Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Province issues advisory for rising North Thompson tributaries
VICTORIA - The focus on high water has shifted to the North Thompson.For the first time this season, the B.C. River Forecast Centre has issued a high streamflow advisory for tributaries of the North T...
May 6, 2020 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
B.C. Wildlife Park breathing easier after community donates $50,000 during closure
KAMLOOPS - The B.C. Wildlife Park has been in a difficult financial position since closing its doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While caring for the animals remains a top priority, closing has mean...
May 5, 2020 B.C. Wildlife Park GM Glenn Grant holds up a $15,000 cheque this week from New Gold. Kamloops businesses and residents have stepped up to raise more than $50,000 in the last two weeks to keep the park afloat (Image Credit: B.C. Wildlife Park)
Report shows childcare shortfall in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - A report to Kamloops council has found a huge shortfall in the number of childcare spaces in the city.The report, compiled by a large and diverse group of stakeholders, found while there ar...
May 5, 2020
Spring mosquito control underway in rural Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - It's early in the season for the usual influx of mosquitoes in urban areas, but mosquito control is well underway in the Kamloops-area grasslands. In the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, ...
May 5, 2020 Cheryl Phippen of BWP Consulting checking out the mosquito population in a Schiedam Flats grassland pond. (Image Credit: Adam Donnelly / CFJC Today)
VIDEO: Badger digs its way into Brocklehurst garden
KAMLOOPS - It appears another critter should have taken a left turn at Albuquerque this week - instead making its way into the garden of a Kamloops resident. A badger dug its way above ground in the b...
May 5, 2020 (Image Credit: Cherie Bitz)
Upper Nicola Band prepares for flooding as Nicola River rises
QUILCHENA, B.C. - The Upper Nicola Indian Band is carefully watching as the Nicola River and nearby lake begin to rise. "We've been preparing," said Chief Harvey McLeod. "For the last ten days or so, ...
May 5, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Jill Sperling
Officials in Cache Creek lift state of emergency
CACHE CREEK, B.C. - The Village of Cache Creek has lifted a state of emergency put in place two weeks ago due to rising water.Evacuations followed close behind when the waterway Cache Creek began risi...
May 5, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Massive, year-long Tranquille Road sewer project to begin next week
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops says a major utility upgrade project will kick off next Monday.The construction will see a portion of a sewer main along Tranquille Road between 12th Street and Southil...
May 5, 2020 Image Credit: City of Kamloops
Windsor Plywood Foundation chips in $75k for TRU carpentry program
KAMLOOPS - Windsor Plywood is helping Thompson Rivers University inch closer to its $50 million fundraising goal.In a news release this morning, TRU announced the Windsor Plywood Foundation has donate...
May 5, 2020 Bryan and Karie Ghering (Image Credit: Thompson Rivers University)
City of Kamloops, local organizations to start feeling loss of gaming revenues soon
KAMLOOPS - When provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced a ban on gatherings of more than 50 people in March, casinos were among the first major establishments to shut their doors. Nearly ...
May 4, 2020 Casinos in B.C. have been shut down since March due to COVID-19 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
