Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Mock-up of Patient Care Tower rooms provide opportunity for staff input
KAMLOOPS - The new Patient Care Tower is taking shape at Royal Inland Hospital. It's due to be completed in 2022 and will have a net gain of 15 beds. Individual rooms are a long way from being finishe...
Dec 06, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Update: Woman involved in dramatic stolen vehicle incident arrested
KAMLOOPS - UPDATE: Kamloops RCMP say a woman wanted after a stolen vehicle incident in Kamloops on Friday (Dec. 6), has now been arrested. In a release, Sgt. Sascha Fesenko says the woman was arrested...
Dec 06, 2019 Image Credit: RCMP Handout
Clinton man who was acquitted in 2014 homicide now charged with first-degree murder
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to a homicide in Williams Lake last year - and just months before, he was acquitted of manslaughter in a different c...
Dec 06, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Nearly $29,000 raised through United Way Homes for the Holidays fundraiser
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Nicola-Cariboo United Way's annual Homes for the Holidays fundraiser has brought in $29,000 for the community.Spokesperson Katie Neustaeter says this year's event featured five...
Dec 06, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Trans Canada closed near Albert Canyon
KAMLOOPS - The Trans Canada highway is closed in both directions near Albert Canyon this morning (Dec 6). Revelstoke RCMP says in a news release that officers were dispatched at roughly 4:30 a.m. toda...
Dec 06, 2019 Image Credit: Drive BC
Young woman taken to hospital after being struck by vehicle in Aberdeen
KAMLOOPS - An 18-year-old woman has been taken to hospital after being hit by a vehicle in Aberdeen.At roughly 7:00 p.m. last night (Dec. 5), Kamloops RCMP responded to a report of a pedestrian-involv...
Dec 05, 2019 Image Credit: Submitted / Nathan Ritchie
Police searching for missing woman
KAMLOOPS - RCMP looking for help in finding a missing 22-year old First Nations woman. Hayley Haines was last seen Tuesday (Dec. 3) in the area of Columbia Street and 3rd Avenue. In a news release, Ha...
Dec 06, 2019 Image Credit: RCMP
Kamloops MP pans throne speech
KAMLOOPS - "I don't think it will be any surprise that of course, I am disappointed in the speech from the throne." That's how Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod summed up Thursday's (Dec. 5) L...
Dec 06, 2019 Image Credit:CPAC
Kamloops woman hoping to find living donor before going on deceased waitlist
KAMLOOPS - Julie Dodds worries one day not being well enough to take care of her three boys. "Dialysis can take so much time and it's so, so hard on your body that how could I be there for them?" she ...
Dec 05, 2019 Julie Dodds has a rare kidney disease. She's been looking for a living donor (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Organizers of local Shoebox Project hope for last-minute burst of generosity to reach goal
KAMLOOPS - Piles of festive gift boxes can be found throughout the offices of Abbott Wealth Management. The company is once again the collection point for the fourth annual Shoebox Project in Kamloops...
Dec 05, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Jill Sperling
