KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers gave up ground in the Western Hockey League (WHL) playoff race. The Blazers fell to the ninth-place Seattle Thunderbirds at home Tuesday (March 4) night 4-1. The WHL's leading goal scorer Cameron Schmidt scored on a breakaway to get the Thunderbirds on the board early in the first period...

KAMLOOPS - Teenage Dream, a 2010 dance-pop number by Katy Perry, was the anthem last season. This year, the Westsyde Whundas' senior boys basketball team jams to Call Me Maybe, a 2012 Carly Rae Jepsen joint. The tracks are similar and of the same era, but distinct with unique qualities - and the same can be said about ...

KAMLOOPS - Logan Stankoven is scheduled to play his second NHL game in Vancouver on Wednesday [March 4], when his Carolina Hurricanes take on the Canucks at Rogers Arena. Stankoven was held off the scoresheet on March 28, 2024, when his Dallas Stars vanquished the Canucks 3-1. Marty Hastings of CFJC Today spoke to Sta...

PENTICTON - A pair of curlers with ties to Kamloops have won the 2026 B.C. senior men's curling title.Former Kamloops resident, Jim Cotter, and Trevor Miyahara, who lives in the city, went a perfect 8-0 at the Penticton Curling Club, which hosted the event Feb. 24 to March 1. The Cotter foursome, which also featured Pe...

KAMLOOPS - Tournament Capital curling was the winner at the Brier on Sunday [March 1] in St. John's, Nfld. Four River City rock throwers took to the pebbled ice on national television, with skip Matt Dunstone and his heavily favoured Manitoba rink vanquishing Team B.C. and its three Kamloops Curling Club (KCC) members...

KAMLOOPS - The KIJHL playoff brackets are set and it'll be the Kamloops Storm and Chase Heat who will square off in round one of the post-season, starting this Friday (March 6). It'll be the first playoff meeting between these two geographic foes since the 2021-22 KIJHL season. Kamloops won that first-round playoff ser...

KAMLOOPS - Josh Evaschesen was the superhero the Kamloops Blazers needed as his 30th goal of the season helped snap a six game losing streak Saturday (Feb. 28) night. The Blazers beat the Vancouver Giants 4-3 on Be a Superhero night in support of Children's Miracle Network at the Sandman Centre. The result leaves Kamlo...

KAMLOOPS - It was an historic Saturday (Feb. 28) night at the Tournament Capital Centre as the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack punched their ticket to their first-ever national championship tournament later this month. The WolfPack beat the defending national champion Manitoba Bisons 3-0 (25-23, 25-13, 25-18) in a ...

LANGLEY, B.C. - The Westsyde Whundas will have to settle for fourth place at the AA girls basketball provincial championships.The 13th ranked Whundas lost 94-44 to the second-ranked Credo Christian Kodiaks from Langley in a bronze medal game Saturday (Feb. 28) afternoon. Meena Litt led the way for Westsyde with 16 poin...

EVERETT, WASH. - The Kamloops Blazers have slumped to their sixth defeat in a row after they dropped an 8-3 decision to the league-leading Everett Silvertips Friday (Feb. 27) night in Washington State.The Blazers led 2-1 midway through the first period at the Angel of the Winds Arena before the Silvertips took control ...

KAMLOOPS - Raya Surinx and the Manitoba Bisons weren't going to go down without a fight. The two-time reigning U SPORTS women's volleyball player of the year set a Canada West playoff record 38.5 points, as the Bisons beat the WolfPack 3-1 (25-21, 23-25, 25-20, 25-20) to even their best-of-three series at 1-1. Surinx, ...

KAMLOOPS - Matt Dunstone was shattered after dropping the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials final to Brad Jacobs in November in Halifax. The Kamloops skip tended to his wounds during a recent seven-week break and said he feels ready to chase the Tankard at the Montana's Brier, which is scheduled to run from Friday (Feb....

SALMON ARM, B.C. - The top junior hockey franchise in the Shuswap is under new ownership, but similar guidance. On Thursday (Feb. 26), the Salmon Arm Silverbacks announced the hockey club has been acquired by Forge Sports Group Inc. (FSG). The British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) announced its board of governors appro...

LANGLEY, B.C. - (UPDATE 12:30 p.m.): The Westsyde Whundas are off to the final four of the AA Senior Girls BC School Sports High School Basketball Provincial Championships. The No. 13 Whundas knocked off No. 5 Pacific Christian of Victoria 78-69 in a quarter-final game Thursday (Feb. 26) night. That follows Westsyde's ...

