Fatality
60-year-old man deceased after accident at Harrison Mills campground
HARRISON MILLS - A spokesperson for the Agassiz RCMP detachment has confirmed the tragic death of a 60-year-old man after an accident at a local campground. Agassiz RCMP spokesperson Staff Sgt. Darryl Peppler says police were called to a campground in Harrison Mills on Friday, July 31, at 5:59 p.m., after getting a rep...
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Shuttered business
Tenancy termination notice appears outside Chilliwack games business
CHILLIWACK - A landlord tenancy termination notice has been posted outside a shuttered games business in Chilliwack. While Dragon Guild appears to have been closed for several months based on comments from social media users, a landlord termination notice dated July 24, 2026, has been posted outside the store at 6640 V...
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More than 600 tickets, some driving bans issued as drivers attend B.C. music festival
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Summer holiday
Think Kelowna is just wine tours? The locals would like a word
Canada Post mail delivery
Canada Post suspends mail delivery in Chilliwack, issues yellow alerts for 3 area cities
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U.S. antisemitism envoy calls on Canada to restrict visas, expand terrorism listings
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Fraser Valley
Public works improvements
Rural intersection project in Chilliwack underway
CHILLIWACK - Construction on a project to widen a Chilliwack intersection near Keith Wilson Road is expected to get underway today. According to its website, the City of Chilliwack says the Chadsey Road construction project at Keith Wilson Road in Greendale will involve extending a culvert, widening the intersection, a...
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Pathway to recovery
Chilliwack MLAs welcome new 15-bed women's recovery house
CHILLIWACK - Two Chilliwack MLAs were on hand for the grand opening of a 15-bed women's recovery house in Chilliwack last week. Chilliwack-Cultus Lake MLA Á'a:líya Warbus and Chilliwack North MLA Heather Maahs attended the ceremonial opening of Sparrow House, a safe space for women on their recovery journ...
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Police investigation
Lougheed Highway briefly closed overnight after train strikes vehicle: RCMP
MISSION - Police in Mission say Lougheed Highway was briefly closed overnight after a vehicle was struck by a train at a railway crossing on Highway 7 east of Mission.In a statement, Mission RCMP says its members responded to a collision involving a vehicle and a train at the Lougheed Highway railway crossing near Hawk...
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Aviation incidents
UPDATE: Investigators to deploy to Chilliwack after mid-air crash of 2 planes from local flight schools
UPDATE, 6:30 A.M. TUESDAY: The Transportation Safety Board of Canada released a brief statement Tuesday morning (Aug. 4) that it will deploy a team of investigators after Monday's mid-air crash involving two Cessna 172 air craft that happened Monday near the Chilliwack Airport. The team will arrive on site Tuesday afte...
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British Columbia
More than 600 tickets, some driving bans issued as drivers attend B.C. music festival
SALMO - Police say officers handed out more than 600 tickets, including 78 for drug-impaired driving, to people who attended a music festival in British Columbia's Kootenay region. The BC Highway Patrol says in a release that more than 50,000 people a...
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B.C. man charged with sex exploitation of youth dating back two decades
RICHMOND - A Metro Vancouver man has been charged following a multi-year investigation into alleged sexual exploitation of a youth more than two decades ago. Police in Richmond say in a statement that the accused, a 53-year-old man from North Vancouver...
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Ottawa moves to list Alberta-backed West Coast pipeline as national interest project
OTTAWA - The federal government is advancing the process to designate a proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a "national interest" project. Naming a project in the national interest under the Building Canada Act allows the government to fast-trac...
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TSB investigating after two planes crashed in mid-air in Chilliwack, B.C.
CHILLIWACK - Canada's Transportation Safety Board is investigating after two planes collided in mid-air near Chilliwack, B.C., in the province's Fraser Valley. The board says in a statement that an investigation team is being deployed to the area near ...
