Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News

KAMLOOPS - Three people were taken to Royal Inland Hospital after a two-vehicle crash on Highland Road Friday (July 25) afternoon that led to a number of traffic woes for residents in Juniper Ridge. I...

KAMLOOPS - Interior Health has issued another drug alert for the Kamloops area warning of multiple contaminated street drugs.It said the drugs are being sold as down, dope, and fentanyl have tested po...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops NorthPaws won two of three games against the Kelowna Falcons this week to return to winning ways in the West Coast League.The NorthPaws beat the Falcons 6-2 in Thursday's (July...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops fire chief says the majority of a series of interface fires within city limits appear to have been caused by either campfires or cooking fires. That includes the 3-hectare gras...

LYTTON, B.C. - (UPDATE 12:30 p.m.): DriveBC says Highway 1 has reopened with a single lane of alternating traffic. Another update is expected to come at 1:00 p.m. You can find the latest updates from ...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue made quick work of a small-but-notable interface fire in Kenna Cartwright Park Thursday (July 24) night.KFR Assistant Chief Colin Tomm says crews responded to the fire ...

MERRITT, B.C. - Police in Merritt are investigating after firefighters put out a small but visible fire on the west end of the city overnight. Merritt Fire Chief Dave Tomkinson told CFJC Today that 19...

TAPPEN, B.C. - A BC Coroners Service inquest into the 2020 death of a man in the Shuswap will get underway in Burnaby in September. In a news release, the BC Coroners Service says the two-week-long in...

KAMLOOPS - It's a day that has been a long time coming, as B.C. ministers Bowinn Ma and Josie Osborne were in Kamloops to place the first shovel into the dirt at the home of the new Kamloops cancer ce...

KAMLOOPS - At a meeting on Thursday (July 24), the City of Kamloops Safety and Security Select Committee received an update into what areas of Kamloops are seeing increases and decreases in calls for ...