Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
B.C. minimum wage to increase by 40 cents to $18.25 on June 1
VICTORIA - Some of the province's lowest-paid workers will be getting another 40-cent increase on June 1 when B.C.'s minimum wage goes up in an effort to keep pace with inflation.The B.C. government s...
Feb 26, 2026 (Image Credit: Bayne Stanley/The Canadian Press)
TRU Day of Giving hopes to raise $100,000 for students
KAMLOOPS - Thursday (Feb 26) is Thompson Rivers University's annual day of giving with donations being accepted until midnight. Last year, TRU was able to set a high bar as it was able to raise just s...
Feb 26, 2026 TRU Day of Giving 2026 (Image Credit: Kent Simmonds/CFJC Today)
Police identify man found dead in Merritt home, say criminality is involved
MERRITT, B.C. - A 63-year-old man was found dead at a home in Merritt last week. In an update distributed Thursday (Feb. 26), BC RCMP's Southeast District Major Crime Unit (SED MCU) identifies the vic...
Feb 26, 2026 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Cranbrook RCMP operation in Kamloops puts OLPH and RIH on hold-and-secure
KAMLOOPS - Police placed Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) and a North Shore school in separate hold-and-secure protocols as they arrested a suspect with outstanding warrants earlier this week. A notable po...
Feb 26, 2026 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Woman killed in crash on Highway 97A south of Sicamous
SICAMOUS, B.C. - A 22-year-old woman from Salmon Arm was killed in a two-vehicle collision south of Sicamous Wednesday (Feb. 25). Sicamous RCMP say officers responded to the 8800-block of Highway 97A ...
Feb 26, 2026 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Driver clocked going 56 km/h over the speed limit in Merritt
MERRITT, B.C. - Double the speed, double the trouble. Merritt RCMP say a vehicle was caught speeding at 106 km/h down Voght Street past the local police detachment on Monday (Feb. 23). The posted spee...
Feb 26, 2026 (Image Credit: Merritt RCMP)
Gusts of up to 80 km/h expected on Coquihalla from Kamloops to Merritt, Okanagan Connector
KAMLOOPS - Drivers are being warned of challenging conditions on a pair of mountain highways in the Kamloops area. In a special weather statement online, Environment Canada says wind gusts of up to 80...
Feb 26, 2026 Highway 5 about 30 kilometres south of Kamloops, looking south, at around 6:00 a.m. Thursday. (Image Credit: DriveBC)
Students at A.E. Perry Elementary show kindness for annual Pink Shirt Day
KAMLOOPS - The last Wednesday of February marks Pink Shirt Day for students across Canada. The day started in 2007 when two students from a Nova Scotia school bought 50 pink t-shirts after their frien...
Feb 25, 2026 A crowd of A.E. Perry Elementary Students gathered at the school assembly for Pink Shirt Day. (Image Credit: Curtis Goodrum / CFJC Today)
Kamloops-Thompson School District looking toward pre-fab additions to help ease capacity stress
KAMLOOPS - School District 73 has a long list of needed capital projects which begins with a Batchelor Heights elementary school, includes a new secondary school in Aberdeen, along with a host of repl...
Feb 25, 2026 Sa-Hali Secondary (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
'Whatever this is, it's not working'; Conservative leadership candidate Black lashes out at government during Kamloops stop
KAMLOOPS - Iain Black is the first of two BC Conservative candidates to campaign in Kamloops this week, stopping into town on Wednesday (Feb. 25) for a meet-up with supporters downtown. Black enters t...
Feb 25, 2026 Iain Black during a stop in Kamloops (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
