Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
One person arrested after weapons report on Kamloops North Shore
KAMLOOPS - One person was arrested after a notable police presence on the North Shore Thursday (Feb. 29) morning. Cpl. Crystal Evelyn, Kamloops RCMP spokesperson, confirmed to CFJC Today officers resp...
Feb 29, 2024
Special public avalanche warning blankets most of B.C.'s Southern Interior
KAMLOOPS - A special public avalanche warning was issued for most of B.C.'s Southern Interior Thursday (Feb. 29) and will last throughout the weekend.Avalanche Canada says new snowfall brought on by r...
Feb 29, 2024
Coquihalla Highway remains closed between Hope and Merritt as crews work to manage road conditions
MERRITT, B.C. - The Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt is nearing a 24-hour closure.After a vehicle incident closed the stretch of Highway 5 at around 2:40 p.m. Wednesday (Feb. 28), DriveBC s...
Feb 29, 2024
TRU lecture series brings Canadian trailblazer to Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University's Common Voices Lecture Series will welcome a Canadian trailblazer to the campus on Thursday (Feb. 29). Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut and th...
Feb 28, 2024
Curtain rises on 28th annual Kamloops Film Festival Thursday night
KAMLOOPS - On Thursday night, the Kamloops Film Society will be rolling out the red carpet along Fifth Avenue as the Kamloops Film Festival kicks for its 28th edition. With more than 40 different film...
Feb 28, 2024
Parkcrest Elementary students mark Pink Shirt Day in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Pink Shirt Day began in 2007, after David Shepherd and Travis Price, Grade 12 students in Nova Scotia, bought and distributed 50 pink shirts in response to seeing a Grade 9 student being bu...
Feb 28, 2024
Devastating 2023 wildfire season presents possibility of spring holdover fires
KAMLOOPS - The 2023 wildfire season was the most destructive in British Columbia's recorded history. More than 2.84 million hectares of land was burned by 2,245 individual wildfires across the provinc...
Feb 28, 2024
Former president and CEO Halpenny appointed Interior Health board chair
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health's former president and CEO is its new board chair.In a news release issued Wednesday (Feb. 28), B.C. Minister of Health Adrian Dix announced Dr. Robert Halpenny will take on...
Feb 28, 2024
Little Fort house fire takes life of elderly occupant
LITTLE FORT, B.C. - An elderly Little Fort resident has lost his life in a house fire.In a news release, Blackpool Fire Rescue Chief Mike Savage says crews from Little Fort and Blackpool were called t...
Feb 28, 2024
Kamloops man charged with arson in downtown vehicle fire
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops man has been charged with arson after a vehicle was set on fire last week.Kamloops Fire Rescue members called RCMP to the scene of a burning van in the 700-block of St. Paul Stre...
Feb 28, 2024
