City Issues

COVID – City employees can choose rapid testing over full vaccination

November 1, 2021 // 1 Comment

City of Kamloops employees who choose not to be fully vaccinated by Dec. 15 may choose regular rapid testing for COVID-19 instead. The City made the announcement today (Nov. [Continue]

RITCEY – Aberdeen development must be sustainable

July 9, 2020 // 2 Comments

By JESSE RITCEY Kamloops Naturalist Club AT A PUBLIC HEARING on Tuesday, July 14, Kamloops City Council is being asked to amend planning guidelines to allow for less [Continue]

WEATHER – Downtown snow removal to get underway overnight

January 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

Downtown snow removal will start tonight (Jan. 15, 2020) at 8 p.m., and crews will work until 6 a.m. on Thursday morning to clear the windrows from Lansdowne, Victoria, and [Continue]

CITY COUNCIL – Combined park, disc golf gets nod for McArthur Island

January 29, 2019 // 7 Comments

Despite public input strongly favoring preservation of the old McArthur Island golf course property as a passive nature park, Kamloops City council today (Jan. 29, 2019) [Continue]

PARKING – 17 stalls shifted from public to reserved parking at KDN lot

January 15, 2018 // 5 Comments

The City’s new parking lot on the former Kamloops Daily News site now has fewer stalls available to shoppers and more available to pass holders, and every one of the [Continue]

CITY COUNCIL – $100,000 downtown parking study rejected on tie vote

November 7, 2017 // 7 Comments

A $100,000 downtown parking study was rejected by Kamloops City council on the closest of votes Tuesday (Nov. 7, 2017). After more than an hour of debate, the proposed study [Continue]

Day 1 – ‘Smooth as silk’ or slow going?

April 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

What are your first impressions of bridge traffic? Take the poll on this page NEWS/ BRIDGE — One day gone, about 179 to go. How was the first day of negotiating through [Continue]

Plugging in to eco-friendly driving — it took almost a year but she has her electric car

April 24, 2014 // 4 Comments

By MICHELE YOUNG Three vehicles sit parked in the driveway of Gisela Ruckert’s Lower Sahali home. A Honda CRV, a Honda Pilot and a Smart Electric Drive. As they say in [Continue]

Stuart Wood, KDN, Columbia Street issues prompt new neighbourhood association

April 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

By MIKE YOUDS/ NEWS — A group forming a downtown/West End neighbourhood association is citing possible closure of the last school in downtown Kamloops, changes to Columbia [Continue]

With bees on the agenda, backyard chickens should be brought back for discussion too

March 14, 2014 // 2 Comments

FRIDAY MORNING EDITORIAL — There’s a lot of buzz about the upcoming public hearing on allowing backyard bees in Kamloops. People will, no doubt, swarm to it. [Continue]

The Ajax question with no answer — what will mine do to quality of life?

May 6, 2013 // 2 Comments

For all the questions it left unanswered, the KGHM International letter to mayor and council, released just before the weekend, answered, in a sense, the biggest and most [Continue]

Why TRU tourism class is way off base on Tournament Capital

April 11, 2013 // 2 Comments

Interesting story in today’s Daily News about the Canada’s Tournament Capital brand. TRU lecturer David Carter has assigned his tourism-management class to come [Continue]

What I learned on a week of the Food Bank Diet

December 7, 2012 // 1 Comment

I’m trying to decide how to wrap up my day on this Friday, Dec. 7, but I’m pretty sure a good meal and a glass of Chardonnay will figure prominently. Since last [Continue]

City trying to bring escort agencies into the open

October 19, 2012 // 0 Comments

I wrote in Thursday’s Armchair Mayor column for The Daily News about the City’s planned change in business-licence fees for escort agencies. Under amendments to the [Continue]