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City hosting second budget session as provisional 2026 tax increase sits at 7.2 per cent
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops will be hosting a second in-person budget information session on Monday (Jan. 26) afternoon where residents will be able to have their say into the current provisional ...
Jan 25, 2026 The first in-person 2026 budget meeting was held on Nov. 19, 2025 at Sandman Centre. (Image Credit: Anthony Corea/CFJC Today)
Carney set to spend much of 2026 travelling the world in search of trade
OTTAWA - Mark Carney has been circling the globe on government aircraft since becoming prime minister - part of his efforts to secure new trade links and investment to double non-U.S. exports in the n...
Jan 25, 2026
What's Really Behind the Pilot Shortage in Canada?
The world's largest pilots' union wants you to rethink Canada's pilot shortage. Industry experts say the demand for business and passenger flights is outpacing the number of new pilots entering the fi...
Jan 24, 2026 Air Canada pilots at an informational picket at Vancouver International Airport in 2024 (Image Credit: Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)
Veterans, sports groups enthusiastic about plan to replace Memorial Arena, Kamloops Curling Club
KAMLOOPS - Veterans groups and a number of local sporting communities in Kamloops are voicing support for an ambitious redevelopment that includes the demolition of Memorial Arena and the Kamloops Cur...
Jan 23, 2026 The interior of the Kamloops Curling Club on Victoria Street downtown. (Image Credit: CFJC Today File)
New curling and racquet sports facility to replace Memorial Arena, Kamloops Curling Club
KAMLOOPS - The next phase of the ambitious Build Kamloops initiative involves a significant amount of demolition along Victoria Street downtown. The City of Kamloops has announced plans to tear down M...
Jan 23, 2026 (Image Credit: CFJC Today File)
Fewer black bears killed in B.C. last year than in last decade: conservation officers
New figures suggest fewer black bears in British Columbia were killed in 2025 than in previous years in the last decade. The Conservation Officer Service says officers dispatched 178 black bears and e...
Jan 23, 2026
TNRD approves use of AAP for borrowing $6.3M for new Kamloops Search and Rescue hall
KAMLOOPS - A joint venture between Kamloops Search and Rescue (KSAR), the City of Kamloops and the Thompson Nicola Regional District could see a new fire hall and Kamloops Search and Rescue base built...
Jan 22, 2026 Rendering of the proposed KSAR and KFR Facility on Devick Road in Rayleigh. (Image Credit: TNRD)
RCMP looking for suspect after theft, assault at Tk'emlups grocery store
TK'EMLUPS - Tkemlps Rural RCMP are asking for help in identifying a suspect who assaulted a security guard after a theft at a grocery store earlier this month Police say a suspect who stole nearly $36...
Jan 22, 2026 (Image Credit: Tk'emlups Rural RCMP)
TRU appoints former Toronto-area deputy provost as new chief academic officer
KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University (TRU) will have a new provost and vice-president academic as of February 1. TRU announced that Dr. Gordon James Binsted will be the university's chief academic of...
Jan 22, 2026 Dr. Gordon James Binsted will serve as TRU's provost and vice-president academic effective Feb. 1, 2026. (Image Credit: UBC Okanagan)
Eby says B.C. will play a key role in new global order described by PM Carney
VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says B.C. will play a "key role" in a new international order charted by Prime Minister Mark Carney in a speech in Davos, Switzerland. Carney told the World Economic Forum...
Jan 21, 2026
