Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Diversity of visitors helping Kamloops grow tourism numbers
KAMLOOPS - Tourism Kamloops is boasting yet another increase in the number of people choosing the Tournament Capital to take their holidays, the third year in a row it's seen growth. It's not only ath...
May 29, 2019 Tourism Kamloops says 1.85 million people visited the city in 2018 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Police looking for man who may have jumped from Overlanders Bridge
KAMLOOPS - A search of the river last night by police and fire crews has failed to turn up any sign of a possible person jumping off the Overlanders Bridge. In a news release, Staff Sergeant Michel Gr...
May 29, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
A Way Home Kamloops notes youth homelessness on the rise
KAMLOOPS - The executive director of A Way Home Kamloops, the local non-profit organization that helps provide homeless youth with shelter, says there is a growing need for housing. Katherine McParlan...
May 28, 2019 Executive director of A Way Home Kamloops Katherine McParland says a 2018 survey revealed 136 homeless youth in Kamloops (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Mock carbon monoxide leak tests response of emergency crews in Clearwater
KAMLOOPS - Within minutes of the alarm sounding at Clearwater Secondary School, firefighters begin to arrive on scene. It isn't a real emergency, but crews have been instructed to treat it as one. "Th...
May 28, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Jill Sperling
Kelson Group announces to new buildings to be developed at TRU
KAMLOOPS - More than 80 housing units will help fill the gap in Kamloops's rental market. The Kelson Group purchased two lots near Thompson Rivers University, and will be developing two buildings as p...
May 28, 2019 Image Credit: The Kelson Group
City, CUPE employees reach five-year contract
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops and its CUPE-represented employees have reached an agreement on a new five-year contract.In a release, the City says the deal includes a 2.5 per cent wage increase in i...
May 28, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Suspect arrested after flight from police injures Kamloops Mountie
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops RCMP officer was injured Sunday when his police cruiser was rammed by a man in a stolen vehicle.According to a news release from RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Jodi Shelkie, a Jeep Grand...
May 28, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Adam Donnelly
Police release more information into Kamloops home invasion
KAMLOOPS - Police in Kamloops are urging the public to come forward with information about a home invasion.Kamloops RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Jodi Shelkie says just before 4:00 a.m. Sunday (May 26) offic...
May 28, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops celebrates Public Works Week with Civic Operations open house
KAMLOOPS - Every day in our city, hundreds of people go about their jobs in the Civic Operations department. It may be street sweeping, or snow clearing, or mowing the sports fields we play on, but th...
May 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops firefighters shine in FireFit Regional competition
KAMLOOPS - Hundreds of the fittest firefighters were in the city over the weekend. That's because Kamloops Fire Rescue was the host department for the 2019 Southern BC Regional Firefit competition, wh...
May 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
