Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
One person dead after vehicle goes off embankment west of Cache Creek Sunday
CACHE CREEK, B.C. - One person is dead after a vehicle went off an embankment and into the water west of Cache Creek. Just before 10:30 a.m. Sunday (Feb. 1), Kamloops Search and Rescue (KSAR) says its...
Feb 02, 2026 (Image Credit: Facebook/Kamloops Search and Rescue)
Shoplifter suspected of stealing hundreds of dollars in items from Merritt business
MERRITT, B.C. - Merritt RCMP are trying to identify a shoplifting suspect involved in three separate incidents. In a news release issued Monday (Feb. 2), RCMP say an Indigenous man with short shaved d...
Feb 02, 2026 (Image Credit: Merritt RCMP)
Three Secwepemc Nation communities form society to take jurisdiction of child and family services
TK'EMLUPS - Three communities within the Secwpemc Nation have taken a step toward self-governance in child and family services. Bonaparte First Nation, Tkemlps te Secwpemc and Whispering Pines/Clinton...
Feb 02, 2026 Tkʼemlúps te Secwèpemc helped form Yecwminte re Xqwllint, the Take Care of Baby Basket Society. (Image Credit: CFJC Today/File photo)
Over a thousand requests made for free emergency-grade address signs, TNRD says
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) says there have been a lot of requests for new emergency-grade address signs over the past few months, though it notes it is still able to accom...
Feb 01, 2026 TNRD residents can apply for these free emergency-grade address signs until April 11, 2027. (Image Credit: TNRD)
Kamloops top cop reports some success in investigations into recent suspicious fires
KAMLOOPS - The head of the Kamloops RCMP detachment says his officers have been having some success in solving some recent suspicious fires across the city.At the Jan. 26 safety and security committee...
Feb 01, 2026 The aftermath of the fire at the former Fashion 5 building on Victoria Street. (Image Credit: Victor Kaisar/CFJC Today File)
UPDATE: Police incident north of Coquihalla Summit cleared; details remain unclear
MERRITT - (UPDATE 1:00 p.m.): DriveBC says the Coquihalla Highway has been cleared and traffic is flowing again.ORIGINAL STORY - Drivers on the Coquihalla Highway heading from Hope to Merritt are bein...
Feb 01, 2026 Traffic lined up behind police vehicles on the Coquihalla Highway on Feb. 1, 2026. (Image Credit: Lisa Burns/Facebook)
UPDATE: Traffic moving again after multi-vehicle crash near Coquihalla, Trans-Canada intersection in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - (UPDATE 4:15 p.m.): Traffic on Highway 5 is flowing again after a closure caused by a multi-vehicle crash near the intersection with the Trans-Canada Highway Saturday (Jan. 31) afternoon.Ac...
Jan 31, 2026 Traffic at a standstill near the intersection of highway 1 and highway 5 west of Kamloops (Image Credit: Shantel Renner/Facebook)
'We actually need to treat the problem': Fulmer discusses plans on drug recovery
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops city council has been extremely vocal with their desire to see more recovery focused housing come to the community, in return they have been faced with opposition by the B.C. Gover...
Jan 31, 2026 Yuri Fulmer (Image Credit: Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press)
SD73 adds new accessible school bus to increase equitable field trip transportation
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops-Thompson School District (SD73) has added a new accessible school bus to its fleet, which it says will help it "expand equitable field trip transportation opportunities" in the...
Jan 31, 2026 (Image Credit: Kamloops-Thompson School District)
BC Seniors Advocate sounds alarm on lack of long-term care beds
KAMLOOPS - The province's seniors advocate has called on the province to act on the lack of government-funded long-term care beds. The oldest baby boomer is now 80 years old, and these beds are in gre...
Jan 30, 2026 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
