Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
New mini-skating rink officially opens at McArthur Island
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has officially opened a new mini ice rink in the space that used to be occupied by the McArthur Island Curling Club. Sherri Holmes, the city's sport, recreation and wel...
Oct 11, 2025
Snow expected on mountain highways as cold front moves through B.C. interior
Editors note: This story has been updated here to include a special weather statement for the Hope to Merritt section of the Coquihalla. MERRITT - The highway maintenance contractor in the Merritt are...
Oct 11, 2025
Bert Edwards students get experience in the field on Rivers Day
KAMLOOPS - Bert Edwards Science and Technology School hosted its 14th annual Rivers Day on Friday [Oct. 10] on the shore of the North Thompson River. Nearly 300 students from Kindergarten through Grad...
Oct 10, 2025
Licensing delays part of multi-union strike action impacts in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The expansion of the BC General Employees Union strike is making itself known with disruptions across a variety of sectors. That includes liquor and cannabis distribution, ICBC driver's lic...
Oct 10, 2025
Rotating job action coming into effect this weekend for striking postal workers
KAMLOOPS - Some Canada Post delivery service will begin flowing again as the union representing more than 55,000 Canada Post workers shifts to rotating strike action. CUPW Local 758 first vice-preside...
Oct 10, 2025
Kamloops MP's push to change 'child pornography' language in Criminal Code takes effect
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops-area MP's bill to change language used in Canada's legal system goes into effect Friday. Bill C-291 was brought forward by Kamloops-Thompson-Nicola MP Frank Caputo. It will end t...
Oct 10, 2025
Husband of missing Forest Grove mother denies any involvement in her disappearance
FOREST GROVE, B.C. - Eight months after Jennifer Provencal vanished from her rural home in the South Cariboo under suspicious circumstances, her husband denies he had anything to do with his wife's di...
Oct 10, 2025
Kamloops-area unemployment rate drops to 9.5 per cent in September
KAMLOOPS - New data released by Statistics Canada showed a bit of an improvement on the jobs front in the Kamloops-area last monthThe data released Friday (Oct. 10) showed the unemployment rate in the...
Oct 10, 2025
Despite warm weather local mechanics say it's a good time to change over tires
KAMLOOPS - It's time to break out winter tires. If travel plans are made that require the use of the mountain highways like the Coquihalla, winter tires are required as provincial regulations took eff...
Oct 10, 2025
Notre Dame Drive assault victim succumbs to injuries; murder charge laid
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say a second-degree murder charge has been laid as the person who was the victim of a violent assault in the 700-block of Notre Dame Drive last month has succumbed to his inju...
Oct 10, 2025
