Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
TNRD extends 911 dispatch contract with RDCO while awaiting details, costs on NextGen service
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) has extended its contract for 911 services with the Regional District of Central Okanagan (RDCO) by another one year. It's the latest in a serie...
Feb 15, 2026 (Image Credit: CFJC Today File)
City of Kamloops has 'positive and productive' meeting on recovery housing, day spaces with B.C. Housing Minister
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops councillor says the city had a "positive and productive" meeting with B.C. Housing Minister Christine Boyle, which was focused on two main topics of discussion - recovery-oriente...
Feb 15, 2026 (Image Credit: CFJC File Photo)
Provincial deficit 'unsustainable' as budget comes Tuesday, B.C. official says
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government didn't have the opportunity to hint about what was coming in the provincial budget in its annual throne speech but both the premier and his finance minister ...
Feb 15, 2026
Fourth Avenue reopens as city preps for next phase of Kamloops Centre for the Arts construction
KAMLOOPS - Fourth Avenue has reopened between Seymour Street and St. Paul Street as crews have completed shallow utility work related to the Kamloops Centre for the Arts project. The one-block section...
Feb 14, 2026 Construction underway on Fourth Avenue between Seymour Street and St. Paul Street on Feb. 5, 2026. (Image Credit: Curtis Goodrum/CFJC Today)
Canadian Blind Hockey hosting first-ever try blind hockey event at McArthur Island in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops and area residents with vision impairments can try out the sport of blind hockey at McArthur Island this coming Tuesday (Feb. 17).Canadian Blind Hockey is hosting a free event in p...
Feb 14, 2026 (Image Credit: Canadian Blind Hockey)
'Winter is back': Harper Mountain to reopen this Family Day long weekend
KAMLOOPS - An on-again, off-again ski season at Harper Mountain is back on once again.The Kamloops-area resort says all ski lifts will be open on Sunday and Monday (Feb. 15 and 16) of the Family Day l...
Feb 14, 2026 (Image Credit: Harper Mountain/Facebook)
City Council, Kamloops White Cane Club square off at annual blind bowling event
KAMLOOPS - Each February, the Kamloops White Cane Club holds its blind bowling event at Falcon Lanes, where it asks members of the sighted community to join them for an afternoon of friendly competiti...
Feb 13, 2026 (Image Credit: Curtis Goodrum / CFJC Today)
Annual ski run Sunday to mark eight years of Ryan Shtuka's disappearance in Sun Peaks
SUN PEAKS, B.C. - Tuesday (Feb. 17) will mark eight years since Ryan Shtuka went missing in the community of Sun Peaks. Every year since his disappearance, the Shtuka family and community members from...
Feb 13, 2026 (Image Credit: File photo CFJC Today)
Kamloops nonagenarian Frogge unearths 100-year-old Valentine's Day cards given to his mother by students
KAMLOOPS - Dick Frogge was a teacher at John Peterson junior high school in Kamloops for 25 years, a quarter-century tenure that began in 1969. He's 91 and living in Dallas, widowed and with time on h...
Feb 13, 2026 DICK FROGGE. (Image Credit: CFJC Today/Anthony Corea)
Fire chief concerned provincial changes to FireSmart funding may leave Kamloops high and dry
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has utilized FireSmart grant funding over the past several years to help clear up vegetation in green spaces around the community, while also offering grants to homeown...
Feb 13, 2026 Kamloops (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
