Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Social agency pledges to push for one-stop-shop youth mental health service in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - An organization in Kamloops is hoping to take the lead in advocating for a Foundry centre here in the city.Valerie Janz is the Chief Operating Officer at Interior Community Services - a ser...
Nov 14, 2019 Image Credit: Interior Community Services
Kamloops crews respond to crash at Columbia and Summit
KAMLOOPS - Emergency crews are currently responding to a crash at a busy Sahali intersection.Two vehicles crashed at Columbia Street and Summit Drive.Ambulance and Kamloops Fire Rescue are responding....
Nov 14, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / James Peters
Province provides City of Kamloops with $1.3 million through grants in lieu
KAMLOOPS - The provincial government has announced that Kamloops is one of 54 municipalities in BC receiving money from annual grants in lieu of property taxes.Each November, the province pays grants ...
Nov 14, 2019 From left: Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian, City Councillor Bill Sarai, City Councillor Sadie Hunter, and BC Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Ravi Kahlon. (Image Credit: CFJC Today / James Peters)
Fire crews attend hog pile fire at Domtar
KAMLOOPS - Domtar crews will spend the better part of Thursday (Nov. 14) ensuring a hog pile fire is out. Kamloops Fire Rescue crews were called to a lot adjacent to Domtar on Mission Flats Road at ab...
James Peters Nov 14, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press file photo
Snow Angels program in need of volunteers
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Snow Angels program is putting out the call for more volunteers following the first snowfall of the season. Newly appointed coordinator Chris Linton says the program received m...
Nov 13, 2019 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Grieving friends and family of hit and run victims fundraising for funeral costs
KAMLOOPS - Friends of Feyisola David Adebowale, Daniel Okocha, and Oluwatosin Kelvin Adeojo - who were killed in a hit and run last weekend - have been working to raise money to properly lay them to r...
Nov 13, 2019 Left to right: Robert Ogunbanwo, and Awele Juwe (Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds)
U-Haul fined $71,000 for hazardous materials found during renovation of its Kamloops building
KAMLOOPS - A moving truck rental company has been fined more than $71,000 after hazardous materials were discovered during renovation work in Kamloops. According to a penalty summary, WorkSafeBC inspe...
Nov 13, 2019 Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Damaged gas line causes brief evacuation, lengthy closure of Valleyview Drive
KAMLOOPS - Valleyview Drive may be shut down overnight after a major gas leak Wednesday (Nov. 13).An excavator working to help install conduits for electrical cables hit the line at about 11:00 a.m.Al...
Nov 13, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Chad Klassen
Car crashes into North Shore deli
KAMLOOPS - A car smashed into a popular Kamloops North Shore meatery Wednesday (Nov. 13).During the 2:00 hour Wednesday afternoon, a late model Subaru went careening into Gary's European Sausage and D...
Nov 13, 2019 Image Credit: Contributed / Sharon Fitzer
UPDATE: Kamloops RCMP locate missing woman
KAMLOOPS - UPDATE: Police in Kamloops have located a woman reported missing Nov. 13. All personal information has been removed from the article. ORIGINAL: Police in Kamloops are searching for a missin...
James Peters Nov 13, 2019
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