Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops Interior Summer School of Music prepares to 'break a leg' July 23 and 24
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Interior Summer School of Music (KISSM) is just over halfway through its summer camp. The program has been running since 1978, making this the 47th year of the music camp. Last...
Jul 18, 2025
Into Thin Air - Sherri McLaughlin | No arrests, no answers in Kamloops woman's disappearance
KAMLOOPS - It's been more than 30 years since 20-year-old Sherri McLaughlin went missing from a Brocklehurst neighbourhood. To this day, she hasn't been found, and nobody has been arrested. "For mysel...
Jul 18, 2025
Reduced flights, 'geopolitical factors' lead to decline in spring passenger numbers at YKA
KAMLOOPS - New data released by Kamloops Airport (YKA) shows there was a drop in the number of passengers during the spring of this year. There were 65,971 passengers processed during the months of Ap...
Jul 18, 2025
Senior Kamloops Rattlers aiming to end lengthy Rowcliffe Cup drought, but in tough against favoured Kelowna Raiders
KAMLOOPS - The Rowcliffe Cup has been elusive for the Kamloops Rattlers, the senior lacrosse club last claiming the league championship and its coveted hardware in 2010. "It's been a long time," Rattl...
Jul 18, 2025
BCGEU poised to hold strike vote amid stalled contract talks
One of British Columbia's biggest pubic sector unions could be headed for job action amid an "impasse" in contract negotiations. The B.C. General Employees Union (BCGEU) says more than 34,000 of its m...
Jul 18, 2025
CSRD moving ahead with road rescue service in North and South Shuswap but not Falkland
SALMON ARM, B.C. - The Columbia Shuswap Regional District (CSRD) is moving ahead with plans to implement a new road rescue service in the North and South Shuswap, but not in the Falkland area. At its ...
Jul 18, 2025
TNRD Board greenlights first-ever parks and trails strategic plan
KAMLOOPS - A plan to guide the development, management and operation of parks and trails within the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) for the next 10 years has been approved. The TNRD Board of ...
Jul 18, 2025
Einarson, Gushue, Dunstone among six rinks added to 2026 Scotties and Brier fields
Three teams have been added to each of the 2026 Canadian men's and women's curling championships, Curling Canada announced Friday. Four-time champion Kerri Einarson and her team from Gimli, Man., have...
Jul 18, 2025 Manitoba-Dunstone skip Matt Dunstone reacts to his shot while playing Canada during the playoffs at the Brier, in Kelowna, B.C., on Saturday, March 8, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Surveillance camera captures image of theft suspect moments before being stolen from Kamloops home
KAMLOOPS - A suspect was shown on surveillance video stealing the security camera that caught the image of him at a Kamloops home.At around 1:00 a.m. on July 9, Kamloops RCMP say a resident noticed a ...
Jul 18, 2025
Sicamous rallies after wild Wednesday storm
SICAMOUS, B.C. - Cleanup continues in Sicamous following a powerful storm Wednesday night that left debris scattered across the community and prompted dozens of emergency calls.District operations cre...
Jul 18, 2025
