Municipal election
Frontline youth worker with over 20 years' experience to run for Chilliwack school board
CHILLIWACK - A frontline youth worker who locally worked for two decades in group homes that supported at-risk youth will run for the Chilliwack Board of Education in this fall's municipal election. According to a biography on the Trustees for Change website, Marina Garmon and her partner are concerned parents whose yo...
6h ago
Read More
Fatal head-on crash
16-year-old arrested for driving impaired in wrong-way crash that killed 2 on Vancouver Island
LANTZVILLE, BRITISH COLUMBIA - A 16-year-old Nanaimo girl has been arrested for alleged impaired driving after a head-on collision in Lantzville earlier this morning claimed the life of two men. Police and first responders were called to the southbound lanes of Highway 19 (Island Highway North) near Ware Road at 3 a.m....
10h ago
Read More
What's Trending
Death toll from flash floods rises with rescuers in Nepal and China working to find hundreds missing
1h ago
Summer holiday
Think Kelowna is just wine tours? The locals would like a word
Caglianone drives in six runs as Royals wallop Blue Jays 13-2
2h ago
Judge again blocks Trump mail ballot executive order in ruling that's likely to be swiftly appealed
2h ago
Fraser Valley
Provincial politics
Abbotsford South MLA Bruce Banman exits B.C. Conservative Party
ABBOTSFORD - Abbotsford South MLA has become the latest B.C. Conservative Party member to exit the caucus. In a statement Thursday afternoon (Aug. 27), Banman said his decision to leave the party and sit as an independent MLA came after numerous conversations with his constituents. He is now the sixth Conservative Part...
5h ago
Read More
Max rent increase
2027 max rent increase percentage to decrease slightly: B.C. government
VICTORIA - The province announced Thursday morning that the max allowable rent increase is slightly less than the current 2.3 per cent increase permissible for 2026. In a statement, the B.C. government says the 2027 max allowable rent increase will be 2.2 per cent, the seventh consecutive year where the allowable incre...
10h ago
Read More
Overnight fires
Hope firefighters tackle vehicle fire and homeless encampment fire overnight
HOPE - Firefighters in Hope quickly snuffed out two overnight fires earlier today, including one at a homeless encampment just off Highway 1.At 3:40 a.m., seven Hope firefighters and three engines extinguished a sedan fire on Othello Road. Their actions prevented it from spreading into nearby brush. Vehicle fire. (Imag...
10h ago
Read More
Municipal election
Entrepreneur, foster parent to seek seat on Chilliwack Board of Education
CHILLIWACK - A longtime Chilliwack resident, entrepreneur, and foster parent who served on the Chilliwack District Parent Advisory Council has announced he will run for school board this fall. A long-time resident since 1985, husband, father and foster parent for 35 years, Cary Moore and his wife raised 64 foster child...
11h ago
Read More
British Columbia
Third party could hurt Conservative Find
Third party could hurt Conservative Findlay's chances in Abbotsford-Mission riding
A British Columbia political commentator says a serious right-of-centre alternative could make it harder for provincial Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay to win a seat in the legislature in a byelection that must happen by next spring. Two sittin...
7h ago
Read More
Wasp attack warnings as swarms surge in B.C. amid warm weather and abundant food
VANCOUVER - When the wasp swarm attacked a climber on a trail north of Vancouver this week, her reaction was so severe she needed helicopter evacuation. But Maria Masiar, search manager with Lions Bay Search and Rescue, said the wasps weren't done, att...
8h ago
Read More
U.S. going backwards on vaccines, stoking unnecessary fears: B.C.'s top doctor
VANCOUVER - Vaccine misinformation promoted by United States officials is stoking unnecessary fears about vaccines proven to work, British Columbia's top doctor said Thursday. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said a recent executive order by ...
8h ago
Read More
Two dead, 16-year-old driver arrested for impaired driving, in B.C. wrong-way crash
NANAIMO - Police say a 16-year-old girl has been arrested for impaired driving after a wrong-way head-on crash that killed two people on a divided Vancouver Island highway. BC Highway Patrol says the Kia minivan she was driving and a Volkswagen Jetta c...
9h ago
Read More
Elections BC allows petition bid from La
Elections BC allows petition bid from Langley-Abbotsford MLA for Indigenous law's repeal to proceed
VICTORIA - Elections BC says it has granted in-principle approval for a petition to proceed seeking the repeal of British Columbia's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. The petition's proponent is Harman Bhangu, transportation critic f...