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'Devastation': Chief says about 230 homes destroyed by B.C. wildfire
VERNON - The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says about 230 homes have been destroyed by a raging wildfire near Vernon, B.C. Dan Wilson said 30 homes of band members and 200 non-band homes had been destroyed by the Bradley Creek fire, that evacuees s...
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Two planes crash in mid-air near Chilliwack airport, officials say
CHILLIWACK - Two planes from a pair of flight schools crashed Monday while flying near the city of Chilliwack in British Columbia's Fraser Valley. Garry Atkins with the Chilliwack Airport says one of the aircraft carrying two occupants safely landed at...
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Canada
U.S. antisemitism envoy calls on Canada to restrict visas, expand terrorism listings
OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy for fighting antisemitism is urging Canada to revoke visas and expand terrorism listings to curb the rise of anti-Jewish hatred. Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, who spent seven years of his childhood in Ottawa, was ap...
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Health Canada authorizes Moderna clinical trial for new Ebola vaccine candidate
TORONTO - Health Canada has authorized Moderna to conduct a clinical trial on a new mRNA vaccine that targets the form of Ebola blamed for the largest outbreak ever reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is no vaccine or treatment for the ...
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Non-profit calls on feds to launch commission on legacy of slavery, racism in Canada
OTTAWA - A non-profit organization is calling on the federal government to launch a national commission to study the legacy of slavery and anti-Black racism in Canada. The Black Class Action Secretariat says the commission could probe the enduring impa...
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Town in Quebec's Laurentians declares state of emergency after heavy rainfall
MONTREAL - A municipality in Quebec's Laurentians region has declared a local state of emergency after heavy rainfall left some roads impassable. The town of L'Ascension says on social media that over a dozen roads are damaged or destroyed. Residents o...
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Canada-U.S. trade minister back in D.C. for talks this week
OTTAWA - Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is in Washington again this week. LeBlanc and Janice Charette, Canada's chief trade negotiator, are in D.C. "for a series of trade-related engagements," a government spokesperson said Tuesday. Both Le...
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Some WestJet flights still being cancelled Tuesday as airline ramps up after strike
Flight disruptions continue at WestJet as the airline ramps up following a brief work stoppage over the long weekend. Data from aviation analytics company Cirium showed 16 WestJet flights scheduled for Tuesday had been cancelled, as of around 11 a.m. E...
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World
Netanyahu says no Israeli withdrawal from Gaza until Hamas has been completely disarmed
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza City (AP) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel will not withdraw from its current lines in Gaza until Hamas has completely disarmed and pushed back on a recent deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump. ...
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Divided federal appeals court says Trump administration was wrong to terminate climate funds
WASHINGTON (AP) - A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday said the Trump administration improperly terminated billions of dollars in funds to boost clean energy projects, handing a win to a coalition of nonprofits picked to run the Biden-era effort....
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Utility's idle transmission tower caused 2025 Eaton fire that killed 19, Los Angeles officials say
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sparks from an idle transmission tower owned by Southern California Edison caused the 2025 Eaton fire in the Los Angeles area that killed 19 people and destroyed more than 9,400 homes and businesses, Los Angeles County fire officials...
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Sports
Former FIFA VP Prince Ali cites 'blackmail' by Infantino-led soccer body over unpaid prize money
GENEVA (AP) - Former FIFA vice president Prince Ali bin Al Hussein criticized the soccer body's leadership headed by Gianni Infantino on Tuesday, describing prize money withheld from his Jordan national team as a kind of blackmail. Prince Ali said the ...
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Team says Winnipeg basketball star injured after assault by nightclub staffers
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Sea Bears basketball team says its star player was badly injured this weekend after being attacked by security staff at a downtown nightclub. The team says guard Teddy Allen is out of hospital but may need surgery and will miss ...
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Canada's Denis Shapovalov retires in first round of National Bank Open
MONTREAL - Canada's Denis Shapovalov is out of the National Bank Open after retiring from his first-round match Tuesday. The 27-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., withdrew while trailing American Zachary Svajda 3-0 in the third set at IGA Stadium. Shap...
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