Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
BC Forests Minister assures funding backs wildfire response improvements
KAMLOOPS - Speaking in Kamloops today at the Interior Logging Association's Conference, B.C Forests Minister says the provincial government is prepared for wildfire season, with what is shaping up to ...
May 03, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Sun Peaks looking at future of community education
SUN PEAKS, B.C. - Sun Peaks is one of the fastest growing communities in the region. Since the elementary school there first opened for the 2010-2011 season with 18 students, the resort municipality h...
May 03, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops social worker hoping for community input on World Suicide Prevention Day event
KAMLOOPS - After a one-year hiatus, a Kamloops social worker is looking to re-start the annual World Suicide Prevention Day event in Kamloops. Jolene Lindsay of C and C Resources, along with the centr...
May 03, 2019 Image Credit: File photo / CFJC Today
School District 73 moving forward on improvements for sexual misconduct handling
KAMLOOPS - A task force established after numerous complaints around sexual misconduct within the Kamloops-Thompson School District has now completed their list of recommendations for the school syste...
May 03, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / School District 73
City of Kamloops, RCMP asking drivers to slow down in construction zones
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops and the Kamloops RCMP have put out a joint public safety statement regarding drivers in construction zones.The statement says both agencies recognize that local road wo...
May 03, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Prescribed Burn For Goose Lake Area
KAMLOOPS - Officials are planning a prescribed burn in the Goose Lake area, about nine kilometres south of Kamloops. The BC Wildfire Service and the Tk'emlups Forestry Development Corporation expect t...
May 03, 2019 Image Credit: BC Wildfire Service (Prescribed Burn File Image)
File closed on fatal 2018 hit and run
KAMLOOPS - The file around a fatal hit and run in October of 2018 has now been closed, after it was learned the 75-year-old suspect identified by Kamloops RCMP had already passed away. Around 1:30 in ...
May 03, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
KCBIA wins provincial awards
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association came home with three awards from the recent B.C.-wide conference in Surrey. They won awards for their Sustainability and Coffee program...
May 03, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops Food Bank looking to raise thousands with Empty Bowls auction
KAMLOOPS - Mixing art with Hollywood star-power, a number of celebrity-signed bowls are up for auction tomorrow as the Kamloops Food Bank hosts their 4th annual BCLC Empty Bowls Fundraiser.Food Bank B...
May 02, 2019 Image Credit: Kamloops Food Bank
Local business owner grows impatient with provincial approval process for cannabis stores
KAMLOOPS - It's been nearly seven months since recreational cannabis was legalized across Canada. Kamloops was the first community in the province to open up a government owned Cannabis store, and wou...
May 02, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Chad Klassen
