Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the South Thompson and Nicola regions, including the cities of Kamloops and Merritt.As of Friday afternoon (July 7), the foreca...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops will soon receive a new community-led crisis response team for residents experiencing a mental-health or substance-use crisis.In a news release issued Friday (July 7) morning, the ...

KAMLOOPS - 2022 was a busier year for visitors in Kamloops than years past.According to the Tourism Kamloops economic report, a new record was set with more than 1.9 million visitors staying in the ci...

KAMLOOPS - With the two hottest months of the year still ahead, the province of B.C. has already lost more than 1-million hectares of forests to wildfires this year. That figure puts British Columbia ...

KAMLOOPS - It's rollout day - literally - for the city's new Curbside Organic Waste carts. Starting in Zone 3, and working through all five collection zones in Kamloops, the new carts will be delivere...

KAMLOOPS - A former Kamloops lawyer accused of killing a TRU employee in 2022 will have to wait until next week to learn if he gets bail.Bail submissions in the case of Rogelio 'Butch' Bagabuyo wrappe...

KAMLOOPS - UPDATE: BC Hydro says power has been restored to the vast majority of affected customers. EARLIER: BC Hydro crews are working to restore a power outage up the North Thompson Valley. Accordi...

KAMLOOPS - B.C.'s police watchdog says even though an off-duty RCMP officer may have been at fault for a serious collision near Clinton last winter, he won't be charged.The collision happened on Febru...

KAMLOOPS - Tk'emlups Rural RCMP are renewing a call for information for a man who's been missing for 12 years.In a news release issued Thursday (July 6), RCMP released another image of Fred Yellow Old...

KAMLOOPS - Tourism Kamloops says the city returned to pre-pandemic visitation in 2022, with nearly 2 million travellers making their way to the Tournament Capital last year.In a news release issued Th...