Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops real estate activity slows to a crawl to start 2026
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops real estate market got off to a slow start in 2026. New totals released by the Association of Interior Realtors of BC (AIR) show 90 residential unit sales last month - down abo...
Feb 04, 2026 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Kamloops-Shuswap-Central Rockies MP Mel Arnold believes party chose right in Calgary
OTTAWA - The Canadian Conservative Party Conference was held in Calgary last week and drew nationwide attention, with a critical vote held for the parliament's official opposition leader. Conservative...
Feb 04, 2026 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Kamloops council defeats mayor's push to prevent city from hiring councillors' family members
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson didn't find any success in advancing his pair of notices of motion during Tuesday's (Feb. 3) regular council meeting. Attending virtually via Zoom, Hamer-J...
Feb 04, 2026 File photo. (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Blazers blow out Royals 11-1 in first of two games in Victoria
KAMLOOPS - It was smooth sailing for the Kamloops Blazers during their first stop of a five-game road trip. After surrendering the first goal of Tuesday's (Feb. 3) game against the Victoria Royals sho...
Feb 04, 2026 (Image Credit: Victoria Royals)
Kamloops hockey community in mourning: 'Hug your parents and tell your buddies you love them'
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Storm forward Luca D'Amore sent his buddy Cam Casorso a text after hearing Southern Alberta Mustangs teammates were involved in a highway crash on Monday (Feb. 2) near Stavely, Alt...
Feb 03, 2026 (Image Credit: Contributed / Global)
Former Kamloops lawyer convicted of first-degree murder in client's 2022 death
KAMLOOPS - Mohd Abdullah's death was brutal and violent, the result of 10 stab wounds to his neck and chest. The TRU lecturer died on March 11, 2022 in the Victoria Street office of his lawyer, Rogeli...
Feb 03, 2026 Butch Bagabuyo (left), Mohd Abdullah (Image Credit: Butch Bagabuyo / Facebook)
'Hitting everybody so hard': Alberta town remembers 3 hockey players killed in crash
STAVELY - Tributes across Canada and the hockey community have embraced a small Alberta town, where three junior hockey players died in a car crash trying to cross a divided highway to get to morning ...
Feb 03, 2026
$2.5 million lottery ticket sold in Lillooet
LILLOOET, B.C. - A lottery player who purchased a ticket in Lillooet is $2.5 million richer. According to PlayNow, a ticket purchased in Lillooet matched all six numbers of Lotto 6/49's classic draw p...
Feb 03, 2026 (Image Credit: Lotto 6/49)
Renovation work officially underway at North Kamloops Library
KAMLOOPS - Renovations for the North Kamloops Library officially began on Monday (Feb. 2). This is the first and largest phase of construction, mostly focusing on the staff area, programming room, you...
Feb 03, 2026 (Image Credit: Curtis Goodrum / CFJC Today)
Funny, unstoppable, magnetic: 3 Alberta hockey players killed in crash remembered
Three players with the Southern Alberta Mustangs junior hockey team in Stavely, Alta., were killed Monday while heading to practice in the town south of Calgary. RCMP say the small vehicle they were i...
Feb 03, 2026
