KAMLOOPS - It wasn't the best week to be in the Green Party camp, as the co-leaders were last minute exclusions from the federal leaders debates with the commission stating they have failed to meet two of the three needed criteria thresholds to participate. The Greens have historically done their best work on Vancouver...

KAMLOOPS - Historically, the NDP have fared quite well in the Kamloops riding, finishing second in six of the last eight federal elections. However, with federal polling numbers slipping for the New Democrats, the door has potentially been opened for the Liberals to gain ground across the Interior of British Columbia. ...

MERRITT, B.C. - School District 58 (Nicola-Similkameen) held a public budget meeting on Wednesday (April 16) night to discuss budgetary pressure affecting the district and the district's plan for the school year ahead. Much like other districts across British Columbia - including Kamloops where 76.5 FTE positions are o...

KAMLOOPS - The fourth day of Rogelio 'Butch' Bagabuyo's first-degree murder trial saw additional witnesses called in by the Crown, including RCMP officers involved in the initial call after the victims remains were discovered. The former Kamloops lawyer is charged in relation to the homicide of Mohd Abdullah, a lecture...

Advance voting for the 2025 federal election gets underway this long weekend.Canadians who are at least 18 years old can vote at their assigned polling station anytime from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on April 17, 18, 19 or 20.Where to voteThere are two ways to know where to advance vote.Those who are registered ahead of time sho...

SALMON ARM, B.C. - A couple was arrested after a man reportedly pointed a gun at another driver during a scene of road rage. Salmon Arm RCMP say a man reported the incident with a beige Cadillac Escalade SUV at around 4:00 p.m. Monday (April 14). According to police, the man reported a verbal exchange on the Trans Cana...

MERRITT, B.C. - A bag of expensive tools was handed over to the Merritt RCMP detachment in hopes of finding the proper owner. RCMP say the red Hilti tool bag given to the detachment on March 20 contained Dewalt power drills and Dewalt batteries. The bag, batteries and tools had specific markings on them. In a news rele...

SALMON ARM, B.C. - RCMP are renewing their call for help in finding a Salmon Arm man who's been missing for 23 years. Raymond "Ray" Kohout, a nurse, husband and father of three, was last seen at around 4:30 p.m. on April 29, 2002, riding a blue mountain bike on the Trans-Canada Highway between Salmon Arm and ...

SUN PEAKS, B.C. - A Sun Peaks-based developer has been tapped to build a 110-unit rental building in the resort municipality that former Mayor Al Raine referred to in his farewell note to the community prior to his passing last year.The Sun Peaks Mountain Resort Municipality said Wednesday (April 16) that Meranti Devel...

KAMLOOPS - Legal teams arrived at Kamloops Law Courts Wednesday morning (April 16) for the third day of Rogelio 'Butch' Bagabuyo's trial. He is facing a first-degree murder charge related to the killing of Thompson Rivers University lecturer Mohd Abdullah on March 11, 2022. With witness Wynand Rautenbach taking the sta...

KAMLOOPS - The federal Conservatives are looking to this week's two leaders' debates, as they need to see a bump in the polls, trailing the Liberals and Mark Carney nationally. Even while some polls have begun to shift toward the Tories in terms of the popular vote, the seat share tends to lean to the Liberals forming ...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Sports Council went before council Tuesday (April 16) to seek support for its idea of an European-style Christmas market. The market's goal is to attract holiday lovers to Kamloops for an 18-day Christmas celebration. "We aim to launch the Kamloops Christmas market to stimulate the local ec...

KAMLOOPS - It's still nearly two weeks until voting day, but preparation is well underway in Elections Canada returning offices in Kamloops and Salmon Arm.Kamloops-Thompson-Nicola Returning Officer Geoff Collier says Elections Canada will become one of the region's top employers on April 28, with about 800 people worki...

KAMLOOPS - It has been three-and-a-half years since the Kamloops mayor's Chain of Office was stolen by a burglar at City Hall.One city councillor believes it's time to get a new one.At Tuesday's (April 15) regular meeting, Councillor Margot Middleton proposed a new chain be added to proposals for a future budget cycle....

