Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Property tax deadline day in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - It’s deadline day for property taxes in Kamloops. If you don’t pay on time, the city says a 10 per cent penalty on current outstanding taxes and unclaimed Home Owner Grants will...
Jul 3, 2018
Some Kamloops' sports field closures remain in effect
KAMLOOPS - Update: This afternoon the City of Kamloops decided to close more sports fields due to soggy field conditions. They are: Pacific Way soccer fields Pacific Way slo-pitch fields West Highland...
Jul 3, 2018
June rains dampen fire activity in Kamloops Fire Centre
KAMLOOPS - June ended up being a soggy month in the Kamloops Fire Centre but that doesn’t mean forest fires won’t return with a vengeance later this summer. Fire Information Officer Brenna...
Jul 2, 2018
Out of the Heat program kicks off in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - While we've experienced a mixed bag in the weather department so far this summer, at times Kamloops can be one of the hottest cities in the country. And with the recent point-in-time homele...
Jul 2, 2018
"We cannot tolerate this type of white supremacist racism": Skeetchestn chief
KAMLOOPS - The chief of the Skeetchestn First Nation says profanity-laden graffiti targeting a Secwepemc sign in Batchelor Heights angered him and he hopes whoever did it is caught. A Secwepemc sign a...
Jul 2, 2018
'A void that will never be filled': Friend mourns Kamloops man killed on the job
KAMLOOPS - “He was wise beyond his years.” The words of Jesse Bochek in describing his close friend Brendan Stokes, who was killed while at work in Kamloops Friday. The 19 year old Stokes ...
Jul 2, 2018
Despite the rain, Kamloops celebrates Canada's 151st Birthday
KAMLOOPS - It was one of wettest Canada Day Celebrations anyone in Kamloops could recall. Despite the rain, Canada Day at Riverside Park started off as planned, with a number of local politicians and ...
Jul 2, 2018
Soggy conditions close sports fields at McArthur Island
KAMLOOPS - Excessive rainfall has prompted the City of Kamloops to close all sports fields at McArthur Island Park until further notice. “We are concerned about player safety as well as potentia...
Jul 2, 2018
July snow falls on the Okanagan Connector
PEACHLAND, B.C. - Environment Canada forecasters say snow can fall on the highest elevations of the Coquihalla Highway system 12 months of the year – and we just saw an example. There was snow o...
Jul 2, 2018
Canada Day crowd wet, but enthusiastic
KAMLOOPS - Weatherwise, it wasn’t the greatest Canada Day ever, but thousands braved their way through the odd period of heavy rain to participate in the day’s events at Riverside Park. Th...
Jul 2, 2018
