Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
One injured in semi rollover north of Barriere
KAMLOOPS - UPDATE: One person has been injured after a semi rollover north of Barriere. According to B.C. Emergency Health Services, ambulance paramedics were called to a semi rollover along the Yello...
Nov 20, 2019 Image Credit: DriveBC
A Way Home Kamloops looking for community support for Campout event
KAMLOOPS - There's less than a month until A Way Home Kamloops's Campout to End Youth Homelessness. The event challenges members of the community to spend a night living outside. That experience gives...
Nov 19, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
WCT bringing the joy of The Sound of Music to the stage
KAMLOOPS - The hills will come alive in Kamloops later this month when Western Canada Theatre presents The Sound of Music. The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic is set in Austria in the 1930s, amid the ...
Nov 19, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Local Teamsters division among voices calling for safer working conditions
KAMLOOPS - About 3,200 members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have gone on strike, including at the CN Railyard here in Kamloops. Around 130 members of the local division have been rotating t...
Nov 19, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Date set for Kamloops performing arts centre referendum
KAMLOOPS - This afternoon, the city council made it official - the citizens of Kamloops will decide if the city will borrow $45 million to help fund the proposed Centre for the Performing Arts on Apri...
Nov 19, 2019 Image Credit: File Photo
13-year-old boy injured after hit-and-run in downtown Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Police in Kamloops are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect and their vehicle after a hit-and-run downtown Tuesday afternoon (Nov. 19).Kamloops RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Jodi ...
Nov 19, 2019 Image Credit: Kamloops RCMP
Cirque du Soleil's 'Axel' to take over Kamloops Sandman Centre next June
KAMLOOPS - Cirque du Soleil will make a return visit to Kamloops next year.The world-renowned acrobatic-theatre company has announced its production Axel will take over Sandman Centre, June 18-21, 202...
Nov 19, 2019 Image Credit: Cirque du Soleil
University teachers organization issues scathing report after investigating academic freedom at TRU
KAMLOOPS - The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has issued a damning report that accuses Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops of breaching academic freedom in its handling of a pro...
Nov 19, 2019 Dr. Derek Pyne (Image Credit: Derek Pyne)
Kamloops RCMP to offer online reporting for certain crimes
KAMLOOPS - For all the different tasks you can now complete online, add another one to the list.Kamloops RCMP say, starting Wednesday (Nov. 20), local residents will be able to report certain crimes o...
Nov 19, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Christmas Amalgamated open for another holiday season to bring joy to Kamloops families
KAMLOOPS - Christmas is still over a month away, but a well-known local organization is back to bring some holiday cheer to the less fortunate in Kamloops. Christmas Amalgamated has been open for a we...
Nov 18, 2019 Sally Whitson has been keeping Christmas Amalgamated going since the 1970s (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
