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BY-ELECTION – McQuarrie enters race for mayor, proposes zero% tax hike

August 15, 2017 // 8 Comments

The number of mayoral candidates in the Sept. 30 Kamloops by-election is back up to four with the announcement today (Aug. 15, 2017) that business owner Bill McQuarrie is [Continue]

AJAX – ‘Heightened uncertainties’ on air quality, health, says SLR’s final report

June 13, 2017 // 4 Comments

A short excerpt from the SLR Consulting final report on the Ajax mine application released by the City today (June 13, 2017). The full 70-page report is available online on [Continue]

CITY COUNCIL – Spina makes her resignation official; by-election is on

May 30, 2017 // 1 Comment

Kamloops voters will be going to the polls to elect at least one or two new City councillors and probably a mayor, likely in September. A letter from Coun. Marg Spina was [Continue]

CITY COUNCIL – Singh steps in for ‘audition’ as mayor; Spina to resign

May 16, 2017 // 4 Comments

Coun. Arjun Singh has stepped into the mayor’s chair, but for how long? Peter Milobar, now that he’s an MLA-elect, tried to clarify in a letter to City council today May [Continue]

CITY – Residents evacuated as state of local emergency declared

April 28, 2017 // 1 Comment

Eight residents at 5225 Yellowhead Highway have been evacuated due to sloughing of a hillside. The City of Kamloops activated its Emergency Operations Centre and declared a [Continue]

CITY HALL – Council moves ahead with KDN teardown for ‘temporary’ parking

April 25, 2017 // 3 Comments

City council moved ahead today (April 25, 2017) with plans to tear down the Kamloops Daily News building and “temporarily” put up a parking lot. After hearing from [Continue]

CITY HALL – Old newspaper property could be a parking lot by this fall

April 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Kamloops Daily News building and attached land on the corner of 4th and Seymour could be a big parking lot by this fall. A report going to City council on Tuesday says [Continue]

CITY HALL – Hush-hush search for a ‘better idea’ for Kamloops Daily News site comes up empty-handed

April 21, 2017 // 6 Comments

A year-long search for a “better idea” for the former Kamloops Daily News site on the corner of Fourth and Seymour will end with the smack of a wrecking ball, if [Continue]

COUNCIL – ‘We declare our opposition to racism and discrimination…’

February 28, 2017 // 3 Comments

Kamloops is now officially against racism and discrimination of all kinds. City council accepted a Notice of Motion today (Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017) from Coun. Arjun Singh with [Continue]

DUDY – ‘I will not be seeking the Mayor’s chair at this time’

December 17, 2016 // 4 Comments

Coun. Dieter Dudy won’t run for mayor “at this time” and isn’t taking a position on whether there should be a by-election or whether council should [Continue]

Council wants both KGHM, KAPA to chip in for independent study on Ajax mine application

July 28, 2015 // 11 Comments

By MIKE YOUDS The City will ask mine proponent KGHM as well as its chief opponent, Kamloops Area Preservation Association, to contribute to the estimated $300,000 cost of [Continue]

After two months and two hours of debate, Council puts ban on cosmetic pesticides

July 14, 2015 // 14 Comments

By MIKE YOUDS After two months of impassioned debate, hundreds of emails and countless phone calls, it fell to Coun. Arjun Singh’s deciding vote on Tuesday to ban [Continue]

‘Save landscapes, keep pesticides’

June 23, 2015 // 9 Comments

By MIKE YOUDS Banning commercial use of cosmetic pesticides would backfire on the City, leading more property owners to resort to chemicals available at retail stores and [Continue]

City buys $10 million landfill ‘thorn’

June 23, 2015 // 4 Comments

‘We don’t need to spend $10 million’ By MIKE YOUDS All but one city councillor voted in favour Tuesday of borrowing $10 million to buy the Owl Road Landfill, long cast [Continue]