Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Indigenous Peoples Day marked by maiden voyage for Brock student-carved canoe
KAMLOOPS - Over the 2018/2019 school year, students at Brock Middle School have been chipping away at a log - eventually carving out a canoe. The course facilitating the dug-out canoe carving gives st...
Jun 21, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Dylana Milobar
SD73 survey finds three-quarters of local graduates plan to pursue post-secondary education
KAMLOOPS - A School District 73 survey of graduating students finds three-quarters plan to pursue a post-secondary education.The 75 per cent total is up 16.5 per cent from 2007, according to a report ...
Jun 21, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Jessup acquitted in 2014 KRCC death
KAMLOOPS - Nathaniel Jessup has been acquitted of the 2014 killing of 20-year-old Dylan Judd inside Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre.B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sheri Donegan said the Crown's circ...
Jun 21, 2019 Image Credit: Facebook / Nathaniel Jessup
Faulty air conditioner spews smoke into Marion Schilling Elementary
KAMLOOPS - Some tense moments at Marion Schilling Elementary School in Valleyview Friday morning as smoke started to fill the building.The school was evacuated and Kamloops Fire Rescue was called just...
Jun 21, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
MLA Stone says NDP government 'kicking the can down the road' by failing to strengthen vaping regulations
KAMLOOPS - The MLA for Kamloops-South Thompson says the NDP government is 'punting' the issue of stronger vaping regulations. In a news release issued Thursday, Health Minister Adrian Dix acknowledged...
Jun 20, 2019 File Photo (Image Credit: Yurenia85 / Dreamstime.com)
Tenth annual Kamloops Walk to End ALS has special meaning for local family
KAMLOOPS - This Saturday will mark the tenth anniversary of the Kamloops Walk to End ALS. Every year, families who have been affected by the progressive disease gather to take part in the fundraiser f...
Jun 20, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops man gets stolen equipment back through Facebook
KAMLOOPS - Police are investigating after the victim of a residential break-in located some of his stolen items through a popular Facebook group. According to an unsealed search warrant, the man and h...
Jun 20, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
VIDEO: Two injured after truck crashes into Dufferin salon
KAMLOOPS - Two people suffered minor injuries after a pickup truck slammed into a Dufferin hair salon Thursday afternoon.Ryan Cail of Kamloops Fire Rescue says the Ford F-150 came into the parking lot...
Jun 20, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Chad Klassen
Logan Lake mayor fears 'temporary' redeployment could spell doom for local RCMP detachment
LOGAN LAKE, B.C. - The mayor of Logan Lake is asking the RCMP for a public meeting in the community after learning of plans to decrease service to the local detachment.RCMP officials spoke to Logan La...
Jun 20, 2019 Logan Lake Mayor Robin Smith (File Photo. Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Slower spring allows for more KSAR training ahead of summer season
KAMLOOPS - A slower spring for call outs and rescues has allowed Kamloops Search and Rescue members to get in more training. Of the 18 searches undertaken so far this year, KSAR's Jenn Stahn says they...
Jun 20, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
