Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
School's out for Kamloops-Thompson students
KAMLOOPS - With their last classes finishing today, elementary students in School District 73 have started to enjoy their summer vacation. For many, the next year means a new classroom, and for Grade ...
Jun 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Jill Sperling
B.C cattle industry expecting minimal impact from China's meat import ban
KAMLOOPS - After discovering traces of a banned substance (ractopamine) on a pork shipment earlier this month, China has halted accepting Canadian meat products. The BC Cattlemen's Association General...
Jun 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops mayor wants answers for cannabis revenue sharing
KAMLOOPS - In the first five and a half months of cannabis legalization in Canada, Ottawa and the provinces made $186 million from taxes on cannabis.Yet municipalities haven't seen any of that revenue...
Jun 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
VIDEO: Kamloops RCMP searching for stolen Porsche
KAMLOOPS - Police in the city are asking for the public's help in finding a stolen vehicle. On June 26 between 4:30 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. a 1985 Porsche 911 was stolen from a home in Rayleigh, Kamloops R...
Jun 27, 2019 Image Credit: RCMP Handout
Human remains discovered during West Victoria Street construction
KAMLOOPS - Tk'emlups te Secwepemc and the City of Kamloops are working together after the discovery of human remains at the site of the Victoria Street West Improvements Project. The city says in a ne...
Jun 27, 2019 A file photo of construction on the Victoria Street West improvements project. This does not indicate the exact location where ancestral remains were found on June 26, 2019. (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Full maternity services return to Williams Lake hospital July 1
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Canada Day will bring a cause for added celebration for expectant mothers in the Cariboo. Interior Health says full in-patient maternity services will return to Cariboo Memorial ...
Jun 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Man in custody after heavy police presence in Brocklehurst
KAMLOOPS - A wanted man has been captured after a heavy police presence in the Brocklehurst neighbourhood this morning (June 27).Kamloops RCMP say in a news release that just before 7:00 a.m., an offi...
Jun 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops councillor says new climate targets 'ambitious,' attainable for this council
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops city council is joining the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and keep temperature rise to 1.5C. Councillor Arjun Singh brought the motion forward at Tuesday's counc...
Jun 26, 2019 Kamloops city council has committed to setting a goal of reducing greenhouse gases to meet global standards (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Campfire safety top of mind ahead of long weekend festivities
KAMLOOPS - With 91 wildfires in the Kamloops Fire Centre since April 1, the BC Wildfire Service is reminding people to be careful this Canada Day long weekend. Kamloops Fire Centre Information Officer...
Jun 26, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
UBCM President Singh says executive to meet next month to decide on China controversy
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops city councillor and UBCM President Arjun Singh can see the China controversy from both sides, but he says it's a good debate to be having. "China's our second-biggest trading partn...
Jun 26, 2019 UBCM President and Kamloops city councillor Arjun Singh says the executive is set to meet in mid-July to discuss China's involvement in the UBCM convention (Image Credit: Municipal World))
