Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Kamloops real estate market enters 2024 with cooling activity, potential for interest rate cuts
KAMLOOPS - Real estate activity in the Kamloops area cooled off last year, thanks to a blend of factors, including high interest rates, wildfires and low housing supply. Kamloops finished off 2023 wit...
Jan 11, 2024
Court decision on funds for Jessie Simpson delayed two more weeks
KAMLOOPS - It will be at least another two weeks before Jessie and Sue Simpson hear a court decision on the sale of Jessie's attacker's home. All this, nearly eight years after Jessie was brutally att...
Jan 11, 2024
Union fires salvo at Hudson's Bay after 'insulting' wage offer
KAMLOOPS - The union representing striking workers at the Aberdeen Mall Hudson's Bay location has issued a news release calling the company's wage offer insulting and its attitude appalling.Members of...
Jan 11, 2024
The Merritt RCMP detachment may have your lost money
MERRITT, B.C. - "Where did all of my money go?" Many of us ask ourselves that question in the days and weeks that follow the holidays. But Merritt RCMP say someone has an even better reason to ask tha...
Jan 11, 2024 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds)
Extreme cold warnings issued for Kamloops and surrounding highways
KAMLOOPS - Extreme cold warnings are in effect for Kamloops and surrounding highways.Starting Thursday (Jan. 11) and lasting through the weekend, Environment Canada says the North and South Thompson r...
Jan 11, 2024
New year, new snow for opening of 50th season at Harper Mountain
KAMLOOPS - Blue sky and fresh snow have made for a strong return to ski season at Harper Mountain. "We are really super excited because we had a lot of snow on the weekend and then again in the last c...
Jan 10, 2024
Kamloops cancer centre business case complete, details limited
KAMLOOPS - "Business plan is completed for Kamloops and Nanaimo."In a surprise announcement on Wednesday (Jan. 10), B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix has confirmed the business case for Kamloops, but di...
Jan 10, 2024
B.C.'s provincial snowpack extremely low, renewing summer drought concerns: report
VICTORIA - The B.C. River Forecast Centre's (BCRFC) first Snow Survey and Water Supply Bulletin of 2024 was released Wednesday (Jan. 10) and it paints a dire picture for the upcoming summer.According ...
Jan 10, 2024
Kamloops building sector sees drastic drop in '23 after record-breaking '22
KAMLOOPS - Construction permit value in the City of Kamloops regressed to near normal levels after a record-breaking year in 2022.Year-end totals published by the City of Kamloops Building Inspection ...
Jan 10, 2024
Advance voting begins in by-election for spot on Chase council
CHASE, B.C. - Voting begins Wednesday (Jan. 10) in the Village of Chase by-election.Residents are electing one councillor to fill the spot vacated by Ron Harder, who resigned last fall.The six candida...
Jan 10, 2024
