Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops council's Committee of the Whole has voted to ask Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson to resign.The vote came shortly after the provincially-appointed municipal adviser to Kamloops council de...

KAMLOOPS - The toxic drug crisis claimed eight more lives in Kamloops in the month of March. New figures released Tuesday (May 7) by the BC Coroners Service show 28 deaths due to illicit drugs in Kaml...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue (KFR) responded to a fire in a Brocklehurst cul-de-sac Tuesday (May 7) morning.In a post to social media, KFR says crews were en route to 989 Lincoln Court for a struct...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP are searching for a suspect related to Monday (May 6) night's shooting near the Ramada Inn in Sahali. RCMP say officers responded to the area of Frontage Road and Pemberton Te...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP members swarmed the area around a Sahali hotel Monday evening (May 6), responding to an apparent shooting.The incident happened just before 7:00 p.m. at the Ramada Inn, near t...

SKWLAX - It's mushroom picking season throughout many areas of the province and the Skwlx te Secwepemclecw band near Little Shuswap Lake is urging people seeking 'fire' morels to stop trespassing in t...

KAMLOOPS - The 23rd annual VW Turtle River Race was held on Sunday (May 5), when 2,000 plastic turtles raced down the South Thompson River to raise funds for the Kamloops Brain Injury Association (KBI...

KAMLOOPS - The coroner's inquest into the death of a man who died in the 2018 police shootout in Rose Hill has begun at the Kamloops Court House. On Monday morning (May 6), seven jury members assemble...

KAMLOOPS - Restoration crews have been on scene at St. Andrew's on the Square since a fire damaged portions of the historic church.Kamloops Fire Rescue has confirmed that the fire started on the outsi...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP are alerting the public of a conflict between local drug traffickers after three reported shootings across the Tournament Capital last week.The first shooting was reported to ...