Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Crash closes Coquihalla near Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - UPDATE: Kamloops RCMP, and the coroners service are investigating a fatal collision last night which had shut down the Coquihalla highway. Sgt. Thomas Dimopoulos says around 4 p.m yesterday...
Dylana Kneeshaw Jul 05, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
More than $300,000 in stolen property seized by Chase RCMP
CHASE, B.C. - A cache of firearms and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stolen property has been seized by RCMP in Chase, but no charges have been laid.Police say in a news release that two se...
Dylana Kneeshaw Jul 05, 2019 Image Credit: BC RCMP
VIDEO: Y Dream Home winners tour their new house
KAMLOOPS - The winners of the 2019 Y Dream Home visited their brand new home in Tobiano Thursday afternoon. It's the first home Manmeet Sra and Simranjot Kaur have ever owned, and it only cost them $1...
Dylana Kneeshaw Jul 05, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Jill Sperling
Unemployment low in Thompson-Okanagan, much of B.C.
KAMLOOPS - The doom and gloom in the B.C. Interior forest sector has yet to have an impact on employment statistics.According to June totals from Statistics Canada, unemployment was 4.9 per cent in th...
Jul 05, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
Endangered owls burrow into grasslands of Upper Nicola Band
KAMLOOPS - Five burrowing owls were brought to the Upper Nicola Band reserve today to begin their new lives in the wild. The endangered owls have limited spots to live, as grasslands are commonly deve...
Jul 04, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Typical June rains show up two weeks late to southern B.C.
KAMLOOPS - June is typically a wet month in the southern Interior, but Environment Canada says some of the precipitation we missed out on last month is just late to the party."We had a fairly dry June...
Jul 04, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
RIH tower foundation permit pushes June toward record territory for building sector
KAMLOOPS - A big month of June has the City of Kamloops nearing $150 million in building permits issued at the halfway point in 2019.Builders took out $50.5 million in permits last month. Building and...
Dylana Kneeshaw Jul 04, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Canada Day stabbing suspect charged with aggravated assault
KAMLOOPS - The suspect in a Canada Day stabbing in downtown Kamloops has been charged with aggravated assault. 31-year-old Patrick Rejean Paul-Prescott was formally charged Wednesday (July 3). A 54-ye...
Dylana Kneeshaw Jul 04, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Full list of Kamloops Y Dream Home Lottery winners
KAMLOOPS - It wasn't just the custom home in Tobiano and a 50/50 prize of nearly $100,000 handed out at the Y Dream Home Lottery draw on Wednesday,In total, there were more than 600 winners of other p...
Dylana Kneeshaw Jul 04, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Take a trip through time as World War II planes star at Kamloops Airport
KAMLOOPS - A pair of World War II planes are at the Kamloops Airport all this week, and the reception to the vintage aircraft has been significant. More than 400 people showed up to see the planes on ...
Dylana Kneeshaw Jul 03, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
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