by KCU | Oct 24, 2025 | City Hall
People are exhausted. They don’t know who or what to believe, and they’re done watching local officials and city administration play by a different set of rules. Over the last three years, trust in City Hall, in leadership, and even in each other has eroded in...
by KCU | Oct 18, 2025 | AAP, City Hall, RCMP Building
The new RCMP building price tag has now risen to $169.8 million — with taxpayers responsible for at least $142 million. Before residents sign off on more debt, maybe we should first see the design features and timeline that are actually required by the contract. Read...
by KCU | Sep 19, 2025 | City Hall
What Kamloops Taxpayers Should Know About BC’s Deficit and Local Borrowing Kamloops is planning major investments while BC faces a record-breaking $11.6 billion deficit and revised population forecasts that challenge the city’s long-term growth assumptions. Provincial...
by KCU | Sep 13, 2025 | City Hall
Interior Health is cutting 91 administrative positions after a financial review—sending the message that public institutions must tighten up, prioritize front-line services, and trim bureaucracy. By contrast, since October 2020, the City of Kamloops has quietly added...
by KCU | Aug 15, 2025 | City Hall
𝐀 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬: In an article from April 2024, former Mayor Mel Rothenburger pointed out one omission in the City’s citizen satisfaction survey: it didn’t ask how well City Council was doing. To address that, he created 10 questions with...
by KCU | Aug 13, 2025 | City Hall
At this week’s council meeting, Mayor Hamer-Jackson asked MP Frank Caputo directly about federal funding for Kamloops’ major upcoming projects—including Build Kamloops and the new RCMP facility, which together total nearly $500 million dollars. Caputo’s response was...