Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Completed parkade mural expands downtown art scene
KAMLOOPS - Over 80,000 tiles later, downtown drivers and pedestrians now have a full view of the completed mural on the Lansdowne Parkade. The mosaic, Community Confluence, comes from the mind of loca...
Jul 3, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Retail license wait list shortening, cannabis revenue-sharing still not set: UBCM President
KAMLOOPS - Despite cannabis becoming legal eight months ago, there has been no decision yet how revenue from retail taxation will be split between governments. On top of that, a number of applications...
Jul 3, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops Airport to receive new aviation firefighting truck
KAMLOOPS - With passenger numbers now above the 300,000 mark, the Kamloops Airport is adding to its safety fleet. The Minister of Rural Economic Development Bernadette Jordan was in Kamloops on Wednes...
Jul 3, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Chad Klassen
Fire at Eaglepoint Golf started by 'bee smoker'
KAMLOOPS - You don't often see a grass fire start in the middle of a golf course, but that's what happened at Eaglepoint in Barnhartvale yesterday afternoon. Kamloops Fire Rescue Assistant Chief Robb ...
Jul 3, 2019 Image Credit: Facebook / Eaglepoint Golf Resort
Two Kamloops teens killed in weekend crash near Prince George
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - The BC Coroner's Service says two teenagers from Kamloops were killed in a crash north of Prince George.Police say the male and female were in a vehicle that collided head-on wit...
Jul 3, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops Airport celebrating 80 years, planning for expansion
KAMLOOPS - The first flight at the Kamloops Airport took off in August 1939. Since the tarmac has opened, Fulton Field has grown exponentially, especially in recent years. "We watch the passenger numb...
Jul 2, 2019 Fulton Field is celebrating 80 years in 2019 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Iconic CF-5 Freedom Fighter lands new home at Kamloops Airport
KAMLOOPS - As part of the 80-year anniversary, the airport officially unveiled the new location for its iconic CF-5 Freedom Fighter at Fulton Field on Tuesday. The CF-5 now stands tall at the roundabo...
Jul 2, 2019 The CF-5 Freedom Fighter has changed locations and is now at the roundabout at the Kamloops Airport (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer visits Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The leader of the federal Conservatives made a stop in Kamloops today (July 2). Hundreds of Conservative Party members and supporters waited with anticipation to hear from Scheer. The oppos...
Jul 2, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Riverside Park concession stand reopens for the summer
KAMLOOPS - After it was announced that the Riverside Park concession stand would not be opening this year, the City is reversing course.The City of Kamloops says in a news release that the stand was r...
Jul 2, 2019 Image Credit: Kent Simmonds
More than a dozen serval cats seized from Little Fort breeder
KAMLOOPS - 13 serval cats in distress have been seized from a Little Fort breeder. The BC SPCA has seized 10 adult serval cats and three serval kittens in distress, and the organization says the exoti...
Jul 2, 2019 Image Credit: BC SPCA
