Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops-Thompson School District eyes upcoming capacity crunch at secondary schools
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops' first new school in more than 20 years is still on budget and on schedule to be completed in the spring ahead of the new school year. Snine will help alleviate the deluge of eleme...
Oct 29, 2025
TRU decision to end visual arts programs upheld in BC Supreme Court judgment
KAMLOOPS - A BC Supreme Court judge has dismissed a suit brought forward by the Thompson Rivers University Faculty Association (TRUFA) over last year's elimination of several of the school's visual ar...
Oct 29, 2025
Woman left seriously injured after motorcycle crash on Highway 97C; police looking for video
KAMLOOPS - Police are looking for witnesses to help figure out what led to a single-motorcycle crash on Highway 97C between Logan Lake and Merritt. According to BC Highway Patrol, a blue Harley Davids...
Oct 29, 2025
Semi-truck rollover closes Highway 5A north of Merritt
UPDATE (6:30 a.m. ): The roadway has been cleared.EARLIER: MERRITT, B.C. - Highway 5A is closed in both directions on the north end of Nicola Lake Wednesday (Oct. 29) morning. DriveBC first reported o...
Oct 29, 2025
Transportation, class plans in place for displaced Westmount Elementary students
KAMLOOPS - School District 73 representatives held a news conference on Tuesday (Oct. 28) afternoon to address the closure of Westmount Elementary School, which was damaged in a fire early Sunday morn...
Oct 28, 2025
SD73 board administration provides update on enrolment numbers, addresses potential for job cuts
KAMLOOPS - School District 73 Board Chair Heather Grieve, Superintendent Mike McKay and Secretary-Treasurer Harold Cull provided an update on student enrolment at a news conference on Tuesday (Oct. 28...
Oct 28, 2025
City committee told Tranquille, Notre Dame are most crime-riddled corridors in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - There are two areas in the city that generate the majority of community service and police responses.At a meeting of the Kamloops council's Safety and Security Select Committee Tuesday (Oct...
Oct 28, 2025
Blazers look to improve on defensive woes after high-scoring weekend
KAMLOOPS - It was an action-packed weekend for the Kamloops Blazers - three games in three nights, with Friday a high point for the team - a 5-4 comeback win in overtime versus the Medicine Hat Tigers...
Oct 28, 2025
Illegal guns, drugs seized from rental vehicle on Tk'emlúps reserve
TK'EMLUPS - Tk'emlps Rural RCMP seized illegal guns and drugs in a bust involving a rental vehicle last week.In a news release, RCMP say frontline officers were working in the 400-block of Paul Lake R...
Oct 28, 2025
Tourism Kamloops unveils trio of potential iconic structures to boost visitor numbers
KAMLOOPS - Tourism Kamloops has identified what it says are three investment-ready concepts for its iconic structure campaign, and its now looking for developers, operators, and capital partners to co...
Oct 28, 2025 AI renderings of three potential iconic structures in Kamloops. (Image Credit: Tourism Kamloops)
