Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Stake Lake ski trails reopening with limited terrain after 6-week closure
KAMLOOPS - (UPDATE Feb. 27): The Overlander Ski Club will be opening the Stake Lake ski trails this weekend, but they caution there will be limited terrain available.The ski and snowshoe trails south ...
Feb 26, 2026 (Image Credit: Overlander Ski Club)
B.C. minimum wage to increase by 40 cents to $18.25 on June 1
VICTORIA - Some of the province's lowest-paid workers will be getting another 40-cent increase on June 1 when B.C.'s minimum wage goes up in an effort to keep pace with inflation.The B.C. government s...
Feb 26, 2026 (Image Credit: Bayne Stanley/The Canadian Press)
TRU Day of Giving hopes to raise $100,000 for students
KAMLOOPS - Thursday (Feb 26) is Thompson Rivers University's annual day of giving with donations being accepted until midnight. Last year, TRU was able to set a high bar as it was able to raise just s...
Feb 26, 2026 TRU Day of Giving 2026 (Image Credit: Kent Simmonds/CFJC Today)
Police identify man found dead in Merritt home, say criminality is involved
MERRITT, B.C. - A 63-year-old man was found dead at a home in Merritt last week. In an update distributed Thursday (Feb. 26), BC RCMP's Southeast District Major Crime Unit (SED MCU) identifies the vic...
Feb 26, 2026 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Cranbrook RCMP operation in Kamloops puts OLPH and RIH on hold-and-secure
KAMLOOPS - Police placed Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) and a North Shore school in separate hold-and-secure protocols as they arrested a suspect with outstanding warrants earlier this week. A notable po...
Feb 26, 2026 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Woman killed in crash on Highway 97A south of Sicamous
SICAMOUS, B.C. - A 22-year-old woman from Salmon Arm was killed in a two-vehicle collision south of Sicamous Wednesday (Feb. 25). Sicamous RCMP say officers responded to the 8800-block of Highway 97A ...
Feb 26, 2026 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Driver clocked going 56 km/h over the speed limit in Merritt
MERRITT, B.C. - Double the speed, double the trouble. Merritt RCMP say a vehicle was caught speeding at 106 km/h down Voght Street past the local police detachment on Monday (Feb. 23). The posted spee...
Feb 26, 2026 (Image Credit: Merritt RCMP)
Gusts of up to 80 km/h expected on Coquihalla from Kamloops to Merritt, Okanagan Connector
KAMLOOPS - Drivers are being warned of challenging conditions on a pair of mountain highways in the Kamloops area. In a special weather statement online, Environment Canada says wind gusts of up to 80...
Feb 26, 2026 Highway 5 about 30 kilometres south of Kamloops, looking south, at around 6:00 a.m. Thursday. (Image Credit: DriveBC)
Students at A.E. Perry Elementary show kindness for annual Pink Shirt Day
KAMLOOPS - The last Wednesday of February marks Pink Shirt Day for students across Canada. The day started in 2007 when two students from a Nova Scotia school bought 50 pink t-shirts after their frien...
Feb 25, 2026 A crowd of A.E. Perry Elementary Students gathered at the school assembly for Pink Shirt Day. (Image Credit: Curtis Goodrum / CFJC Today)
Kamloops-Thompson School District looking toward pre-fab additions to help ease capacity stress
KAMLOOPS - School District 73 has a long list of needed capital projects which begins with a Batchelor Heights elementary school, includes a new secondary school in Aberdeen, along with a host of repl...
Feb 25, 2026 Sa-Hali Secondary (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
