Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops says it is extending the hours of the Westsyde Pool and Fitness Centre, in response to the poor air quality in the region. The Westsyde facility will be open from 11:30...

KAMLOOPS - It might be a good day to stay indoors if you’re bothered by smoke. The smoke is laying heavy over the city this morning and it isn’t going away for a bit yet. It’s coming...

KAMLOOPS - Traffic is moving between Savona and Cache Creek on Highway 1 west of Kamloops – slowly after a mudslide blocked the Trans Canada late Saturday night. The highway was reopened to sing...

KAMLOOPS -UPDATE - Traffic is starting to move again in the Cache Creek area after a series of mud slides yesterday. The slides closed sections of the Trans Canada Highway and Highway 97 after heavy r...

KAMLOOPS - Severe thunderstorms are possible across much of the Southwest Interior and Columbias today. Environment Canada has issued a watch, stating the storm system will move in from the coast, bri...

KAMLOOPS - Ribfest is well underway at Riverside Park. The seventh annual event kicked off at 11 a.m. Friday, just in time for the Kamloops lunch crowd. The smell of ribs smoking on the grill wafts ov...

KAMLOOPS - The air quality has improved substantially over the past 24 hours in Kamloops. “There’s still a haze in the air,” says Air Quality Meteorologist Ralph Adams with the Minis...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops is expected to flirt with another weather record today but we’re in for a big change this weekend. Environment Canada Meteorologist Doug Lundquist says highs could hit 38 tod...

KAMLOOPS - Good news on the employment front in Kamloops. Statistics Canada says unemployment was down year-over-year in the Tournament Capital. “For Kamloops, what we’re seeing is the une...

KAMLOOPS - With near-record temperatures scorching British Columbia's landscape today, it's the perfect time to get to a lake or a river, find some shade, and enjoy the sunshine. But with that sunshin...