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RED BRIDGE – Fire that destroyed historic crossing was ‘suspicious’

September 19, 2024 // 9 Comments

The Red Bridge is gone. All that’s left is to clean up the mess and investigate the cause. RCMP remain at the scene, where a second fire in less than two days destroyed [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Why Mayor Hamer-Jackson should be at the UBCM convention

September 18, 2024 // 13 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MOST MEMBERS of Kamloops City council are at the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Vancouver. One of those who isn’t there [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A fly in the ointment of the alternative approval process

September 17, 2024 // 15 Comments

WHEN COLEY ECKER went to City Hall yesterday (Sept. 16, 2024), she was hoping for some reassurance about the thousands of AAP forms she and the Kamloops AAP Vote Group had [Continue]

DRUG ADDICTIONS – Eby announces plans for involuntary treatment centres

September 15, 2024 // 8 Comments

“Highly secure” facilities will be opened where people with long-term mental and health and addiction challenges get involuntary treatment, Premier David Eby [Continue]

POLICE – Son of Westsyde woman arrested, charged with her murder

September 13, 2024 // 0 Comments

The son of a Westsyde woman was arrested and charged today (Sept. 13, 2024) with her murder. Jo-Anne Donovan’s son, 35-year-old Brandon Jeremiah Donovan of Kamloops, was [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Music made by nobody for an audience of no one

September 12, 2024 // 0 Comments

MICHAEL SMITH of North Carolina is being charged with the theft of millions of dollars of royalty payments intended for real artists. In an elaborate scheme, he allegedly [Continue]