Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops reporter lands a spot on Big Brother Canada
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops-based reporter has been selected to take part in a popular national TV show. John Luke Kieper, who works for Kamloops BC Now, will be appearing on the eighth season of Big Brothe...
Feb 26, 2020 Image Credit: Twitter / John Luke Kieper
Kamloops RCMP engage with post-secondary students on the subject of pipeline protests
KAMLOOPS - It's a complicated issue, with no clear solution. The conflict between the Wet'suwet'en and Coastal GasLink has now spilled far beyond the path of the pipeline, grinding rail traffic to a h...
Feb 26, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
City settles on 2.97% tax increase as RCMP requests dominate supplemental budget list
KAMLOOPS - The RCMP are getting some reinforcements, not in the form of additional officers but two positions that will help the force focus more on protecting the community. One is a police accounts ...
Feb 25, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
RCMP say young boy initially reported deceased in crash near Kamloops actually in grave condition
KAMLOOPS - RCMP say a young boy originally reported dead in a Sunday (Feb. 23) crash south of Kamloops, is actually alive in 'grave condition'.The crash happened Sunday on Highway 5A near Napier Lake....
Feb 25, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Jill Sperling
Three people arrested from Neskonlith blockade
NESKONLITH, B.C. - RCMP have arrested three people who were part of a blockade on railroad tracks on Neskonlith land east of Kamloops.In a news release, RCMP say officers were called in yesterday to a...
Feb 25, 2020 Image Credit: Facebook / Anushka Azadi
Ontario Teachers' fund invests $300 million in New Afton mine near Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - New Gold has announced a major cash infusion into the New Afton mine near Kamloops from one of Canada's leading - and most recognizable investors.According to a news release from New Gold, ...
Feb 25, 2020 Image Credit: New Gold
Two Ontario men die in fiery crash at Three Valley Gap
REVELSTOKE, B.C. - Two men from Ontario died in a crash west of Revelstoke last weekend.According to a news release from Revelstoke RCMP, the two were in a commercial truck that crashed with another s...
Feb 25, 2020 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Kamloops parents invited to attend anti-gang seminar
KAMLOOPS - Parents in two Southern Interior cities are being asked to attend upcoming education sessions as part of B.C.'s school-based gang prevention initiative.The upcoming parent education session...
Feb 25, 2020 Image Credit: Kamloops-Thompson School District
Blockade on Neskonlith rail tracks is back
KAMLOOPS - It didn't take long for a rail blockade to be re-established on the CP rail tracks near Chase. After a blockade was set up, and then removed, last Thursday (Feb. 20), it appears the blockad...
Feb 24, 2020 Image Credit: Facebook- Anushka Azadi
'They just didn't give up': Woman thanks Blazers alumni who helped during 2015 emergency
KAMLOOPS - On January 25, 2015, while traveling the Coquihalla Highway, Cathy Fitzgerald and her family stopped at the rest area near the old toll booth. What happened next can only be described as th...
Feb 24, 2020 Five years later, Cathy Fitzgerald thanks Don Hay for helping her Mom while she was having a heart attack. Image Credit: CFJC Today
