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No Candidates Live In This Riding

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.30.2013 | Canada British Columbia

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - It's totally within provincial election rules, but it's still a rare situation in the riding of Kamloops-North Thompson because none ...

Whoever Wins Kamloops, Wins Election

CP | Vivian Luk, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.27.2013 | Canada British Columbia

Whoever wins Kamloops, wins the election.This old adage of B.C. politics has been the case since 1903, and Ray Pillar can't begin to understand for ce...

Now THIS Is How You Fight Invasive Species

CBC | Posted 03.26.2013 | Canada British Columbia

The B.C. Ministry of Transportation has a new weapon in its fight against invasive plant species — goats. The province is piloting two p...

B.C.'s 'Taliban Gold' Scam

CBC | Posted 03.26.2013 | Canada British Columbia

Police in B.C.'s Interior have issued a public warning about a scam involving fake gold chains, a story about Osama bin Laden and alleged smuggling fr...

Icy Kamloops Rescue Goes Awry

CP | Mike Youds Kamloops Daily News | Posted 03.26.2013 | Canada British Columbia

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - An oldtimers hockey team hit the ice as darkness fell Wednesday, but they weren't chasing a puck.The Old Dogs jumped into action and ...

B.C. Girl Spotted Hours Before Murder

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.19.2013 | Canada British Columbia

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The RCMP have released a surveillance photo taken of a 16-year-old girl just hours before she was murdered in Kamloops, B.C., in hope...

'End Of The World' Party Has 14,000 'Guests'

The Huffington Post B.C. | Posted 12.17.2012 | Canada British Columbia

Kamloops police say they're not worried about a supposed "End of the World" party expected to attract over 14,000 revellers. A party advertised on ...

Kamloops Accident Takes Man's Limb

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.02.2013 | Canada British Columbia

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A 53-year-old man has lost his lower leg after being hit by a minivan outside a mall in Kamloops, B.C.The RCMP say the 68-year-old dr...

Bear Eats Dead Convict

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.26.2013 | Canada British Columbia

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A coroner says a convicted killer whose body became food for a bear outside of Kamloops, B.C., last May had committed suicide.The cor...

'Crazy Carpet' Sliding Accident Kills 1

CBC | Posted 01.26.2013 | Canada British Columbia

The B.C. Coroners Service says a Kamloops man died Sunday after a sliding accident at Sun Peaks Ski Resort. Coroner Barb McLintock says th...

Where Cocaine Is No Longer A Phone Call Away

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.19.2012 | Canada British Columbia

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - RCMP have cut the line for affluent drug users in Kamloops, B.C., who were obtaining cocaine by phone order.The Mounties say they've ...

Carbon Tax Fight Pits Rural B.C. vs. Vancouver

Jordan Bateman | Posted 12.10.2012 | Canada British Columbia
Jordan Bateman

It's easy for Lower Mainlanders, blessed with multiple transit lines and mild weather, to suggest ratcheting up the carbon tax. But the tax is receiving a rough ride elsewhere. It seems the further you get away from Vancouver, the more hated the carbon tax becomes.

Kamloops Man Has The Worst Luck Ever

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.04.2012 | Canada British Columbia

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A Kamloops, B.C., man is recovering from what RCMP in that southern Interior city call a bizarre sequence of events, after he was bur...

Kamloops Firefighters Save Woodpecker

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.20.2012 | Canada British Columbia

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Firefighters are often pressed to rescue animals from some strange situations, but a call to a Kamloops, B.C., schoolyard has to be n...

Border Agents Investigating Palestinian Nationals

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.19.2012 | Canada British Columbia

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Canada Border Services officials are travelling to Kamloops, B.C., to speak to four people after a possible security breach at the Ca...

B.C. Highway Crash Kills 3

CBC | Posted 11.15.2012 | Canada British Columbia

Police say two people are lucky to be alive after a single-vehicle rollover crash on B.C.'s Coquihalla Highway that left three others dead. ...

Wildfires In B.C. Interior Force Evacuations Near Clinton

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.21.2012 | Canada British Columbia

VANCOUVER - Emergency officials in British Columbia’s Cariboo region have asked about 40 people to leave their homes because of a wildfire.The Minis...

Former Police Chief Saddened By Son’s Murder Confession

The Huffington Post Canada | Seema Dhawan | Posted 08.18.2012 | Canada Alberta

Profound suffering and pain is what greeted the family of Mark Lindsay after they heard the Alberta man had confessed in B.C. court to killing his ex-...

Christy Clark Makes Huge Pledge To B.C. Hospital

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada British Columbia

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Premier Christy Clark has made the latest in a series of hospital redevelopment announcements, this one involving Royal Inland Hospit...

Gas Prices To Jump Overnight

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 08.26.2012 | Canada Business

A gas price watcher is warning that pump prices will rise significantly overnight, up to three cents a litre in parts of the country.Dan McTeague's we...

Bear Pulls Corpse From Car, Buries It In Woods

CBC | Posted 07.31.2012 | Canada

RCMP in Kamloops, B.C., have recovered the corpse of a man that was pulled from a car by a bear and stashed nearby in the woods. ...

Woman Says Hostage-Taker Tormented Her For Hours

CP | James Peters and Sandy Heimlich-Hall, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.22.2012 | Canada

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A woman taken hostage in her Kamloops, B.C., home last week says a man who died there in an explosion and blaze tormented her for hou...

YouTube Student Fight Ends In Suspensions

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.29.2012 | Canada

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Two students have been suspended and more students may face discipline after a schoolyard fight in Kamloops, B.C., was posted on YouT...

After Losing His Wife And Becoming A Single Dad, B.C. Man Wins Lottery

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.18.2012 | Canada

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A struggling single father in Kamloops, B.C., has gone from tragedy to triumph with a $500,000 lottery win.Forty-seven-year-old Richa...

Missing BC Seniors Disappeared On Way Home

CBC | Posted 11.23.2011 | Canada

An elderly B.C. couple who was the subject of an RCMP missing persons bulletin have been spotted by an alert driver, said police. Police ...