Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
UPDATE: Coquihalla reopens between Hope and Merritt; Highway 3 remains closed
KAMLOOPS - UPDATE (4:00 p.m.): The Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt has reopened after a roughly 20-hour closure due to flooding. DriveBC says the highway was reopened in both directions at...
Dec 10, 2025 Highway 5 southbound at Zopkios Rest Area near the Coquihalla Summit, looking north, as seen around 9:45 p.m. on Dec. 10, 2025. (Image Credit: DriveBC)
Kamloops Blazers deliver at RIH, with newborn Theodore among Teddy Bear recipients
KAMLOOPS - Fans brought stuffed animals, tuques, mittens and scarves to the rink on Friday (Dec. 5) when the Kamloops Blazers hosted the Penticton Vees on Teddy Bear Toss Night at Sandman Centre. When...
Dec 10, 2025 (Image Credit: Image credit: CFJC Today/Anthony Corea)
Final collection days for Centre for Seniors Information holiday gifting campaign
KAMLOOPS - Isolation is often named as a top concern for seniors who don't have family or friends nearby to regularly visit with. It's why the Kamloops Centre for Seniors Information organizes Operati...
Dec 10, 2025 (Image Credit: Kent Simmonds / CFJC Today)
Province-wide enforcement push nabs nearly 200 intoxicated drivers
KAMLOOPS - BC Highway Patrol and BC RCMP say they checked more than 52,000 vehicles over the past weekend for their Light Up the Province campaign, and wound up issuing more than 600 tickets while cat...
Dec 10, 2025 Vehicles waiting at a Kamloops RCMP and BC Highway Patrol check point during Saturday's (Dec. 6) Light Up the Province campaign. (Image Credit: Curtis Goodrum / CFJC Today)
Minister of Housing, Kamloops council don't agree on path forward for Fortune site
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops city council threw some jabs at the B.C. government on Tuesday (Dec. 9) - more specifically at the Ministry of Housing led by Christine Boyle. Council's anger comes with regards to...
Dec 10, 2025 Subject property and Leigh and Fortune, file photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Kamloops United Church ready for Christmas back home
KAMLOOPS - Nearly 16 months since a devastating fire ripped through the Kamloops United Church, the congregation has returned home to their downtown parish. Just in time for the Christmas season, the ...
Dec 10, 2025 United Church (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Heavy rain, snowfall expected on Coquihalla, Trans-Canada Highways amid atmospheric river
KAMLOOPS - While most of the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland are bracing for another atmospheric river, the Kamloops area is being warned about the potential for heavy rain and snow on higher elevati...
Dec 10, 2025 (Image Credit: Kent Simmonds / CFJC Today)
CSRD opens taps on new Scotch Creek water system
SCOTCH CREEK, B.C. - Officials in the North Shuswap are celebrating the completion of a public works project seven years in the making.The $4.1-million Scotch Creek Water System expansion was officall...
Dec 10, 2025 (L to R) CSRD Electoral Area F Director Jay Simpson, Manager Utility Services Tim Perepolkin and CSRD Board Chair Natalya Melnychuk. (Image Credit: Columbia Shuswap Regional District)
AAP discussion on 3 projects, including Kamloops RCMP headquarters, pushed further forward
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops council won't consider its next set of potential alternative approval processes (AAPs) for capital borrowing until labour strife at Canada Post is finally put to rest. At its regul...
Dec 10, 2025 Proposed new RCMP headquarters (Image Credit: City of Kamloops)
More units added to rental housing development at former North Shore car dealership
KAMLOOPS - Plans have changed for a previously proposed rental housing development on the North Shore. During Tuesday's (Dec. 9) regular meeting, Kamloops council approved a 150-unit residential renta...
Dec 10, 2025 Total Concept Developments
