Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
UPDATE: Up to 75 centimetres of snow possible near the Coquihalla Summit by Saturday
MERRITT, B.C. - (UPDATE 11:30 a.m.): The Coquihalla Highway from Hope to Merritt can't catch a winter break this week. Environment Canada is forecasting between 45 and 75 centimetres of snowfall for t...
Dec 18, 2025 Highway 5 about 7 kilometres north of Zopkios Brake Check, looking south, shortly after 7:00 a.m. Thursday.
BC Assessment scraps proposed change to pipeline valuations: TNRD
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson Nicola Regional District (TNRD) says a change in the assessment of pipelines that could have shifted a huge burden to residential taxpayers is not going through.In a news relea...
Dec 17, 2025 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
While celebrating progress, RIH admits work still needs to be done on maternity care in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health (IH) officials updated the public about maternity care in Kamloops Wednesday (Dec. 17), noting two new obstetricians are set to begin work next May, with IH in the recruitme...
Dec 17, 2025 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
First-ever Festival of Trees lights up Kamloops hotel lobby for BC Children's Hospital
KAMLOOPS - The Delta Hotel is hosting the first-ever Festival of Trees in the City of Kamloops. It's an event that takes place throughout British Columbia with seven cities participating to raise mone...
Dec 17, 2025 (Image Credit: Image Credit: Curtis Goodrum / CFJC Today)
Kamloops MLA Milobar awaiting official leadership race criteria before making final decision
KAMLOOPS - The BC Conservative Party has yet to release the criteria for its upcoming leadership contest as it looks to replace John Rustad and elect a new leader of the official opposition. A number ...
Dec 17, 2025 Peter Milobar (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Salvation Army Christmas Hampers filled by generous Kamloops Honda employees, customers
KAMLOOPS - It's Year 33 for the Salvation Army's Christmas Hampers. Kamloops Honda, along with other community partners work to make sure the hampers are full for the holidays. "Every year, the need s...
Dec 17, 2025 Hampers loaded into a truck. (Image Credit: Image Credit: Curtis Goodrum / CFJC Today)
Four years after atmospheric river, full length of Highway 8 opens to 2-lane traffic
MERRITT, B.C. - For the first time since it was devastated by the atmospheric river of 2021, Highway 8 between Merritt and Spences Bridge is fully open to two lanes of traffic.The province's Ministry ...
Dec 17, 2025 A section of Highway 8, September 2025. (Image Credit: Flickr / Ministry of Transportation and Transit)
Pair of new obstetricians to start in Kamloops next May, 8 more in recruitment pipeline: IH
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health (IH) says it has recruited a pair of new obstetricians for Kamloops, helping ease a crisis in the community's maternity care network.The health authority has been scrambling...
Dec 17, 2025 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Separate outages knock out power to thousands in the Shuswap
CELISTA AND SICAMOUS, B.C. - UPDATE: BC Hydro says the North Shuswap outage ended at 1:00 p.m.EARLIER: A large portion of the Shuswap is without power Wednesday morning (Dec. 17) due to two separate i...
Dec 17, 2025 Power outage area in the North Shuswap. (Image Credit: BC Hydro)
Vehicle incident snarls northbound traffic on the Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt
MERRITT, B.C. - Traffic on the Coquihalla Highway from Hope to Merritt will be halted throughout the morning. DriveBC first reported of a vehicle incident at around 6:20 a.m. Wednesday (Dec. 17). The ...
Dec 17, 2025 Highway 5 about 36 kilometres south of Merritt at Larson Hill, looking south, as of 9:40 a.m. Wednesday (Image Credit: DriveBC)
