Thanks to all who helped create new Journalism bursary
I had the pleasure of presenting the first Armchair Mayor News Journalism Bursary to Brittany Kapsha at the recent TRU awards day. Brittany is completing her Journalism [Continue]
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Big changes in store for Armchair Mayor News as it joins NewsKamloops.com
Some big changes are coming for The Armchair Mayor News. This coming week, the blog will merge with a new website called NewsKamloops.com, an online newspaper I’m [Continue]
McLeod first of the mark for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo as Harper announces 78-day federal election campaign
NEWS/ POLITICS — Incumbent MP Cathy McLeod was first local candidate off the mark today (Sunday) in what will be an 11-week election campaign in the [Continue]
Extreme heat worries firefighters
NEWS/ WILDFIRES — Action stepped up today on the long-burning Cisco Road wildfire 10 km. south of Lytton, prompting a surge in efforts to contain it. The B.C. Wildfire [Continue]
Beware of the credit card skimmer
NEWS/ POLICE — Kamloops RCMP today released photos of a credit card skimmer used at a local gas station and warned the public to beware. The skimmers, which steel credit [Continue]
Council wants both KGHM, KAPA to chip in for independent study on Ajax mine application
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]
6 taken to RIH after Coq pileups
NEWS/ POLICE — Six people were taken to Royal Inland Hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a multi-vehicle pileup in during rain and hail storm on the [Continue]
City ponders $300,000 for independent review of Ajax environmental application
NEWS/ AJAX — Kamloops City council will be asked next week to approve $300,000 for independent consultants to review the KGHM Ajax environmental assessment permit [Continue]
Final version of application guidelines issued — what KGHM Ajax must tell us about its plan
NEWS/ AJAX — KGHM Ajax has received its final marching orders on what it must cover in its application for an environmental assessment permit to build a giant open-pit gold [Continue]
Greens bring election slate to four
NEWS/ POLITICS — The Greens are in for the upcoming federal election, expanding the slate to four in the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo riding. The party announced today that [Continue]
Adams West — small fire, big trouble
NEWS/ WILDFIRES — The Adams West wildfire may be small compared to some of the monsters burning elsewhere in the province, but it’s causing problems out of proportion [Continue]
Highway 97C residents on fire alert
NEWS/ WILDFIRES — Twenty-eight properties are on evacuation alert in an area 15 km southeast of Ashcroft as fire crews try to get a handle on the 600-hectare Coldstream [Continue]
Closure of bridge ramp postponed
UPDATE — The closure of the west off ramp at the south end of the Overlanders Bridge has been postponed until Monday, July 27. City transportation coordinator Colleen Lepik [Continue]
Spina’s wine rule ‘misinformed’ – industry
NEWS/ CITY HALL — A proposal by a City councillor to put a one-km separation rule on wine outlets is “misinformed,” says a spokesperson for Kamloops’ [Continue]
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