Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
UPDATE: Missing cyclist found in Manitoba
REVELSTOKE, B.C. - UPDATE: RCMP say James Toynton has been found in Manitoba.
Oct 06, 2020
Trans Mountain pipes $200k to City of Kamloops for Kenna Cartwright Park impacts
KAMLOOPS - Trans Mountain has told the City of Kamloops it knows its activities are having a big impact on Kenna Cartwright Park users right now.In an update at Kamloops council Tuesday (Oct. 6), spok...
Oct 06, 2020
Serious crash closes Highway 97A near Sicamous
MARA, B.C. - Highway 97A south of Sicamous has been blocked for a large portion of the morning after a crash involving a semi.In an email to CFJC Today, BC RCMP Traffic Services spokesman Cpl. Mike Ha...
Oct 06, 2020
Liberal candidates promise local cancer treatment facility, Foundry Centre for youth
KAMLOOPS - For years, Kamloops residents have had to travel to Kelowna for cancer treatment. If the BC Liberals are elected, Todd Stone and Peter Milobar are promising $5 million for a cancer treatmen...
Oct 06, 2020
SD73 reports record interest in trades programs
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops-Thompson School District says enrolment in several of its Trades and Transitions programs is at record levels.According to a news release posted to the SD73 website, there are ...
Oct 06, 2020
Tk'emlups Kúkpi7 Casimir acclaimed to BC Assembly of First Nations Board of Directors
KAMLOOPS - Tk'emlups te Secwpemc Chief Kkpi7 Rosanne Casimir will be taking her leadership to a provincial level, having been acclaimed to the Board of Directors for the B.C Assembly of First Nations....
Oct 05, 2020
Merritt woman arrested for disrupting Trans Mountain worksite near Coquihalla Summit
MERRITT, B.C. - A Merritt woman has been arrested for disrupting construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion near the Coquihalla Summit.According to an RCMP news release, the confrontation t...
Oct 05, 2020
Camp set up near Mission Flats Road in protest of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project
KAMLOOPS - The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project continues to face resistance from environmentalists and Indigenous groups. One group in particular has set up camp along the Thompson River. Th...
Oct 05, 2020
Registration opens for 2020 Camp Out to End Youth Homelessness
KAMLOOPS - Registration has opened for this year's Camp Out to End Youth Homelessness. Come December, the nighttime fundraising event will look different than in year's past. A Way Home Kamloops hosts...
Oct 05, 2020
Prices keep climbing as Kamloops real estate sector roars back from pandemic slowdown
KAMLOOPS - The local real estate sector is roaring back after a COVID-19-related slowdown earlier in the year.New figures from the Kamloops and District Real Estate Association (KADREA) show 332 total...
Oct 05, 2020
