Dylan Armstrong is an Olympic bronze medallist shot putter and a throws coach with a proven track record. He helped Ethan Katzberg become an Olympic and world champion in hammer throw, and Greg Stewart become a Paralympic Games champion in shot put. Armstrong recently accepted two international recruits into his stable...

KAMLOOPS - It is Canadian military history, with a Kamloops lens. A series of tours hosted by the City's Kamloops Museum and Archives over the next week and a half gives residents a chance to learn more about the local men and women who served. "We try to talk a little bit about the first and second World Wars, th...

KAMLOOPS - It's now been three years since Shannon White, a 32-year-old woman living in Kamloops, went missing after not showing up for work. Extensive searches have been conducted throughout the Kamloops area, involving RCMP, the Serious Crimes Unit, and the Search Recovery and Detection K9's of BC. Police have previo...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops residents can look to the sky this Remembrance Day, as the city is going to have an official military flyover this year. An official military fly past wasn't originally on the agenda. Last year marked the final fly over from the 419 'Moose' Squadron, which underwent changes to its programming and th...

KAMLOOPS - Semi trucks will not be making their way downtown Kamloops for the next six months. During a recent closed meeting, Kamloops council approved a six-month pilot project that will remove truck route designations on Lansdowne and Seymour Streets from Nov. 15, 2024, to May 15, 2025. In a news release issued Frid...

VERNON - The man accused of second-degree murder in Lumby has opted for a trial by judge and jury. The B.C. Prosecution Service confirmed Vitali Stefanski appeared in Vernon court Wednesday, Oct. 31, to formally enter an election for a trial before a Supreme Court judge and jury. His trial will also involve a prelimina...

MERRITT, B.C. - The emergency department in Merritt will be unavailable to start November. Interior Health states the emergency department at Nicola Valley Hospital will be temporarily closed from 7:00 a.m. Friday (Nov. 1) to 8:00 a.m. Saturday. A reason was not provided in a news release issued Thursday evening. All o...

KAMLOOPS - The Royal Canadian Legion's Poppy Campaign is underway across the city, with donations being gathered for veteran support initiatives. The annual campaign is focused on local Legion branches, which means the money stays in Kamloops. Donations are held in trust at the branch level, which allows the Legion to ...

KAMLOOPS -- Chad Jacobson is entering his second season as head coach of the TRU WolfPack men's basketball team.He's putting his stamp on a Canada West program that was run for 13 years by his predecessor, Scott Clark, and is flooring a team that has post-season aspirations. CFJC Today caught up with the WolfPack ahead...

KAMLOOPS - B.C. is in the third week of rolling out influenza and COVID-19 vaccines. The province is seeing an uptick this year, including right here in Kamloops. Pharmacies administered almost 82,000 vaccinations the first day they became available on October 15."The updated vaccines are available," said Dr....

KAMLOOPS - Harry Fairbrother used to read the newspaper every day. For Fairbrother and many other avid newspaper readers, the loss of Kamloops This Week - the city's last print news outlet - was hard to handle. "I was lost, just there was a whole big hole in my life," Fairbrother told CFJC News. Deanna DeCicc...

KAMLOOPS - This weekend, Kamloops residents will lace up their running shoes for Nicholas' Run for Youth Mental Health. It's the second year of the 5-kilometre walk/run event, which was founded in memory of Nicholas Zhou, a young Kamloops man who struggled with depression and passed away at age 19. The event raises awa...

KAMLOOPS - A court proceeding to hear evidence in Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson's defamation lawsuit against a Kamloops councillor has been delayed until January.Hamer-Jackson filed the suit against Councillor Katie Neustaeter on June 12, 2023, alleging statements she made about his conduct and his interactions with her fat...

