Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Sun Peaks celebrates Australia Day weekend with sausage sizzle fundraiser for bushfire relief
SUN PEAKS, BC - On January 26th, 1788, the First Fleet of British ships arrived at Port Jackson, New South Wales and claimed the continent of Australia as a British Colony. Two hundred thirty-two year...
Jan 26, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Elevators repaired in RIH Clinical Services Building
KAMLOOPS - As of last night (Jan. 24), the elevators in the Clinical Services Building at Royal Inland Hospital are now back up and running. Jan. 17, an unexpected equipment failure downed the elevato...
Jan 25, 2020 (Image Credit: Chad Harris / CFJC Today)
Rockfall near Overlanders Bridge Friday leads to traffic pattern change
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops is looking into a minor rockfall that took place near the south end of the Overlanders Bridge earlier today.Utility Services Manager Greg Wightman says a geotechnical e...
Jan 24, 2020
Unplug and Play week activities return for Kamloops families
KAMLOOPS - As part of many activities planned during the Interior Savings Unplug and Play Week in Kamloops, ABC Family Literacy Day will kick off the events tomorrow. The reading-focused day is one of...
Jan 24, 2020 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
All-Kamloops design team featured in British Vogue
KAMLOOPS - Members of a Kamloops-based design team are keeping a watchful eye on magazine stands this month, with their latest work published in British Vogue. The photos are part of a feature that Br...
Jan 24, 2020 Delayne Dixon photographs her designs on model Hailey McCarthy for British Vogue (Image Credit: Cassidy Watt)
UPDATE: Trans Canada Highway at Chase reopens after small avalanche
CHASE, B.C. - UPDATE: Drive BC says the highway has reopened. EARLIER: Debris from a small avalanche led to a closure on the Trans Canada near Chase Friday afternoon (Jan. 24). The slide came down nea...
Jan 24, 2020 Image Credit: Contributed / Bobbi-Joe Nicholson
Kindergarten registration in Kamloops-Thompson gets started next week
KAMLOOPS - School District 73 is hoping to avoid lineups next week as registration opens for kindergarteners heading into schools of choice.In a piece posted to its website, the district says registra...
Jan 24, 2020
Fundraiser planned to help Kamloops parents of baby with brain cancer
KAMLOOPS - The community is coming together to support a Kamloops family going through some incredibly difficult circumstances. Frank Antoine and Bonnie Lepine Antoine's baby Riel was only seven month...
Jan 24, 2020 Image Credit: Facebook / Bonnie Lepine Antoine
Group working to rebuild Murray United Church in Merritt inching closer to fundraising goal
KAMLOOPS - Images of the historic Murray United Church in Merritt burning down last January are still etched in people's minds. "The first two weeks after it burned down, it was anger and sadness," sa...
Jan 24, 2020 The Murray United Church group has raised about $115,000 of its $180,000 goal to rebuild the historic church that was set on fire last January (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
City proposes $13.5M facelift for Tournament Capital Centre
KAMLOOPS - City of Kamloops staff will ask council next week to vote on a massive project that would see the Tournament Capital Centre (TCC) completely revamped.In 2017, staff initially predicted a $9...
Jan 24, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
