boundaries make sense and...
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New Gold annexation could take step forward
The city of Kamloops’ plan to annex the New Gold mine will take another step forward tomorrow if council approves a five-year plan for taxing the copper and gold mine currently situated just outside...
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Ajax vows to stay out of civic election
Despite suggestions to the contrary, one of the city’s most controversial donors is sitting out the Kamloops municipal election. KGHM Ajax, the company behind the copper and gold mine proposed sound of...
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Two-month jail term for dial-a-dope ring
A 24-year-old high-school graduate from a middle-class home will spend weekends in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of trafficking in crack cocaine. Jesse Secord, 24, was given a 60-day jail...
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