A daily brief for people who live here.
The Kamloops Digest is a free morning email. Five local sections, five minutes, no filler. Written for locals who want to know what's happening in the city without opening eight tabs.
Why this exists
Local news in Kamloops is scattered across Castanet, CFJC, Radio NL, the Chronicle, a dozen Facebook groups, and the city's own website. It's all there. The problem is time. Most people don't have forty-five minutes every morning to assemble a picture of what's going on in the place they live.
The Digest assembles it for them. One email. Council decisions, RCMP reports, events worth showing up to, road closures, weather, and a daily game at the bottom. Bold lead-ins, short paragraphs, links back to every source so you can go deeper when something matters to you.
What you'll read every day
- 📰 News — the stories that actually affect Kamloops, ranked for local relevance
- 🏛️ City Hall — council votes, bylaw changes, development permits, without the 80-page agenda
- 🚨 Safety — RCMP reports, community alerts, court updates worth knowing about
- 📅 Events — what's on this week that locals actually show up to
- 🛣️ Roads & Weather — DriveBC closures, Environment Canada forecast, AQHI, sunrise and sunset
- 🎮 Daily Game — a small palate cleanser at the end
How it's made
Every morning, a set of scripts pulls the day's local stories and data from public sources. I review the pool, pick what matters, and write each blurb myself. Large language models help me summarize and draft; I read every sentence before it goes out, check every fact against the linked source, and rewrite when it sounds like a robot wrote it.
Two things run before every send: a verifier that checks names, dates, dollar amounts, and quoted text against the original reporting, and a gate that blocks words like "today" or "tonight" (the issue publishes the morning after I write it, so relative time is a trap). It's not perfect. If something's wrong, email me — tips@kamloopsdigest.ca.
Who's behind it
I'm Isaac Audet. I live in Kamloops. I built the Digest because I wanted it to exist and nobody else was making it. I've worked on other community and software projects over the years, and the tooling for this one got good enough that a small daily operation is actually viable.
The Digest is self-funded. There's no parent company and no venture capital. Eventually I want it to be paid for by modest local sponsorships (bottom of most issues, clearly labeled) so the free daily email can keep running. If your Kamloops business wants to be part of that, here's the page.
Corrections and tips
Corrections are posted in the next day's issue, dated. Tips, story suggestions, kind words, and disagreement all go to tips@kamloopsdigest.ca. I read everything.