Category Archives: Kamloops and Area News
Annual Kamloops business survey shows crime loss, prevention costs nearing $2M in 2025
KAMLOOPS - The latest crime impact report compiled by the Kamloops business community shows losses from crime have already exceeded $1 million this year. The data is contained in the 2025 Impacts from...
Nov 12, 2025
Kamloops MP Caputo 'not losing sleep' over loss of two MPs
KAMLOOPS - The month of November has been shaky for the federal Conservative Party caucus as it faces the reality of a shrinking MP base. It started with Nova Scotia MP Chris D'Entremont crossing the ...
Nov 12, 2025
Kamloops-based volunteer group welcomes newest refugee family
KAMLOOPS - Refugees and Friends Together (RAFT), a group that has been sponsoring and settling refugees in Kamloops for the past five decades, has welcomed another family to the area.It says family of...
Nov 12, 2025
June 2026 trial date set for Kamloops man accused of killing his mother in 2023
KAMLOOPS - A trial date has been set for a Kamloops man charged in the 2023 killing of his mother.Jo-Anne Donovan, 57, was reported missing on March 13, 2023. Her son, Brandon Donovan, appealed public...
Nov 12, 2025
TRU president says unsanctioned residential school denialist event unwelcome on campus
KAMLOOPS - An event planned for the Thompson Rivers University campus Wednesday (Nov. 12) has been declared unsanctioned and unwelcome by the school's president.A poster circulating on social media pr...
Nov 11, 2025
CPKC says rock slide may have caused Kamloops-area derailment that spilled aviation fuel
SAVONA, B.C. - Rail operator Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) says a rock slide may be partially to blame for a derailment that resulted in the spill of more than 70,000 litres of aviation fuel alo...
Nov 11, 2025
Kamloops to hold one public budget information session as staff aim to wrap up engagement by December
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops will be holding an in-person information session next Wednesday (Nov. 19), so people will be able to peruse the provisional 2026 budget and ask questions of staff and c...
Nov 11, 2025
Neskonlith woman wins $100,000 award for contemporary visual arts career
KAMLOOPS - A Secwepemc woman who lives in Neskonlith is taking home $100,000 after winning a contemporary visual arts prize. Tania Willard is the latest recipient of the 2025 Sobey Art Award, which sh...
Nov 11, 2025
Summerland animal sanctuary 'devastated' after euthanizing animals due to avian flu
An animal sanctuary in B.C.'s interior says it is facing a "heartbreaking" experience after discovering a positive case of H5N1, also known as avian flu. Critteraid took to social media on Nov. 7, say...
Nov 11, 2025
Province, Stk'emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation mum on decade-old land claim case covering Kamloops, Sun Peaks
KAMLOOPS - The B.C. Ministry of the Attorney General said the province's ongoing position on a decade-old land claim that includes Kamloops and Sun Peaks has not changed, and that "private property ri...
Nov 11, 2025
