Kamloops Daily News

LETTER – KDN building could have been used for new police headquarters

December 1, 2025 // 3 Comments

Dear Armchair Mayor, I certainly don’t know a lot of the history of the building which used to house your local newspaper but I know enough to realize they made a big [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Draining the swamp is nothing new, not in Kamloops

March 21, 2025 // 2 Comments

Long, long ago, before Donald Trump and Elon Musk came along to drain the swamp, take a chainsaw to bureaucracy and seek revenge on political opponents, there was the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Mourning the loss of the city’s daily newspaper 10 years ago

January 23, 2024 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. TEN YEARS AGO, in January 2014, Kamloops lost its daily newspaper. I don’t think the city has fully recovered. The Kamloops Daily News [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Why would anybody in their right mind go into journalism?

October 21, 2023 // 7 Comments

STOP ME IF YOU’VE heard this one but, in 1968, I was broke, out of a job, and had a young family to support. I’d been fired from a Prince George newspaper after it [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – The night The Daily News published for the last time

October 20, 2023 // 1 Comment

This column was first published Jan. 11, 2014: I DON’T THINK I’VE EVER SEEN more strength of character in one room than I did at the wake held by Kamloops Daily [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – 50 years in Kamloops – time flies when you’re having fun

August 1, 2020 // 1 Comment

THE SUMMER OF 1970 was a busy time, especially on Monday, Aug. 3. There wasn’t yet a B.C. Day stat holiday; it was the beginning of a new work week. The sky was clear, the [Continue]