First Pro Hockey Points
Blazers' Finnie, Brunicke record first pro hockey points in AHL
KAMLOOPS - A pair of Kamloops Blazers have recorded their first points in professional hockey, not long after the 2024-25 WHL season came to an end.Blazers captain Emmitt Finnie picked up his first career American Hockey League (AHL) point as the Grand Rapids Griffins beat the Rockford IceHogs 8-3 Friday (April 4) nigh...
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Lillooet ER Woes
Lillooet and area residents without emergency room coverage for another 49 hours this weekend
LILLOOET, B.C. - The latest 49-hour of the emergency room in Lillooet took effect at 7:00 a.m. Saturday (April 5) morning.Interior Health says the emergency room at the Lillooet Hospital and Health Centre is not expected to reopen until 7:00 a.m. Monday (April 7). It has once again not provided a reason for this ER clo...
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Kamloops and Area
BEST OF KAMLOOPS
Athletics in Kamloops to be celebrated at annual awards and hall of fame banquet
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Sports Council will present its annual athletic awards on Saturday during a banquet at the Colombo Lodge.Adding to the allure of the event - four inductions to the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame.Kamloops Sports Council executive director Duncan Olthuis spoke to CFJC Today on Friday (April 4).
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CHECK FOR TICKS
With tick season in full swing, TRU expert Higgins talks prevention, Lyme disease, tick paralysis
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops is a hot spot for the Rocky Mountain Wood Tick.Dr. Rob Higgins, co-chair of Thompson Rivers University department of biological sciences, said peak season for ticks has arrived. He spoke to CFJC Today on Friday (April 4).
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Trail Closure
Xget'tem' Trail to be closed this weekend; lengthy rehabilitation project to end next Friday
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops says the Xget'tem' Trail that connects Upper Sahali to the downtown core will be closed this weekend (April 5 and 6) because of unsafe trail conditions. It says while this latest temporary closure is necessary "out of an abundance of caution," crews are still expected fully reo...
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AGREEMENT ELUSIVE
Heidelberg Materials labour dispute ongoing, with workers on strike in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Employees are on strike outside of Heidelberg Materials in the Mount Paul Industrial Park. The ready-mix concrete company has 47 workers across the Interior and Okanagan, including six in Kamloops. CFJC Today spoke to Teamsters Local Union 213 business representative Rob Cook on Friday (April 4) and received...
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Featured Content
Art of Gardening
Art of Gardening - Things You Need To Get Done In Spring
Spring has sprung and the grass is rising - and Maury from Art Knapp Garden Centre and Florist in Kamloops has a whole list of things you need to get going on to get your yards and gardens ready for the growing season!
Apr 02, 2025
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CFJC TV Special
Art of Christmas 2024 with Art Knapp Kamloops
Maury and Ivy Hik from Art Knapp Garden Centre and Florist in Kamloops take a look back at the best holiday features from years past. Presented by CFJC TV and First Choice Hair.
Dec 25, 2024
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Art of Christmas
Art of Christmas - Flowering Seasonal Plants
There are many ways to bring warmth and colour to your home during the holiday season! Maury Hik from Art Knapp Garden Centre and Florist in Kamloops has a few ways for you to do that with seasonal flowering plants.
Nov 28, 2024
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British Columbia
Vancouver voters look to fill two council seats in municipal byelection
VANCOUVER - Voters in Vancouver are heading to the polls today - but not for the federal election that's still weeks away from its conclusion. Vancouverites will instead cast their ballots in the municipal byelection to select two new councillors to fill seats vacated by the Green Party's Adriane Carr and OneCity's Chr...
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Former B.C. teacher, 85, guilty of indecent assaults on his Grade 6 students
NORTH VANCOUVER - A B.C. provincial court judge has found an 85-year-old former elementary school teacher guilty of nine sex-related charges, most involving his former Grade 6 students. There were 12 complainants, all male, who said Brian Moore assaulted them when they were children, ranging in age from seven to 12 yea...
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B.C. touts speed of major housing program to mark one-year anniversary
NORTH VANCOUVER - British Columbia's government celebrated the first anniversary of one of its cornerstone housing programs at the groundbreaking of a 179-unit rental building in North Vancouver, which it says went from concept to construction in 14 months. Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says approximately 1,400 homes ar...
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Local Sports
First Pro Hockey Points
Blazers' Finnie, Brunicke record first pro hockey points in AHL
KAMLOOPS - A pair of Kamloops Blazers have recorded their first points in professional hockey, not long after the 2024-25 WHL season came to an end.Blazers captain Emmitt Finnie picked up his first career American Hockey League (AHL) point as the Grand Rapids Griffins beat the Rockford IceHogs 8-3 Friday (April 4) nigh...
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BEST OF KAMLOOPS
Athletics in Kamloops to be celebrated at annual awards and hall of fame banquet
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Sports Council will present its annual athletic awards on Saturday during a banquet at the Colombo Lodge.Adding to the allure of the event - four inductions to the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame.Kamloops Sports Council executive director Duncan Olthuis spoke to CFJC Today on Friday (April 4).
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U Sports Award
WolfPack athlete Matthew Hamilton wins U SPORTS Community Service award
KAMLOOPS - Graduating TRU WolfPack athlete Matthew Hamilton is the latest recipient of the Dale Iwanoczko award, which is given to a U SPORTS men's volleyball player that excels in the classroom, on the court, and in the community.It's the latest - and final - accolade for Hamilton during his university career after he...
Apr 03, 2025
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Canada
Campaigning across the country, federal leaders pledge family doctors, red tape cuts
Federal party leaders are starting the second full weekend of the federal election campaign at opposite ends of the country. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is in B.C., where he is set to make an announcement on cutting bureaucratic red tape, while NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is in Atlantic Canada, where he promised ...
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Five years without answers for family of Canadian businessman held in Chinese jail
VANCOUVER - Wang Yan vividly recalls the last time she heard her husband's voice, more than five years ago. It was Dec. 13, 2019, and Canadian citizen Li Yonghui had gone to a public square in Shijiazhuang, in China's Hebei province, to exercise as he spoke to his wife in Canada by mobile phone. "Suddenly, the cal...
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'We are not the gods': Fire-torn Jasper prepares for diminished summer tourism season
JASPER, ALTA. - Every summer for 61 years, tourists have piled onto Jasper's SkyTram to see the boomerang-shaped town nestled inside the sprawling Rocky Mountains. It'll happen again this summer, but the view will be different. The red cable cars will skim over thousands of trees poking up from the ground like charred ...
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World
Anthony, Howard, Redeem Team, Bird, Arison, Fowles, Crawford, Donovan, Moore in Hall of Fame class
Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard are going into the Basketball Hall of Fame later this year, not once but twice. And LeBron James and Chris Paul are part of the group that's headed to the Hall as well, even before their playing careers end. Anthony and Howard were announced Saturday as members of the Class of 2025, as...
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Israeli troops deploy to a new corridor across Gaza
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel says troops have deployed to a newly established security corridor across southern Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday announced the new Morag Corridor to pressure the Hamas militant group and suggested it would cut off the southern city of Rafah, which Israel has ordered evacua...
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Senate GOP approves framework for Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts after all-night session
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework, hurling past a hard line of Democratic opposition toward what President Donald Trump calls the "big, beautiful bill" that's central to his a...
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