KAMLOOPS - A proposed 202-unit rental housing complex along Summit Drive in Upper Sahali has had its path to development cleared by Kamloops council.At Tuesday's (April 15) regular meeting, council was told the pair of six-storey apartment buildings would be erected across from the base of Springhill Drive, near the Su...

KAMLOOPS - Another year, another half ton of material removed from Kamloops beaches. The City of Kamloops says 165 residents removed 1,014 lbs of material on the second annual Clean the Beach Day on Sunday (April 13). Broken down, the city says 684 lbs of garbage and 330 lbs of metal were collected from the beaches at ...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops council has passed a motion calling on the provincial government to consider including the province's Interior as it expands involuntary care centres.The province is moving toward expanding opportunities to house and treat those with severe mental health conditions, even against their consent.The Ka...

KAMLOOPS - Federal polling still has the Mark Carney-led Liberals forming the next government after the April 28 election. While the Grits may find themselves back in government for a fourth consecutive term, they still trail in both of the Kamloops ridings to incumbent Conservatives. Six of the last eight federal elec...

KAMLOOPS - The second day of former Kamloops lawyer Rogelio 'Butch' Bagabuyo's trial saw an opening statement delivered by the Crown prosecution, along with a series of witness accounts. Bagabuyo is facing a first-degree murder charge in relation to the death of his former client, Mohd Abdullah. Abdullah's remains were...

KAMLOOPS - Alexa McMillan and Jillian Neufeld first bonded during the 2023 Boogie The Bridge half-marathon, a happenstance pairing that stuck together for about 15 kilometres and embraced at the finish line. They have since coined themselves "running besties" and have pushed each other to the Boston Marathon,...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP were seen in force on Monday evening (April 14) at the Hospitality Inn along Columbia Street West after a man was treated for stab wounds at the hospital.Police attended the hospital in response to the reported stabbing, discovering a victim who had allegedly been assaulted with a weapon on the...

KAMLOOPS - This week, the BC Cancer Foundation launched a $5-million fundraising campaign aimed at equipping the Kamloops cancer centre.The Kamloops cancer centre is scheduled to open to patients in 2028, with construction expected to begin this summer on the Westlands site of the Royal Inland Hospital campus."We ...

TK'EMLUPS - Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc officials say a highly visible fire in the area of Mount Paul Road Monday afternoon (April 14) came from the community's landfill. Kamloops Fire Rescue crews were called around 2:30 p.m. Monday and arrived to find a thick, black plume of smoke billowing from the Stswekst...

KAMLOOPS - The Telus Data Centre in Kamloops will feature an artificial intelligence (AI) factory. In a news release issued Tuesday (April 15) morning, Telus announced its first Sovereign AI Factories will be located in Kamloops and Rimouski, Quebec. The Canadian telecommunications company says its data centres, includ...

KAMLOOPS - At the quarter point of 2025, construction value and permits issued in the Kamloops building sector are nearly identical to the same time frame in 2024. However, the number of new housing units is drastically down. New numbers released by the City of Kamloops Building Inspection Division show nearly $47.5 mi...

KAMLOOPS - Since a public health emergency was declared in response to rising rates of opioid-related overdoses, more than 16,000 people have died in B.C. Efforts to combat the crisis haven't slowed the climbing fatality rates. Ahead of the nine-year anniversary of the overdose emergency being declared, CFJC spoke with...

KAMLOOPS - Former Kamloops lawyer Rogelio (Butch) Bagabuyo took notes and watched intently on the first day of his trial on Monday (April 14) at the Kamloops Law Courts. He pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder of his former client, Mohd Abdullah, who was reported missing on March 11, 2022. Abdullah's body was ...

KAMLOOPS - Approximately 40 supporters gathered at Riverside Park on Friday evening (April 11) to meet with the leader of the People's Party of Canada, Maxime Bernier. It's the third straight election that Bernier has stopped in Kamloops, and so far in the 2025 campaign, he is the only leader who has campaigned in the ...