Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
UPDATE: Crews making progress on knocking down Tranquille grass fire
KAMLOOPS - Fire crews in Kamloops are responding to a grass fire west of the city. Smoke can be seen coming from the Tranquille Creek area and several fire engines responded. Kamloops Fire Rescue Plat...
Mar 18, 2019
A successful 23rd year for the Kamloops Film Festival
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Film Festival may have just ended, but the executive director for the city’s film society says it was the best year yet. Dusan Magdolen, executive director with the Kamlo...
Mar 18, 2019
Kamloops in store for above-normal temperatures this week
KAMLOOPS - It’s starting to feel like springtime in Kamloops this week, with high temperatures getting close to the 20 C mark. Environment Canada forecaster Bobby Sekhon says temperatures will b...
Mar 18, 2019
Switch to summer gas blend expected to bring higher prices at the pumps
KAMLOOPS - While the weather warms up in Kamloops, gas prices are also expected to go up. Gas Buddy Senior Analyst Dan McTeague says gasoline providers are starting to change over to the summer blend ...
Mar 17, 2019
Kamloops libraries keeping kids busy over spring break
KAMLOOPS - Like many other medical waiting rooms throughout Kamloops, it was a packed house Saturday morning. What separated this waiting room from most clinics and RIH were the patients. Teddy bear h...
Mar 16, 2019
City's spring street sweeping getting underway
KAMLOOPS - With winter coming to a close for this year, the City of Kamloops is marching forward with street sweeping. Streets and Environmental Services Manager Glen Farrow says there are still bits ...
Mar 16, 2019
Kamloops youth vocalize against climate change inaction
KAMLOOPS - ‘Fridays for Future’ became viral in 2018 after Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student at the time, sat in front of Swedish Parliament building every day for 3 weeks to protest c...
Mar 15, 2019
Kamloops parents remain mixed on length of spring break
KAMLOOPS - Students across most of the province are now off on spring break, and while most B.C. students have the luxury of two weeks away from school, kids in School District 73 only get a one-week ...
Mar 15, 2019
Kamloops Cowboy Festival celebrates the western way of life
KAMLOOPS - All things cowboy are on display at the Coast Convention Centre, marking the 23rd year of the Kamloops Cowboy Festival. “What is the Cowboy Festival? It’s the celebration of rur...
Mar 15, 2019
Kamloops Muslim community gathering together after recent violence
KAMLOOPS - Locally, the Muslim community in Kamloops is shocked by news of the New Zealand massacre (March 15) which claimed the lives of 49 people. The Kamloops Islamic Association says there have no...
Mar 15, 2019
