Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Mock carbon monoxide leak tests response of emergency crews in Clearwater
KAMLOOPS - Within minutes of the alarm sounding at Clearwater Secondary School, firefighters begin to arrive on scene. It isn't a real emergency, but crews have been instructed to treat it as one. "Th...
May 28, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Jill Sperling
Kelson Group announces to new buildings to be developed at TRU
KAMLOOPS - More than 80 housing units will help fill the gap in Kamloops's rental market. The Kelson Group purchased two lots near Thompson Rivers University, and will be developing two buildings as p...
May 28, 2019 Image Credit: The Kelson Group
City, CUPE employees reach five-year contract
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops and its CUPE-represented employees have reached an agreement on a new five-year contract.In a release, the City says the deal includes a 2.5 per cent wage increase in i...
May 28, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Suspect arrested after flight from police injures Kamloops Mountie
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops RCMP officer was injured Sunday when his police cruiser was rammed by a man in a stolen vehicle.According to a news release from RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Jodi Shelkie, a Jeep Grand...
May 28, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Adam Donnelly
Police release more information into Kamloops home invasion
KAMLOOPS - Police in Kamloops are urging the public to come forward with information about a home invasion.Kamloops RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Jodi Shelkie says just before 4:00 a.m. Sunday (May 26) offic...
May 28, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops celebrates Public Works Week with Civic Operations open house
KAMLOOPS - Every day in our city, hundreds of people go about their jobs in the Civic Operations department. It may be street sweeping, or snow clearing, or mowing the sports fields we play on, but th...
May 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops firefighters shine in FireFit Regional competition
KAMLOOPS - Hundreds of the fittest firefighters were in the city over the weekend. That's because Kamloops Fire Rescue was the host department for the 2019 Southern BC Regional Firefit competition, wh...
May 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
New City of Kamloops three-dog adjudication process working well: councillor
KAMLOOPS - The procedural change that removed dog bylaw variance applications from Kamloops council is working well, according to one councillor.A Kamloops bylaw restricts locals from having more than...
May 27, 2019 Image Credit: (Tangibleday / Dreamstime.com)
Drone photos and new software being used in search for Ryan Shtuka
SUN PEAKS, B.C. - The family of a young man who went missing in February 2018 has never given up the search. Ryan Shtuka was 20 years old when he walked away from a house party in Sun Peaks and vanish...
May 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Chad Klassen
Wildfire smoke creeping further south from fires in Alberta, Northern B.C.
KAMLOOPS - What is already reality in northern B.C. is slowly making its way south: the dreaded return of wildfire smoke. The province has issued a Smoky Skies Bulletin for the Northeast and North Cen...
May 27, 2019 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
