Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
National Injury Prevention Day comes during usual summertime ER visit peak
KAMLOOPS - Today Canadians are urged to take precautions, with the third annual National Injury Prevention Day. With Royal Inland Hospital's Emergency Department treating about 700 to 800 trauma cases...
Jul 05, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Crash closes Coquihalla near Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - UPDATE: Kamloops RCMP, and the coroners service are investigating a fatal collision last night which had shut down the Coquihalla highway. Sgt. Thomas Dimopoulos says around 4 p.m yesterday...
Jul 05, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
More than $300,000 in stolen property seized by Chase RCMP
CHASE, B.C. - A cache of firearms and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stolen property has been seized by RCMP in Chase, but no charges have been laid.Police say in a news release that two se...
Jul 05, 2019 Image Credit: BC RCMP
VIDEO: Y Dream Home winners tour their new house
KAMLOOPS - The winners of the 2019 Y Dream Home visited their brand new home in Tobiano Thursday afternoon. It's the first home Manmeet Sra and Simranjot Kaur have ever owned, and it only cost them $1...
Jul 05, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Jill Sperling
Unemployment low in Thompson-Okanagan, much of B.C.
KAMLOOPS - The doom and gloom in the B.C. Interior forest sector has yet to have an impact on employment statistics.According to June totals from Statistics Canada, unemployment was 4.9 per cent in th...
Jul 05, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
Endangered owls burrow into grasslands of Upper Nicola Band
KAMLOOPS - Five burrowing owls were brought to the Upper Nicola Band reserve today to begin their new lives in the wild. The endangered owls have limited spots to live, as grasslands are commonly deve...
Jul 04, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Typical June rains show up two weeks late to southern B.C.
KAMLOOPS - June is typically a wet month in the southern Interior, but Environment Canada says some of the precipitation we missed out on last month is just late to the party."We had a fairly dry June...
Jul 04, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
RIH tower foundation permit pushes June toward record territory for building sector
KAMLOOPS - A big month of June has the City of Kamloops nearing $150 million in building permits issued at the halfway point in 2019.Builders took out $50.5 million in permits last month. Building and...
Jul 04, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Canada Day stabbing suspect charged with aggravated assault
KAMLOOPS - The suspect in a Canada Day stabbing in downtown Kamloops has been charged with aggravated assault. 31-year-old Patrick Rejean Paul-Prescott was formally charged Wednesday (July 3). A 54-ye...
Jul 04, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Full list of Kamloops Y Dream Home Lottery winners
KAMLOOPS - It wasn't just the custom home in Tobiano and a 50/50 prize of nearly $100,000 handed out at the Y Dream Home Lottery draw on Wednesday,In total, there were more than 600 winners of other p...
Jul 04, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
