Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Canadian Blind Hockey hosting first-ever try blind hockey event at McArthur Island in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops and area residents with vision impairments can try out the sport of blind hockey at McArthur Island this coming Tuesday (Feb. 17).Canadian Blind Hockey is hosting a free event in p...
Feb 14, 2026 (Image Credit: Canadian Blind Hockey)
'Winter is back': Harper Mountain to reopen this Family Day long weekend
KAMLOOPS - An on-again, off-again ski season at Harper Mountain is back on once again.The Kamloops-area resort says all ski lifts will be open on Sunday and Monday (Feb. 15 and 16) of the Family Day l...
Feb 14, 2026 (Image Credit: Harper Mountain/Facebook)
City Council, Kamloops White Cane Club square off at annual blind bowling event
KAMLOOPS - Each February, the Kamloops White Cane Club holds its blind bowling event at Falcon Lanes, where it asks members of the sighted community to join them for an afternoon of friendly competiti...
Feb 13, 2026 (Image Credit: Curtis Goodrum / CFJC Today)
Annual ski run Sunday to mark eight years of Ryan Shtuka's disappearance in Sun Peaks
SUN PEAKS, B.C. - Tuesday (Feb. 17) will mark eight years since Ryan Shtuka went missing in the community of Sun Peaks. Every year since his disappearance, the Shtuka family and community members from...
Feb 13, 2026 (Image Credit: File photo CFJC Today)
Kamloops nonagenarian Frogge unearths 100-year-old Valentine's Day cards given to his mother by students
KAMLOOPS - Dick Frogge was a teacher at John Peterson junior high school in Kamloops for 25 years, a quarter-century tenure that began in 1969. He's 91 and living in Dallas, widowed and with time on h...
Feb 13, 2026 DICK FROGGE. (Image Credit: CFJC Today/Anthony Corea)
Fire chief concerned provincial changes to FireSmart funding may leave Kamloops high and dry
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has utilized FireSmart grant funding over the past several years to help clear up vegetation in green spaces around the community, while also offering grants to homeown...
Feb 13, 2026 Kamloops (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Local CUPW leadership says members should make their own decisions on tentative Canada Post deal
KAMLOOPS - Canada Post and CUPW have reached a tentative agreement on a contract with the national CUPW board. There still needs to be a vote from membership, which could happen at some point in May, ...
Feb 12, 2026
City grapples with high subsidy, low usage of Westsyde Pool and Fitness Centre
KAMLOOPS - At Tuesday's (Feb. 10) Committee of the Whole meeting, Kamloops council outlined a number of initiatives developed to possibly lower the tax rate in the city, including the need to increase...
Feb 12, 2026 Westsyde Pool (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
City of Kamloops seeking input on potential corridor improvements near Dufferin multiplex
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops is seeking feedback on conceptual designs for short-and-long-term improvements along the Hillside Drive and Copperhead Drive corridors to handle the anticipated influx ...
Feb 12, 2026 (Image Credit: City of Kamloops)
Man charged in connection with fatal November 2024 crash at Canco parking lot
KAMLOOPS - A man has been charged in connection with a November 2024 crash in a gas station parking lot on the North Shore that claimed the life of one person. Court records show Mark Earl Crick, who ...
Feb 12, 2026 Police tape around a Toyota Corolla in the Canco parking lot on Tranquille Road on Nov. 27, 2024. (Image Credit: Sydney Chisholm/CFJC Today File)
