Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops burning bans partially rescinded
KAMLOOPS - Yet another sign the wildfire season is drawing to a close. Effective at noon Friday, Category 2 and Category 3 open burning prohibitions were rescinded at elevations higher than 1,200 metr...
Sep 25, 2017
Kamloops council taking many issues to UBCM convention
KAMLOOPS - Drug issues, affordable housing, business investment and improving bus services are some of the main issues city councillors and Acting Mayor Arjun Singh will be taking with them to the UBC...
Sep 24, 2017
Police put call-out for surveillance footage in effort to find shooting suspects
KAMLOOPS - Police are hoping technology will help nab the suspects responsible for Thursday night’s shooting in the west end. Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Nestor Baird says RCMP are looking to speak to an...
Sep 23, 2017
No greater risk to the public after Red Scorpion's co-founder gunned down
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say the risk to the public is relatively low following a brazen shooting in a west end neighbourhood Thursday night. Konaam Shirzad, one of the leading members of the Red Scor...
Sep 23, 2017
Christopher Seguin remembered as tireless community advocate
KAMLOOPS - ‘Larger than life’. Those are the words used to describe Christopher Seguin who died Friday in Victoria after coming down with a sudden illness. The Vice President of Advancemen...
Sep 23, 2017
TRU VP Seguin dies in Victoria hospital after brief illness
KAMLOOPS - CFJC News has confirmed Thompson Rivers University Vice President of Advancement Christopher Seguin has died in hospital in Victoria. Seguin had traveled to Victoria on business earlier thi...
Sep 22, 2017
TRU VP 'critically ill'
KAMLOOPS - This story has been updated here. EARLIER: Sad news to report out of Thompson Rivers University as a member of its executive leadership team is very sick. A statement from TRU states Christ...
Sep 22, 2017
TRU prof says name recognition could be key to success in Kamloops by-election
KAMLOOPS - Candidates can pound the pavement all they like but at the end of the day name recognition may be the deciding factor in who gets elected in this month’s Kamloops by-election. “...
Sep 22, 2017
Kamloops residential school survivors take their spirits back
KAMLOOPS - Beginning in 1893, hundreds of Secwepemc children were forcibly removed from their homes, and taken to the Kamloops Indian Residential School. The school has been closed since 1977, but for...
Sep 22, 2017
Advance voting up in Kamloops by-election so far
KAMLOOPS - After two days of advance voting in this month’s Kamloops by-election, 1,398 people have cast their ballot so far. That’s up from the first two days of advance voting in the 201...
Sep 22, 2017
