City Hall
After second year of missed housing targets, Kamloops council to pen exasperated letter to province
KAMLOOPS - City of Kamloops staff presented a report on provincial housing targets at the regular council meeting Tuesday afternoon (Nov. 4). This is the second year in a row the city is below the housing targets. However, Kamloops council believes the targets set by the province are not realistic.The City of Kamloops ...
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OB-GYN UPDATE
Interior Health touts recruitment, retention progress on RIH OB-GYN departures
KAMLOOPS - Several weeks ago, Royal Inland was facing a mass exodus in the hospital's OB-GYN department, with all seven of those doctors resigning their in-hospital privileges. However, Interior Health says some progress has been made in preventing a gap in obstetrics care. Obstetrics and gynecology care has been top o...
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Kamloops and Area
ON THE GRIDIRON
South Kamloops Titans take issue with seeding, aim for upset in provincial high school football playoffs
KAMLOOPS - Gavin Smith and his South Kamloops Titans are taking issue with their seeding in the AA B.C. School Sports Football Championship playoffs, pegged seventh among eight teams in the bracket. "This whole season, we've been kind of doubted," said Smith, a Grade 12 defensive end and fullback. "The p...
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TRAFFIC DETOURS
Tranquille Road set to re-open with road work pausing over winter
KAMLOOPS - Traffic through Brocklehurst is expected to become a lot smoother over the next three months. Construction crews are working to get as much done as they can on Tranquille Road before paving it over for the winter and tearing up the remaining section of road in the spring. It means drivers - and Brock neighbo...
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Break and Enter
Truck smashed through storefront in early-morning break-and-enter: Kamloops RCMP
KAMLOOPS - RCMP are looking for information about a vehicle that was used in a break-in near Aberdeen Mall early Wednesday morning (Nov. 5).In a news release, spokesperson Cpl. Dana Napier says just before 2:00 a.m. police were told of a vehicle that backed through the front door of a business in the 1300-block of Hill...
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Drug Alert
Interior Health warns Kamloops users of contaminated meth
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health is warning Kamloops residents about crystal meth sold on the street that contains a powerful opioid.In an alert distributed Wednesday (Nov. 5), IH says the substance is sold as 'side', meth, crystal meth or methamphetamine. Tests on the substance have found while it contains methamphetamine a...
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Featured Content
Kamloops & District Chamber of Commerce
39th Annual Business Excellence Awards
Watch the replay of the 2025 Business Excellence Awards livestream hosted on CFJC Today. Congratulations to all finalists and winners from all of us at Pattison Media Ltd.To get in touch with the Kamloops & District Chamber of Commerce, go to KamloopsChamber.ca
Oct 24, 2025
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Hot Nite in the City
Hot Nite Overdrive
Check out the glitz of Hot Nite in the City, showing you not just the coolest cars, but the people that drive them. With driving interviews of the most interesting folks at Kamloops' premier automotive show, this is a program for the biggest petrol heads, and the cursory car curious.
Sep 26, 2025
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Art of Gardening
Art of Gardening - Trouble with plants left in original containers
With so many people living in apartments and condos these days, container planting is the choice for many urban gardeners. But as Maury Hik from Art Knapp Home and Garden explains, you need to be aware of problems arising from plants left in their original containers!
Sep 11, 2025
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British Columbia
B.C. ostriches' fate in hands of Supreme Court, with cull decision imminent
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada is set to release its decision on whether to hear a B.C. ostrich farm's final appeal to save its flock, more than 10 months after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered a cull amid an avian flu outbreak last De...
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Nearly 13,000 litres of aviation fuel spilled beside B.C. lake after derailment
KAMLOOPS - British Columbia's Environment Ministry estimates that almost 13,000 litres of aviation fuel was spilled in a train derailment on the banks of Kamloops Lake over the weekend. Canadian Pacific Kansas City said on Sunday that about 17 rail ca...
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CFIA manual describes sitting on ostriches to inject lethal drug as cull ruling nears
OTTAWA - A Canadian Food Inspection Agency document on culling birds describes how ostriches should be killed, by methods that can include breaking their necks, lethal injection, gassing or shooting. While the CFIA has repeatedly said it will not discu...
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Local Sports
ON THE GRIDIRON
South Kamloops Titans take issue with seeding, aim for upset in provincial high school football playoffs
KAMLOOPS - Gavin Smith and his South Kamloops Titans are taking issue with their seeding in the AA B.C. School Sports Football Championship playoffs, pegged seventh among eight teams in the bracket. "This whole season, we've been kind of doubted," said Smith, a Grade 12 defensive end and fullback. "The p...
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Blazers 8 Chiefs 2
Blazers score early and often, blow out Chiefs 8-2
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers' game Tuesday (Nov. 4) in Spokane was over almost as early as it began. The Blazers concluded a three-game U.S. road trip with an 8-2 win over the Spokane Chiefs. Kamloops scored three goals in a 2:47 stretch early in the first period. The Blazers exited the first with a 5-0 lead. The Ch...
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CANADA WEST
'They slept on us': WolfPack men post historic wins over UBC, finding motivation in coaches' poll
KAMLOOPS - Tommy Olsen had known only defeat in games against the UBC Thunderbirds - seven losses over four years, a few of them lopsided. "It was just nice to go in there and get two huge wins and make program history," said Olsen, a fifth-year TRU WolfPack forward from Surrey. TRU earned its first sweep ove...
Nov 05, 2025
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Canada
In the news today: US still views Canada positively, Harry to meet Toronto veterans
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Americans still view Canada positively: Poll Most Americans - including Republicans - continue to view Canada positively in economic and trade matters even as U.S...
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From flu outbreak to 'Ostrichfest' to high court, how B.C. ostrich cull saga unfolded
EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C., has spent more than 10 months opposing a cull order from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that would result in the deaths of hundreds of its birds. The Supreme Court of...
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B.C. ostriches' fate in hands of Supreme Court, with cull decision imminent
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada is set to release its decision on whether to hear a B.C. ostrich farm's final appeal to save its flock, more than 10 months after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered a cull amid an avian flu outbreak last De...
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World
Israel identifies latest hostage remains returned by Hamas from Gaza as Tanzanian student
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli authorities confirmed Thursday that the remains of a hostage returned the previous day from Gaza are of a Tanzanian agricultural student in Israel who was killed on Oct. 7, 2023 in the Hamas-led attack that start...
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Attackers board ship off the coast of Somalia after firing rocket-propelled grenades
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Attackers firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades boarded a ship off the coast of Somalia on Thursday, British officials said, likely the latest attack by resurgent Somali pirates operating in...
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Philippines declares a state of emergency after Typhoon Kalmaegi left at least 114 people dead
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared a state of emergency on Thursday after Typhoon Kalmaegi left at least 114 people dead and hundreds missing in central provinces in the deadliest natural disast...
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