Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - With summer approaching, the City of Kamloops is outlining its heat response plan. The city activates its heat alert protocol when Environment Canada issues a heat warning for the city. Hea...

KAMLOOPS - This week, the Kamloops-Thompson School Board approved some adjustments to the existing catchment plan to which schools students living in Sahali and Aberdeen neighbourhoods will be assigne...

KAMLOOPS - An early morning fire at the city's busiest landfill brought out a large response from Kamloops Fire Rescue (KFR). Just before 6:30 a.m. Wednesday (May 14), crews were called out to the Mis...

KAMLOOPS - The province says Kamloops has lost 11 lives to the toxic drug crisis during the first three months of the year - representing a significantly slower pace of fatalities than in recent years...

SICAMOUS, B.C. - The R.W. Bruhn Bridge in Sicamous reopened one day after a peaceful blockade began. DriveBC reported that the stretch of Highway 1 through Sicamous reopened shortly before 6:00 p.m. T...

UPDATE (11:30 a.m.): In another email to parent, Nixon says KFR Deputy Fire Chief Ryan Cail told the district that the Mission Flats Landfill fire is being held and it's now safe for staff and student...

LILLOOET - Residents in the Lillooet area are navigating yet another spell without emergency room access, the sixth this month. Interior Health says the ER at the Lillooet Hospital and Health Centre w...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops city council has tentatively approved a new fee schedule that will see the cost of transit fare gradually increase by 50 per cent over the next four years. The cost of a single far...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops-Thompson Board of Education approved new catchment areas Monday (May 12) to go along with the addition of Snne Elementary School in Pineview Valley. As of Sept. 1, 2026, elemen...

TK'EMLUPS - Kamloops RCMP are executing a trio of search warrants in Tk'emlups te Secwepemc Tuesday (May 13) morning. Members of the Kamloops detachment and other agencies are carrying out the warrant...