Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops DPAC extends safety push to limit vehicle traffic near schools
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops District Parent Advisory Council (DPAC) is joining a national group of communities taking part in a program intended to limit vehicle traffic near schools. The Kamloops DPAC is...
Feb 09, 2026 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
ASK Wellness prepares to welcome clients back to Crossroads after more than a year
KAMLOOPS - This week, ASK Wellness will begin welcoming residents back to the Crossroads after more than a year-long renovation of the old hotel site along Seymour Street. Once decrepit, the Crossroad...
Feb 09, 2026 The Crossroads (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Kamloops mayor mulling appeal after defamation suit dismissal
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson is considering an appeal after B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jacqueline Hughes ruled in favour of an anti-SLAPP application brought forward by Katie Neustaete...
Feb 09, 2026 Reid Hamer-Jackson (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Lillooet couple 'stunned' after $2.5 million Lotto 6/49 win
LILLOOET, B.C. - The winners of a $2.5 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot have come forward and claimed their prize.The BC Lottery Corporation (BCLC) says Rene L. and Brittany C. were "stunned" to learn they ...
Feb 09, 2026 (Image Credit: BC Lottery Corporation)
Kamloops RCMP looking for witnesses after Friday hit-and-run leads to serious injuries
KAMLOOPS - Police in Kamloops are asking for help in identifying a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run in a Sahali parking lot last Friday (Feb. 6) evening that left one person with serious, non-life-th...
Feb 09, 2026 The Save-On-Foods and the Shoppers Drug Mart at the Columbia Place Shopping Centre in Kamloops. (Image Credit: Kent Simmonds/CFJC Today)
Clearwater dog breeder guilty of animal cruelty breaches conditional sentence, will serve remaining time behind bars
CLEARWATER, B.C. - A Clearwater man who was found guilty of animal cruelty will spend time behind bars after breaching his conditional sentence multiple times. According to the BC SPCA, Kurtis Elliot ...
Feb 09, 2026 File photo (Image Credit: Image Credit: BC SPCA)
'They were brothers': Players, families remember 3 who died in Alberta highway crash
STAVELY - When Sawyer Smith thinks about teammates Caden Fine and JJ Wright, he remembers an instance of team tomfoolery on the golf course. He was with Cameron Casorso on the course when Fine and Wri...
Feb 09, 2026 Chris Wright, father of JJ Wright, looks at his son's stick, helmet and gloves before the start of the Stavely Mustang hockey game in Stavely, Alta., Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026 (Image Credit: Todd Korol/The Canadian Press)
New Pritchard water treatment plant to be commissioned in March
PRITCHARD, B.C. - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) says work on a new water treatment plant in Pritchard is nearing completion.In a brief statement, the TNRD said the new water treatment p...
Feb 08, 2026 Interior of the new new Pritchard water treatment plant. (Image Credit: TNRD)
City of Kamloops looking for two volunteers to serve on Arts and Culture Engagement Group
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops is looking for two people who are interested in serving on the Arts and Culture Engagement Group for a minimum two-year term.The city says the members of the public wit...
Feb 08, 2026 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Details released as Kamloops prepares to organize 12th annual Family Day Festival
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has released details about next Monday's (Feb. 16) Family Day Festival at the Tournament Capital Centre.The 12th edition of the annual festival will run 10:00 a.m. to 2...
Feb 08, 2026 (Image Credit: City of Kamloops)
