Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops to receive funding for gang-prevention programs
KAMLOOPS - A million-dollar investment for select BC communities - including Kamloops - is aiming to help at-risk kids get off the path to gun and gang violence. In a news release, the provincial gove...
Mar 12, 2019
Kamloops man slams Air Canada for failing to waive fees amid 737 controversy
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - A Kamloops man is slamming Canadian airlines for allowing Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft to continue flying, despite a crash in Africa that killed dozens on Sunday. The cause of the ...
Mar 12, 2019
Kamloops school board votes to reopen Westsyde Elementary
KAMLOOPS - Come September, Westsyde Elementary School will be home to students once again. Monday night (March 11), School District 73’s board of education voted unanimously to reorganize the ca...
Mar 12, 2019
Kamloops P.A.R.T.Y. program explores the impacts of impaired driving
KAMLOOPS - Four Kamloops high schools are taking part in the Kamloops P.A.R.T.Y. program, and it’s a sobering event. P.A.R.T.Y. stands for Preventing Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth. &#...
Mar 11, 2019
Negotiations, civic duties causing delays in cultural centre at Stuart Wood
KAMLOOPS - The former Stuart Wood Elementary School has sat empty for nearly two years now, and while there are plans in place to transform it into a cultural centre, the building will remain vacant f...
Mar 11, 2019
Another dusting of snow on the way for Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Temperatures may be warming up, but we haven’t seen the last of winter yet. Environment Canada meteorologist Bobby Sekhon says starting around midnight tonight (March 11), a system ap...
Mar 11, 2019
Jury hears closing arguments in Kamloops manslaughter trial
KAMLOOPS - A B.C. Supreme Court jury must decide whether a Kamloops man was acting reasonably when he punched a man three times outside of a North Shore night club on Dec. 30, 2016. Sean Dunn, 42, die...
Mar 11, 2019
B-100 a finalist for RTDNA's best newscast in B.C.
VANCOUVER - The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) has recognized the CFJC newsroom for its work during 2018. The association announced its regional awards finalists Monday, and the lis...
Mar 11, 2019
Kamloops first-ever Write-a-Thon worth writing home about
KAMLOOPS - As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, which means the video in this story is worth around 3.6 million. Coincidentally, that’s around the same number of words wr...
Mar 11, 2019
New look Boogie the Bridge coming to Kamloops in 2019
KAMLOOPS - For 22 years, Boogie the Bridge has given Kamloops residents an opportunity to celebrate movement and the change that comes with it. For almost that long, the RunClub Boogie training has be...
Mar 10, 2019
