Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
BC Conservatives staying focused on leadership contest amid OneBC drama
KAMLOOPS - The BC Conservatives are funneling comment regarding the collapse of OneBC toward interim leader Trevor Halford, with MLAs staying focused on their own leadership contest. But with one righ...
Dec 15, 2025 Ward Stamer (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Kamloops designer eyeing brand growth after Project Runway Canada experience
KAMLOOPS - Delayne Dixon's home studio may be small, but the designs coming out of it have been on red carpets, in magazines, and now on Season 3 of Project Runway Canada. The latest season began airi...
Dec 15, 2025 (Image Credit: Kent Simmonds / CFJC Today)
Kamloops, Lytton, Clinton among B.C. communities setting new temperature records
LYTTON, B.C. - The atmospheric weather system that is bringing heavy rain to B.C.'s south coast has triggered a new wave of high-temperature records across the province. According to preliminary numbe...
Dec 15, 2025 (Image Credit: CFJC Today File Photo)
WATCH: Kamloops Jewish community gathers to mourn victims of Bondi Beach massacre
KAMLOOPS - The Jewish community in Kamloops organized outside of Kamloops City Hall Sunday (Dec. 14) for a vigil on the first day of Hanukkah in memory of the lives lost at an attack on Bondi Beach in...
Dec 15, 2025 (Image Credit: Credit: Curtis Goodrum / CFJC Today)
Downtown Kamloops YMCA temporarily closed due to 'urgent plumbing repair'
KAMLOOPS - The downtown branch of the Kamloops YMCA will be closed through to the end of day Tuesday (Dec. 16) due to an urgent plumbing repair.In a notice sent to members, Kamloops YMCA Centre Manage...
Dec 15, 2025 (Image Credit: CFJC Today File)
Budgetary impact of pipeline assessment changes could top $1.3M next year: TNRD
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) has written a second letter to the B.C. Ministry of Finance asking that proposed changes to the way gathering and transmission pipelines like Tr...
Dec 15, 2025 (Image Credit: CFJC Today File Photo)
Wind gusts of up to 90 km/h expected for Kamloops area Monday
KAMLOOPS - Strong winds are expected for Kamloops and area Monday (Dec. 15) afternoon. In a special weather statement, Environment Canada says a strong low-pressure system moving across the southern I...
Dec 15, 2025 File photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Pair of major highways close as a precaution; rainfall warning issued for Coquihalla Highway
MERRITT, B.C. - A pair of major highways connecting the Interior and the Lower Mainland were closed overnight as a precaution due to heavy rain in the forecast. B.C.'s Ministry of Transportation and T...
Dec 15, 2025 Highway 5 near Box Canyon Chain Up, looking north, at around 5:50 a.m. Monday (Image Credit: DriveBC)
Kamloops Jewish Community to gather for lighting of Menorah in honour of Sydney victims
KAMLOOPS - "Now it has become a vigil, a mourning vigil besides the first day of Hannukah," said Heidi Coleman, President of the Jewish Community Centre of Kamloops.The sunset this evening (Dec 14) ma...
Dec 14, 2025 File photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Merritt Mounties report overall reduction in cases, increase in mental health calls for 2025
MERRITT - Merritt Mounties are reporting a slight reduction in calls for service in 2025 compared to a year ago. Detachment Commander Staff Sergeant Josh Roda is set to present updated figures to coun...
Dec 14, 2025