KAMLOOPS - Maria Dancheva led the TRU WolfPack with 16.5 points in a 3-2 victory over the Manitoba Bisons in Match 1 of a best-of-three women's Canada West volleyball quarter-final series on Thursday [Feb. 26] at the Tournament Capital Centre. "I actually loved the crowd," said Dancheva, the 6-foot-5 Bulgari...

KAMLOOPS - Lucas Taylor does not want to grow old, look back and have regrets. So, last year, at age 31, he began his professional mixed martial arts career, a 5-foot-6, 155-pound bulldog from Kamloops who aims to pressure and maul opponents. "It's not any secret that when I go out to fight, I'm going out to win ...

KAMLOOPS - After a pair of weekend setbacks at the hands of the Kelowna Rockets, the Kamloops Blazers find themselves on a five-game losing streak. There is no panic in the dressing room, but with the playoffs looming, there is concern. CFJC Today brings us this report.

KAMLOOPS - A trio of Thompson Rivers University (TRU) WolfPack volleyball players earned year-end honours from Canada West. On the women's side, WolfPack outside hitter Rida Erlalelitepe and setter Libby Meldrum were named Canada West Second Team All-Stars. Erlalelitepe finished the 2025-26 season with 216 kills, good ...

KAMLOOPS - They have earned the attention that comes along with breaking new ground. Whether the TRU WolfPack women's volleyball team is ready for the spotlight will be determined this week during a best-of-three series 21 years in the making. "I feel like we don't see ourselves as the underdogs any more," s...

KAMLOOPS - The Westsyde Whundas are off to the 2026 BC School Sports AA Girls Basketball Provincial Tournament. Their journey included a second-place finish at Okanagans, losing to JL Jackson of Salmon Arm in the final. It's a team that relies on its multi-sport athletes for success - every player having their own uniq...

KAMLOOPS - Iyin Aina of the Sa-Hali Sabres remembers well the pain of 2025, a one-point loss to the Mennonite Educational Institute Eagles of Abbotsford in the AAA B.C School Sports Girls Basketball Championship final. "We have a lot to prove," Aina said. "But we're not going to take what happened last y...

KAMLOOPS - The host society for the 2026 55+ BC Games in Kamloops is calling for hundreds of residents to help carry out the week-long event as volunteer registration opens.According to a news release distributed Tuesday (Feb. 24), volunteers are needed for administration, event-day venue support, hospitality, leadersh...

KAMLOOPS - It's been three weeks since junior hockey players Cameron Casorso, JJ Wright and Caden Fine were involved in a deadly highway collision with a semi truck on their way to hockey practice in southern Alberta. Casorso and Wright, who were playing for the Southern Alberta Mustangs, have ties to the community as ...

KELOWNA - The Kamloops Blazers came up short once again against the Kelowna Rockets, as they dropped a 4-2 decision Saturday (Feb. 21) night at Prospera Place. Nathan Behm and Jordan Keller had the goals for the Blazers but it was Tij Iginla who once again stole the show with a pair of goals. The son of former Blazers ...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers came back and secured a point but fell to the Kelowna Rockets 3-2 in overtime at home Friday (Feb. 20). Trailing 2-0 going late into the second period, Nathan Behm struck twice for the Blazers in 1:26 to tie the game 2-2. Both of Behm's goals came from above the circles: a slapshot from ...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops product Raiya Matonovich showed out at the 2026 Great Northwest Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field championships earlier this week. The Sa-Hali Secondary grad recorded three first place finishes and was named Female Track Athlete of the Meet. Matonovich finished first in the women's 800m wit...

LANGLEY, B.C. - Kamloops Blazers forward JP Hurlbert had a goal and an assist but his Team West dropped a 5-4 decision to Team East at the 2026 WHL Prospects Game Wednesday (Feb. 18) night at the Langley Events Centre. Hurlbert, the leading scorer in the Canadian Hockey League with 84 points from 55 games, snapped a qu...

KAMLOOPS - A pair of Thompson Rivers University (TRU) WolfPack men's basketball players have earned year-end honours from Canada West. Westsyde Secondary alumnus Cason Scott was named to the Canada West All-Rookie Team for the 2025-26 season, while third-year guard Jayden Stephens was named to Canada West's Second Team...