Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Sentencing set for driver involved in 2023 McGill Road crash that killed TRU volleyball player
KAMLOOPS - Colval Abbinett, the driver involved in the fatal vehicle crash along McGill Road in 2023 that killed one member of the TRU WolfPack men's volleyball team was in provincial court Thursday (...
Jan 30, 2025
YKA Hot Chocolate Festival organizers aiming to build on event in its second year
KAMLOOPS -- Brandon Giddens of Logjam Coffee made a succulent sales pitch for the Banana Foster Hot Chocolate. "It tastes like you're sitting by a fire on a beach," he said. "It's one of the best thin...
Jan 29, 2025
Merritt's Sherry Peterson awarded King Charles III Coronation medal for unwavering community service
MERRITT, B.C. -Throughout Canada, the backbones of their communities have been getting honoured with the King Charles III Coronation Medal. In Kamloops, people such as 104-year-old WWII veteran John K...
Jan 29, 2025
North Shore resident helps Kamloops Mounties track down his stolen truck
KAMLOOPS - Local Mounties are crediting a North Shore man with helping recover his own stolen truck.According to Kamloops RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Crystal Evelyn, the man heard his truck being stolen fr...
Jan 29, 2025
RCMP seize drugs from vehicle in Valleyview bearing paper license plates
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say paper plates are for barbecues, not vehicle tags.In a news release issued Wednesday (Jan. 29), Cpl. Crystal Evelyn says officers were working in the 2100-block of East Tra...
Jan 29, 2025
KCBIA supports addition of security cameras to combat crime and social disorder
KAMLOOPS - The head of the Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association (KCBIA) says he supports a plan to add a system of security cameras as a way to try and respond to increasing crime and soc...
Jan 29, 2025
One person killed in crash on Highway 5 south of Valemount
VALEMOUNT, B.C. - One person is dead, and another was injured after a collision on Highway 5 south of Valemount. RCMP say they were called to the scene nearly 25 kilometres south of Valemount at aroun...
Jan 29, 2025
Kamloops council clears a path for hundreds of new rental units
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops city council was set to consider a trio of purpose built rental buildings on Tuesday (Jan. 28), as the community works toward housing targets imposed by the provincial government. ...
Jan 28, 2025
BC Cattlemen's Association bracing for potential U.S. tariffs on livestock exports
KAMLOOPS - Talk of the new U.S. administration bringing in tariffs on Canadian goods has ramped up this week. And if those tariffs are implemented, agriculture in this country would be heavily impacte...
Jan 28, 2025
Kamloops Airport passenger traffic steady in 2024
KAMLOOPS - It was level flight for Kamloops Airport in 2024, with its year-end passenger totals showing almost no change from the previous year.Statistics distributed to media on Tuesday (Jan. 28) sho...
Jan 28, 2025
