Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
'It gives answers': US-based dive team recounts vehicle recovery from North Thompson River in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The Oregon-based dive team which helped find a vehicle that plunged into the North Thompson River over the May long weekend said Wednesday's (Sept. 30) recovery operation had a bittersweet ...
Oct 2, 2026 (Image Credit: Adventures With Purpose/Facebook)
Kamloops' Tudor Village Laboratory to reopen after water damage
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health (IH) said the Tudor Village Laboratory in Kamloops will reopen Monday (Oct. 5) after a more than two-month-long closure due to water damage.The laboratory, located at 1315 S...
Oct 2, 2026
Blazers to face Rockets for first time since first-round sweep
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Blazers' veteran defenceman Isa Guram has not forgotten what happened in the 2026 WHL playoffs. The Kelowna Rockets swept the Blazers in four straight games in the opening round."Y...
Oct 2, 2026 Isa Guram (left) and Ty Bonkowski. (Image Credit: Tay Nguyen)
Lillooet Hospital ER to close Saturday
LILLOOET, B.C. - Lillooet Hospital and Health Centre's emergency department will be closed for eight hours on Saturday (Oct. 3), marking the community's sixth ER closure in 2026.Interior Health (IH) s...
Oct 2, 2026 (Image Credit: CFJC File photo)
Judge awards Neustaeter costs, damages after victory in Hamer-Jackson defamation suit
KAMLOOPS - A court saga that was spurred in part by a 2023 press conference and culminated in multiple claims of defamation by Kamloops mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson against Councillor Katie Neustaeter has...
Oct 2, 2026 File photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Large pile-burning projects planned across Kamloops Fire Centre
KAMLOOPS - (UPDATE 4:00 p.m.): Smoke may be visible from Kamloops for the next few months as a prescribed burn of between 120 and 150 debris piles at Harper Mountain Ski Hill could start as early as M...
Oct 2, 2026 File Photo (Image Credit: BC Wildfire Service)
Kamloops mother and son killed in crash near Chase
CHASE, B.C. - RCMP say a 47-year-old mother and her 11-year-old son from Kamloops were killed in a two-vehicle crash along the Trans-Canada Highway west of Chase on Thursday (Oct. 1) afternoon.Chase R...
Oct 2, 2026 File photo. (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Kamloops Film Society thankful for community contributions towards Paramount Theatre renovations
KAMLOOPS - Change is afoot at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Kamloops where the main lobby has been renovated following a lengthy fundraising campaign and lots of hard work. New carpets and floorin...
Oct 2, 2026 (Image Credit: Kamloops Film Society)
Impairment suspected in highway crash that injures two near Williams Lake
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A driver and a passenger had to be extricated from a vehicle after a collision on the Cariboo Highway south of Williams Lake. Williams Lake RCMP say officers responded to a head-...
Oct 2, 2026 File photo. (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Whundas hoping to draw crowd for high school football game under the lights
UPDATE: Westsyde director of football Cleve Maartman told CFJC on Friday morning that Kalamalka-Seaton of Vernon has forfeited, so there will be no game on Friday (Oct. 2).He said the Whundas have res...
Oct 1, 2026 Friday Night Lights (Image Credit: CFJC Today/Anthony Corea)
