Author Archives: James Peters

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue (KFR) has had a busy 24 hours, fighting a pair of landscape fires in the city.On Sunday (Sept. 28) afternoon, multiple crews, including tenders and bush trucks, respond...

KAMLOOPS - Last week, a delegation made up of City of Kamloops councillors and several members of the senior management team travelled to Victoria for the annual convention of the Union of B.C. Munici...

KAMLOOPS - A date has been set for a sentencing hearing in the case of the 2023 crash that killed a TRU volleyball player and seriously injured two others.On November 29, 2023, Colval Abbinett was beh...

KAMLOOPS - The province is partnering with the City of Kamloops to build modular, temporary housing near the Thompson Rivers University campus. In a news release issued Monday afternoon (Sept. 29), Mi...

BLUE RIVER, B.C. - Drivers are told to expect some delays on a stretch of Highway 5 through the North Thompson over the next month. DriveBC says planned construction work on Highway 5 between Thunder ...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue put out a landscape fire near Guerin Creek early Monday (Sept. 29) morning. Witnesses on social media reported the fire upslope from the Victoria Street West and Missio...

BARRIERE, B.C. - The BC Wildfire Service is set to remove the campfire ban across the Kamloops Fire Centre on Monday, Sept. 29, but the District of Barriere will not follow suit just yet. "The Distric...

KAMLOOPS - Witnesses are being sought by the Kamloops RCMP following an assault in the morning hours of Saturday, September 27. "At approximately 5:08 a.m. on September 27, 2025, frontline officers fr...

KAMLOOPS - Residents planning on traveling to the Southern Interior from the Lower Mainland overnight are being asked to plan ahead. DriveBC says the northbound lanes of the Coquihalla Highway between...