11h ago
Read More
Update: 22-year-old pilot deceased
Update: 22-year-old pilot deceased after plane crash north of Mission Wednesday night
RICHMOND - Canada's Transportation Safety Board has deployed a team to investigate what it calls a plane accident in British Columbia's Fraser Valley. A statement from the federal agency says the incident happened Wednesday near Mission, B.C., about 70...
11h ago
Read More
Canada
B.C. ends fire state of emergency after 20 days, thousands of evacuations, one death
BOSTON BAR - British Columbia has ended a provincial state of emergency that was imposed on Aug. 8 in response to wildfires that sent thousands of people fleeing and resulted in one death. The state of emergency had previously been scheduled to end on ...
5h ago
Read More
Banman is 6th B.C. Conservative to quit this month, calls leader Findlay unelectable
Bruce Banman, who gave the B.C. Conservatives official party status in the British Columbia legislature when he crossed the floor to join colleague John Rustad in 2023, has joined the rush out of the party's caucus to sit as an Independent, and urged o...
5h ago
Read More
Canada recruits dozens of foreign scientists, researchers, poaching many from U.S.
VANCOUVER - Canadian universities have recruited dozens of foreign scientists and researchers, many of them poached from prestigious U.S. institutions, in the first intake of a program to attract world-leading academics. The hiring of the 64 new recrui...
6h ago
Read More
Air Canada suspends two employees after RCMP drug trafficking investigation
MONTREAL - Air Canada says it has suspended the two employees arrested by the RCMP on Wednesday in connection with alleged cocaine and cannabis trafficking out of Montréal-Trudeau Airport. The airline would not comment further on the arrests. The RCMP ...
7h ago
Read More
Anti-immigrant speaker blocked from entering Canada in time for Hamilton event
OTTAWA - Austrian anti-immigrant speaker Martin Sellner says he was not granted an electronic travel authorization in time for a trip to Hamilton to speak at a nationalist conference. In a video posted on X, Sellner says Canada not granting him permiss...
7h ago
Read More
Wasp attack warnings as swarms surge in B.C. amid warm weather and abundant food
VANCOUVER - When the wasp swarm attacked a climber on a trail north of Vancouver this week, her reaction was so severe she needed helicopter evacuation. But Maria Masiar, search manager with Lions Bay Search and Rescue, said the wasps weren't done, att...
8h ago
Read More
World
Death toll from flash floods rises with rescuers in Nepal and China working to find hundreds missing
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) - The death toll from massive flash floods has risen to 469 in Nepal, police said Friday, as rescuers work to find hundreds of people still missing in the area on the Nepal-China border. The previous death toll was 3...
1h ago
Read More
Judge again blocks Trump mail ballot executive order in ruling that's likely to be swiftly appealed
A federal judge on Thursday halted - at least for now - attempts to implement President Donald Trump's executive order limiting mail voting. The move stalled the directive for a second time only about a week before the first mail ballots ...
2h ago
Read More
Controllers warned Marine One pilots about communication issues week before dual takeoff, NTSB says
Air traffic controllers in Washington and the pilots of President Donald Trump's helicopter met to discuss communication issues one week before a jet was allowed to take off just as Marine One left the White House, federal investigators said Thursday. ...
10h ago
Read More
Sports
Caglianone drives in six runs as Royals wallop Blue Jays 13-2
TORONTO - Jac Caglianone drove in six runs and Bobby Witt Jr. scored three times as the Kansas City Royals walloped the Toronto Blue Jays 13-2 on Thursday night. Caglianone had a two-run single in the second inning and had another in Kansas City's six...
2h ago
Read More
Sei Young Kim shoots 64 at TPC Boston for 1st-round lead in the FM Championship
NORTON, Mass. (AP) - Sei Young Kim capped a second-nine spree with an chip-in eagle and shot an 8-under 64 on Thursday at the TPC Boston to take the first-round lead in the FM Championship. Kim played a six-hole stretch in 6 under with four birdies and...
3h ago
Read More
Canada's Bianca Andreescu, Liam Draxl have final qualifying matches pushed at US Open
NEW YORK - Canada's Bianca Andreescu will have to wait until Friday to complete her mission of making the main draw of the U.S. Open tennis Grand Slam. The Mississauga, Ont., native was up 2-0 against Slovenia's Tamara Zidansek when their final round q...
3h ago
Read More