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If you're a homeowner in Kamloops, your overall tax bill for fiscal 2025 is going to be in the double-digits after all. When Kamloops Council began looking into the 2025 tax expectations before the end of 2024, initial indications were that it was going to be difficult to keep the hit under 10% as inflation, as well as...

Kamloops Mounties are reporting a significant drug bust which took place earlier this week in Valleyview. RCMP say they raided a motel room along the East Trans Canada, after tracking someone to that location who was allegedly trying to bolt from the Mounties in a vehicle. "On Sunday March 23, 2025 just before 7 a...

The BC government has once again stepped up to the plate to help provide critical infrastructure protection in Merritt -- all as the mayor of the community continues to wonder aloud when the federal government will live up to its post-flood promises. Emergency Management and Climate Readiness Minister Kelly Greene, who...

Kamloops RCMP have issued a bulletin for a missing 19-year-old woman, who hasn't been heard from in a week. Mounties are asking the public to keep an eye out for Letisha Ryan. The teenager was last seen on Wednesday, March 19th. "Since receiving the report, officers have made numerous efforts to locate Letisha, bu...

A long-requested call by Kamloops council -- this current edition as well as the previous council -- for complex-care expansion in Kamloops is being fulfilled. The BC government has announced plans to build a new 20-unit complex care facility on the provincially owned Columbia Precinct lands within the Glenfair senior'...

As Radio NL first told you a month ago, the Western Hockey League is expanding -- making it official today. The League has confirmed the Penticton Vees of the BC Hockey League have been granted a WHL franchise and will be followed a year later by a team in Chilliwack. "This is an exciting day, as the Western Hocke...

The federal political parties are now starting to line up their candidates for the forthcoming federal election, which has been officially set for April 28th. Here locally, both the NDP and the Liberals are still working to finalize their candidates for the two ridings which will now represent Kamloops in the House of ...

Another 24 hours without emergency room services for Lillooet. Originally supposed to re-open at 8 Monday morning after being shutdown for 49 hours starting Saturday morning, Interior Health has announced that its extending the current diversion to Tuesday morning at 8am. That will make it a 73 hour shutdown -- the lon...