Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops residents making last-minute run to pay taxes on time
KAMLOOPS - Time is running out for Kamloops residents to pay their property taxes. City Hall had lineups most of the day as people take care of taxes owed before the July 2 deadline. Residents can sti...
Jun 28, 2019 Kamloops residents line up at City Hall to pay their taxes on Friday (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Severe thunderstorm watch enacted for much of B.C.
KAMLOOPS - Environment Canada is kicking off the long weekend with a severe thunderstorm watch for a large portion of the province.The watch, put in place at about 11:00 a.m. Friday, includes the Sout...
Jun 28, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
RCMP seek suspects in hit-and-run outside Rock'n Firkin
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP would like your help tracking a driver responsible for a hit-and-run earlier this month.According to RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Jodi Shelkie, the incident happened Saturday, June ...
Jun 28, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Habitat Kamloops wins jackpot with $2 million donation by OK Builders
KAMLOOPS - Habitat for Humanity Kamloops feels like it's won the lottery. The non-profit that helps build affordable homes received an incredible gift by a building store that has closed its doors.OK ...
Jun 27, 2019 Habitat For Humanity Kamloops has received construction materials worth more than $2 million from recently-closed OK Builders (Image Credit: Habitat For Humanity)
School's out for Kamloops-Thompson students
KAMLOOPS - With their last classes finishing today, elementary students in School District 73 have started to enjoy their summer vacation. For many, the next year means a new classroom, and for Grade ...
Jun 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Jill Sperling
B.C cattle industry expecting minimal impact from China's meat import ban
KAMLOOPS - After discovering traces of a banned substance (ractopamine) on a pork shipment earlier this month, China has halted accepting Canadian meat products. The BC Cattlemen's Association General...
Jun 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops mayor wants answers for cannabis revenue sharing
KAMLOOPS - In the first five and a half months of cannabis legalization in Canada, Ottawa and the provinces made $186 million from taxes on cannabis.Yet municipalities haven't seen any of that revenue...
Jun 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
VIDEO: Kamloops RCMP searching for stolen Porsche
KAMLOOPS - Police in the city are asking for the public's help in finding a stolen vehicle. On June 26 between 4:30 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. a 1985 Porsche 911 was stolen from a home in Rayleigh, Kamloops R...
Jun 27, 2019 Image Credit: RCMP Handout
Human remains discovered during West Victoria Street construction
KAMLOOPS - Tk'emlups te Secwepemc and the City of Kamloops are working together after the discovery of human remains at the site of the Victoria Street West Improvements Project. The city says in a ne...
Jun 27, 2019 A file photo of construction on the Victoria Street West improvements project. This does not indicate the exact location where ancestral remains were found on June 26, 2019. (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Full maternity services return to Williams Lake hospital July 1
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Canada Day will bring a cause for added celebration for expectant mothers in the Cariboo. Interior Health says full in-patient maternity services will return to Cariboo Memorial ...
Jun 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
