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🏛️ City Hall

Kamloops now has 419 people without a home, and council is done waiting for Victoria. The 2025 Point-in-Time count showed a ballooning homeless population, and councillors unloaded on the province Tuesday for dragging its feet on a sobering centre and day space. The city has been asking for years. The province keeps not delivering. (CFJC Today)

The city dropped its Spring/Summer Activity Guide today. Notable: expanded swim lesson schedules, so if you've been trying to get kids into the pool, registration opens now. (City of Kamloops)

🚨 Safety

A man in his mid-50s was stabbed Tuesday after stepping in to break up a fight between neighbours. It happened on Parkcrest Avenue in Brocklehurst around 5 p.m. The victim heard a disturbance, tried to help, and got a machete for his trouble. A 27-year-old barricaded himself in a trailer before surrendering to police. The Good Samaritan is recovering. (Radio NL)

📰 News

School District 73 is running out of room. A new Batchelor Heights elementary and a new secondary school top the capital wish list, but those take years. In the meantime, the district is eyeing prefab additions to ease the crunch. (CFJC Today)

Coeur Mining's CEO says the long-term potential at New Afton is strong, even with a US$7B acquisition under federal review. The company is bullish on the Kamloops-area mine's future. Whether Ottawa waves the deal through remains the open question. (Castanet)

The WolfPack women's volleyball team hosts their first-ever home playoff match Saturday. They're playing the reigning national champions, Trinity Western. Head coach Chad Falk called it a "slobberknocker." The program has never been here before. (CFJC Today)

TRU is staging The Laramie Project this week, and the timing isn't subtle. The play revisits the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, the gay university student beaten and left to die in Wyoming. TRU's gender and sexual diversity manager explicitly tied it to "the recent murder of a gay man in Kamloops." The show runs tonight through March 7 at Old Main. Tickets are $20. (Castanet)

📅 Events

Lift Every Voice — Fri Feb 28. KSO Chorus and the Music School's Children's and Youth Choruses perform together. (Kamloops BC Now)

The Laramie Project — Feb 26 to Mar 7. TRU Actors Workshop Theatre. $20, recommended 14+. (Tickets)

🛣️ Roads

⚠️ Coquihalla Highway: Up to 60 cm of snow expected between Hope and Merritt through Friday. If you're heading to the coast, check conditions before you go. (CFJC Today)

🚫 Barnhartvale Rd (Duck Meadows Bridge): Closed today 7 AM–4 PM. No detour. Emergency access only.

🚧 Hwy 5 (Mt Paul Way): Signal outage today 9 AM–3 PM. Watch for flaggers.

🚧 Shuswap Rd (Sun Rivers to Sienna Ridge): Single-lane alternating Tue Mar 3–Fri Mar 6, 7 AM–5 PM.

⚠️ Hwy 1 (Chase to Kamloops): Watch for falling rocks over 43 km.

(DriveBC)