Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops council to lobby for financial aid, new programs to train new airline pilots
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops city councillor is hoping his proposal to try and help train new pilots will land well at higher levels of governments.Bill Sarai, who is also the president of the Kamloops Airpo...
Nov 19, 2025
Tk'emlúps Kúkwpi7 calls for OneBC leader Brodie's resignation
KAMLOOPS - The chief of Tk'emlups te Secwepemc has told her community she wants the leader of a far-right provincial political party to resign. In a letter distributed to community members Tuesday (No...
Nov 18, 2025
Purses for Women Helping Women gathering supplies for holiday campaign
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops woman's annual charitable campaign, Purses for Women Helping Women, is ramping up in hopes of giving out more than 1,000 bags to women in need over the holidays. She's usually on...
Nov 18, 2025
Bell-ringers needed for Kamloops Salvation Army's Kettle campaign
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Salvation Army's annual Kettle campaign is underway, but the organization is still looking for bell-ringers to help collect donations. Volunteers are needed at donation kettles...
Nov 18, 2025
Kamloops council directs staff to find additional cuts after preliminary tax rate sits at 10.76%
KAMLOOPS - Last year, when Kamloops council wrapped up budget deliberations the projected tax increase for 2026 was 6.72 per cent. However, through a number of factors, that number now resides at 10.7...
Nov 18, 2025
Robinson of Kamloops lifts Grey Cup with Roughriders
KAMLOOPS - Ty Robinson of Kamloops made his way down the Green Mile to the steps of the Saskatchewan legislature on Tuesday (Nov. 18) in Regina, pinching himself along the Roughriders' championship pa...
Nov 18, 2025
Kamloops family out $7,900 due to trip cancellation during Air Canada strike seeks reimbursement
KAMLOOPS - Thousands of flights were either postponed or cancelled entirely during the strike action taken by Air Canada employees this past summer and some people still haven't been able to get their...
Nov 18, 2025
RCMP arrest man in connection with auto thefts in Kamloops, Shuswap
KAMLOOPS - Police say they have arrested a man believed to be responsible for property crime throughout Kamloops and Salmon Arm. According to a release, the arrest took place on November 4 after an 'i...
Nov 18, 2025
Man who shot Kamloops Mountie six times gains statutory release
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops man has been released after serving more than eight years in prison for the 2014 shooting of an RCMP officer in Batchelor Heights. As of October 24, 47-year-old Kenneth Knutson g...
Nov 18, 2025
MLA Stamer's private members bill on dash cameras receives pushback from NDP
VICTORIA - Ward Stamer has been advocating for mandating dash cameras in commercial vehicles since his days as the mayor in Barriere. Now in his first term for Kamloops -North Thompson, the Conservati...
Nov 18, 2025
