Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
YKA Hot Chocolate Festival buttressing non-profit, bolstering local cafes, restaurants
KAMLOOPS - Sumptuous servings of cocoa are warming cockles, padding non-profit coffers and piquing interest in Kamloops cafes and restaurants. The third annual YKA Hot Chocolate Festival is running th...
Feb 05, 2026 Kamloops Artizans' Bazaar hot chocolate (Image Credit: CFJC Today/Anthony Corea)
TRFO officially shutters but no gaps in maternity care for foreseeable future: RIH
KAMLOOPS - Back in December, Interior Health announced the hiring of two new OB-GYNs to join the staff at Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) in Kamloops. The health authority at that time announced a new ser...
Feb 05, 2026 File Photo (Image Credit: Global)
Traffic stop leads to arrest of man impersonating police officer: Kamloops RCMP
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say some proactive police work led to the arrest of a man in his 40s who was allegedly impersonating a police officer.Police say members of the Kamloops RCMP Crime Reduction U...
Feb 05, 2026 Red and blue lights on the white GMC truck driven by a man who Kamloops RCMP say was impersonating a police officer. (Image Credit: Kamloops RCMP)
Alberta hockey players wear, share stickers memorializing car crash casualties
CALGARY - A group of young hockey players north of Calgary will be donning and distributing stickers made in memory of three junior hockey players who died in an Alberta highway crash earlier this wee...
Feb 05, 2026
B.C.'s warm February rewrites weather records
VANCOUVER - It may be February, but Doug Pope says rescue season in the mountains that overlook Vancouver is looking more like spring. North Shore Rescue's search manager said Thursday that the organi...
Feb 05, 2026
Rentals now offered as city says ongoing warming trend won't impact Riverside outdoor rink
KAMLOOPS - The Riverside Outdoor Skate Rink has been very busy since it opened back in January, and the City of Kamloops says the ongoing warming trend is not expected to be an issue for the refrigera...
Feb 05, 2026 (Image Credit: Curtis Goodrum / CFJC Today)
UPDATE: Fog advisory lifted across North Thompson and 100 Mile regions
CLEARWATER, B.C. - (UPDATE 1:30 p.m.): Environment Canada has lifted fog advisories that were in effect for the North Thompson and 100 Mile regions. A fog advisory that was in place for the Trans-Cana...
Feb 05, 2026 Highway 97 about eight kilometres north of Clinton just before Big Bar rest area, looking north, at around 6:10 a.m. Thursday. (Image Credit: DriveBC)
White Cane Week brings vision problems into view for Kamloops residents
KAMLOOPS - It's White Cane Week and the Kamloops White Cane Club, which has been running for more than 30 years, commemorates the occasion by spreading awareness about vision impairment. White Cane We...
Feb 04, 2026 Vern Short (Image Credit: Curtis Goodrum / CFJC Today)
Probe exonerates Kamloops councillor for bullying statement; mayor re-alleges investigator bias
KAMLOOPS - A code of conflict complaint filed by Kamloops mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson against Councilor Dale Bass has been dismissed following an investigation by Reece Harding. To date, city taxpayers h...
Feb 04, 2026 Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Mounties pull arsenal from North Shore home
KAMLOOPS - RCMP say they seized a cache of nearly 20 guns when they stormed a Kamloops North Shore home Tuesday (Feb. 3). In a news release, Sgt. Jason Pole of the detachment's Crime Reduction Unit sa...
Feb 04, 2026 (Image Credit: Contributed / Kamloops RCMP)