KAMLOOPS - There have been flirtatious tastes of winter conditions at the peaks of highway passes this fall, but the first notable snowfall of the season for the southern Interior could be around the corner. Environment Canada notes snowfall is expected for highway passes around Kamloops from 5:00 a.m. Friday (Nov. 1) ...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A pair of prescribed burns will make smoke visible near the City of Williams Lake and along Highway 5 from Merritt to Hope. The BC Wildfire Service says it will carry out a 23-hectare pile burning on Fox Mountain east of Williams Lake in order to reduce the wildfire hazard and restore local Dougla...

KAMLOOPS - One of the oldest preschools in the province, run out of the Kamloops United Church building, is set to close. Administrators and the board of the preschool say the move was unexpected, while church leadership says the decision was made as it reviewed its programming following recent fire damage to the build...

KAMLOOPS - The mayor of Kamloops has officially been locked out of his office. Earlier this month, city council ordered Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson's office moved to an unused boardroom in the basement of city hall, citing multiple open worksafe investigations against Hamer-Jackson. "He bullies and harasses, and staf...

MERRITT AND WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The B.C. Wildfire Service is notifying residents of Merritt and Williams Lake that it will carry out fuel burning near those cities starting Friday (Nov. 1).The project in the Nicola Valley will take place along Lindley Creek Road, 3.5 kilometres west of Merritt.Crews will begin burnin...

KAMLOOPS - Construction has begun on the new fire hall for Monte Creek.The Thompson Nicola Regional District (TNRD) says design work on the new hall was completed over the summer and construction on the property at 1257 Hook Road began earlier this month.In May, the TNRD Board of Directors awarded a $1.045-million cont...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops residents are asked to be on the lookout for thousands of dollars in stolen archery equipment. In a post to social media, the Kamloops Bowbenders - the archers of the Kamloops Target Sports Association - say a police file is open after surveillance video captured images of two theft suspects from th...

KAMLOOPS -- Joshua Slager won three fights in three days at the Boxing BC Provincial Championship earlier this month in Richmond. He claimed the B.C. title in the men's 154-pound division and earned an invite to represent the province in November at the Boxing Canada Elite National Championship in Sarnia, Ontario. CFJC...

KAMLOOPS - A new report authored by Food Banks Canada is showing food bank usage has reached the highest number in Canadian history, with more than two million monthly visits reported this year. The Hunger Count 2024 report shows there has been a 90 per cent increase compared to pre-pandemic years. Those who need emerg...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops MLAs-elect Peter Milobar and Ward Stamer will be headed to Victoria as members of the opposition for the next legislative session, possibly before Christmas. "The premier's indicating that he would like to be back in [session] relatively soon," said Milobar, Kamloops Centre MLA-elect. &quo...

KAMLOOPS - The president of Thompson Rivers University says the institution is making some significant changes as it grapples with new federal rules affecting international student enrolment.Earlier this year, the federal government announced caps on international student permits and introduced new rules around post-gr...

VERNON, B.C. - The Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for the Vernon-Lumby riding believes his name could still be on the ballot in the future.Dennis Giesbrecht, the local Conservative candidate, lost to the NDP's Harwinder Sandhu in the 2024 Provincial General Election. Sandhu earned 11,836, votes in the local ridin...

KAMLOOPS - New Gold, the international mining company that operates the New Afton mine just west of Kamloops, says it has hit a major milestone in its effort to extend the mine's life.In a news release issued Tuesday (Oct. 29), New Gold says the massive C-zone block cave is now in commercial production - well ahead of ...

OTTAWA - A final report into missing children and unmarked graves at residential schools is calling on the federal government to create an Indigenous-led national commission with a 20-year mandate to investigate missing and disappeared Indigenous children.Kimberly Murray, who has been serving as Canada's special interl...

UPDATE (11:45 a.m.): Power has been restored.EARLIER: LOGAN LAKE, B.C. - The District of Logan Lake is without power Tuesday (Oct. 29) morning. BC Hydro says 1,592 customers from Logan Lake and east along Highway 97D to Lac Le Jeune have been without power since 9:47 a.m. Tuesday. The outage is being blamed on a tree d...