Fraser Valley

Employment Opportunities
UFV hosting job information fair at Hope Centre Wednesday
HOPE - The University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) is looking to connect residents with more job opportunities ahead of a BC Housing project's upcoming opening this fall.Cedar Strong Prevention & Intervention Society is set to host a job information fair at UFV's Hope Centre on Wednesday, July 15, across the street f...
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Afternoon Collision
No one hurt after vehicle strikes telephone pole on Yale Road
CHILLIWACK - Traffic had been stalled for a short time after a single-vehicle collision on Yale Road Saturday afternoon (July 11).First responders attended the incident at 12:24 p.m., where a car reportedly struck what witnesses say appeared to be a telephone pole.BCEHS says one ambulance responded to the scene, but no...
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Wildfire Situation
Highway 1 reopens through Fraser Canyon after weather brings some reprieve from growing wildfire
BOSTON BAR - Highway 1 has reopened to traffic four days after it was shut down due to the Brunswick Creek wildfire burning on both ends of the Fraser River. In an update shared by DriveBC at around 7:21 a.m., the highway has reopened to one lane of traffic each way between Boston Bar and Jackass Summit. There is still...
Jul 11, 2026
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GoFundMe Started
Fundraiser launched for worker critically injured in Mission house fire
MISSION - Loved ones are now hoping to get a local man and his family back on their feet after a house fire left him with burns and several skull fractures Thursday evening (July 9). Mission police say a 31-year-old from Chilliwack, along with two other workers, had been renovating a deck at a three-storey home on Cher...
Jul 11, 2026
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Fraser Valley Weather

British Columbia

Evacuation alert for East Kootenay wildfire, Brunswick Creek fire grows: officials
Dozens of properties in British Columbia's East Kootenay region are under an evacuation alert as another out-of-control wildfire burns. The Regional District of East Kootenay has placed 72 properties in the Premier Lake area under an evacuation alert a...
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150 residents displaced after fire hits apartment building in New Westminster, B.C.
NEW WESTMINSTER - Around 150 residents are without homes after a fire gutted an apartment building in New Westminster, B.C., and trapped multiple residents on balconies, officials said. The City of New Westminster said the fire started at around 1:30 p...
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NWT cancels Amber Alert for boy believed taken from Alberta, but remains missing
An Amber Alert for a missing six-year-old boy has now been cancelled in the Northwest Territories, a day after RCMP in Alberta and British Columbia cancelled alerts in those provinces for the child. Lanakai Morrison remains missing, however, and the NW...
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Man charged with 2nd degree murder after vehicle incident in Vanderhoof, B.C.
VANDERHOOF - Mounties in Vanderhoof, B.C., say a man is facing a murder charge after a vehicle incident left another man dead. RCMP say they responded to the incident at around 1 p.m. Thursday in the 1500-block of Loop Road. Officers found one man de...
Jul 11, 2026
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Highway 1 reopens in Fraser Canyon as crews battle B.C. wildfires
Highway 1 has reopened in British Columbia's Fraser Canyon as crews continue to battle twin wildfires. The province's transportation website, Drive BC, says the stretch of highway between Boston Bar Station Road and Jackass Summit has reopened to traf...
Jul 11, 2026
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Police investigate after woman's body found in vehicle in Kelowna, B.C.
KELOWNA - Mounties say the body of a woman has been found in the back of a vehicle in Kelowna, B.C. RCMP say in a statement that they responded to a report on Tuesday of suspicious circumstances in the 800 block of Baillie Avenue. They say the discove...
Jul 10, 2026
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Canada

Carney says U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham was steadfast defender of democracy and freedom
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is offering his condolences to the family of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, saying he "stood resolutely in defence of democracy and freedom." Graham died this weekend after a "brief and sudden illness," according to his ...
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Fear, grief and calls for security after deadly shooting at Toronto street festival
TORONTO - A Toronto street that should have been packed with vendors and dancing people was all but deserted on Sunday after a shooting the night before at the Salsa on St. Clair festival left two people dead and sent thousands running for cover. The s...
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'Social phenomenon': Fashion saddles up to politics at the Calgary Stampede
CALGARY - The Calgary Stampede is more than a rodeo. It's a runway for western fashion that politicians strut down each year. Politicians of all stripes attend the annual exhibition and rodeo, considered a celebration of everything western. The cowboy ...
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'I've been training all year': Carney masters the art of flipping Stampede flapjacks
CALGARY - Prime Minister Mark Carney has waited a year for a Stampede pancake breakfast do-over, and managed to perfect the art of flapjack flipping on Sunday. Carney attended one of the final Stampede breakfasts of the year at the Sunnyside Hillhurst ...
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'Power hungry': Nuclear renaissance a boon for Canada's mining and reactor sectors
CIGAR LAKE, SASK. - Taryn Roske lost her job twice when the nuclear industry had ground to a halt. The Cameco employee and hundreds of others were laid off from the company's Rabbit Lake mine in northern Saskatchewan after it shut down in 2016. "I had ...
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A look at Canada's uranium mining industry and its plan for nuclear plants
CIGAR LAKE, SASK. - After about a decade of stagnation, the nuclear industry is now seeing what some are calling a renaissance. Here's a look at the sector in Canada and its future plans. Canada is the world's second-largest uranium producer In 2024, ...
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