Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops council looks to set guidelines for density around transit hubs
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops city council is currently working its way through an Official Community Plan (OCP) update. On Tuesday (Aug. 19), council's Committee of the Whole provided feedback on a number of t...
Aug 20, 2025
Scholarship established to ensure Rod 'Little Sky' Bandura's love of music lives on through Indigenous communities
KAMLOOPS - This September, Music for the People is set to return to the Kamloopa Arbour for the fourth edition of the event.In addition to the event on September 7, Margit Bandura has launched a schol...
Aug 20, 2025
Kamloops mayor and council offer differing opinions of recently released letter
KAMLOOPS -The City of Kamloops has published a letter sent by the eight councillors to Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson back in December of 2022. The letter is dated just over a month after the new council to...
Aug 20, 2025
UPDATE: Missing teen found safe
UPDATE (Aug. 21): KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say the 16-year-old teenage girl who was reported missing on Aug. 20, 2025, has been found and is safe. (Please note: for privacy considerations any previous...
Aug 20, 2025
Substance being sold in Kamloops carries 'extreme' risk of overdose, death: Interior Health
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health (IH) has issued an alert for increasingly toxic drugs being sold on the streets of Kamloops.In its alert enacted Wednesday (Aug 20), IH says a brown, granular substance bein...
Aug 20, 2025
Kamloops batter hits historic home run at Canada Summer Games
Layla Spencer of Kamloops made national baseball history at the Canada Summer Games earlier this week in St. John's, Nfld.Female baseball is making its games debut this year and host Newfoundland play...
Aug 20, 2025
Ministry building on the North Shore to reopen after caller utters threat
KAMLOOPS - A provincial government office on the Kamloops North Shore is set to open Wednesday (Aug. 20) after it was closed for part of the day Tuesday. The Ministry of Social Development and Poverty...
Aug 20, 2025
Wildfire service plane missions 'well below average' due to slow wildfire season
KAMLOOPS - The BC Wildfire Service's (BCWS) water bombers, skimmers and bird dogs have flown on more than 40 missions each so far this year, mostly across the province, fighting fires in Peachland, Va...
Aug 20, 2025
Kamloops family pays hefty price to get home from Italy, takes issue with Air Canada communication
KAMLOOPS - Customers are airing grievances in the aftermath of a labour dispute between Air Canada and its flight attendants. Carmela Corkle of Kamloops and her vacationing family were stranded in Rom...
Aug 19, 2025
John Tod Centre break-in a blow to Kamloops Y, Boys and Girls Club
KAMLOOPS - Tuesday morning (Aug. 19), the BC YMCA Kamloops put out posts on social media stating that programming at its John Tod Centre on the North Shore would be cancelled for the day due to a brea...
Aug 19, 2025
