ABBOTSFORD - A third candidate has entered the race for mayor of Abbotsford in the upcoming municipal election.Paul Mahil, a third-generation farmer, confirmed his candidacy on Monday, September 14. Mahil's family planted roots in Abbotsford in 1974, when his grandfather bought the farm they have worked on for three ge...

CHILLIWACK - A clinic for new and expectant mothers in Chilliwack and surrounding communities has marked its hard launch with a ribbon-cutting on Friday (Sept. 18). The new Chilliwack Maternity Care Clinic (CMCC): Ehó:temáwtxw opened with co-leads Dr. Alison Henry and registered midwife Winifred Angus, wh...

FRASER VALLEY - Riders in this year's Cops for Cancer are set to hit the road for their last day of the Fraser Valley tour in Harrison, ending an over-600-kilometre journey that started on Monday (Sept. 14). Nineteen cyclists in agencies ranging from the Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement and Chilliwack River Va...

ABBOTSFORD - Police in Abbotsford have recently impounded a vehicle after a series of dangerous driving choices made on local roads.On Tuesday evening (Sept. 15), in the 31500 block of Lombard Avenue, the Abbotsford Police Department says its traffic enforcement officers were conducting checks from an unmarked police c...

PENTICTON - The City of Penticton says James Miller will not be returning to his position as a city councillor after being convicted of an indictable criminal offence. The Penticton Herald reports that Miller, who was also the managing editor of that n...

BEAVERLODGE - RCMP say two young boys who were allegedly abducted in Alberta more than two months ago by their mother and her partner have been found safe in British Columbia. The boys, ages four and six, were found Thursday at a rural property in West...

CALGARY - Canada has the potential to bolster Europe's energy security through a new alliance, but experts say it doesn't necessarily mean tankers crossing the Atlantic Ocean laden with oil or liquefied natural gas. Prime Minister Mark Carney was in St...

The self-destruction of the British Columbia Conservatives has birthed a right-of-centre alternative in the provincial legislature, which faces the prospect of an early election call by Premier David Eby to take advantage of chaos in Opposition ranks. ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's southern Interior is facing "entrenched" drought conditions despite recent rainfall. The River Forecast Centre says in its latest water scarcity bulletin that many groundwater monitoring wells in the region "continue to r...

VANCOUVER - When Jaden Konishi rolled his 1986 Porsche 944 into Vancouver after an 8,000-kilometre road trip to the Arctic Circle, he had a surplus of new memories but no clutch. It had died about 3,000 kilometres earlier, somewhere in the Yukon's Tomb...

The International Language Academy of Canada says it has filed for bankruptcy protection and cancelled all classes and programming. A notice posted on the private language school's website, better known as ILAC, says it has faced growing financial chal...

A diver who was bitten by a shark earlier this week in Quebec is still in hospital but in stable condition, according to his colleague at the local diving centre. "I just spoke with him about half an hour ago," said Jean-François Vézina, vice-chair of ...

OTTAWA - National Defence Minister David McGuinty says the United States' deal to boost its military presence in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish control is "encouraging." U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he has a deal with Denma...

CALGARY - An emotional Premier Danielle Smith held back tears Saturday as she recounted a long list of historic indignities Albertans have suffered at the hands of the federal government. Smith was the opening speaker at a virtual assembly discussing A...

OTTAWA - Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says upcoming legislation will help reduce the number of times the federal government has to intervene in strikes. Speaking to reporters on Parliament Hill Saturday, Hajdu did not provide many details about expected ...

EDMONTON - Alberta's summer of unrest over its role in Confederation is striding into a final phase of rallies, lawn sign rivalry and hyperbolic warnings of doom and demise. With one month to go before the Oct. 19 referendum, drivers going through many...

Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections. Moscow's mayor desc...

CAIRO (AP) - Saudi Arabia on Saturday confirmed that Yemen's Houthi rebels tried to attack its capital with a ballistic missile, the first targeting of Riyadh since the escalation in fighting with the Tehran-backed rebels that has opened a new front in...

WASHINGTON (AP) - MS NOW said its journalists were denied access to the White House grounds Saturday morning, a day after President Donald Trump said he would ban the network other outlets from the complex. The action escalated Trump's lo...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Carlo Holse, Tomas Totland and Simon Becher all scored to propel St. Louis City to a 3-1 victory over Toronto FC on Saturday night, extending a club-record unbeaten streak to 16. St. Louis City (12-6-8) has gone 11-0-5 during the run t...

SANDY, Utah (AP) - Brian White and Thomas Müller each scored a goal, Yadaly Diaby had a goal and an assist, and the Vancouver Whitecaps beat Real Salt Lake 3-0 on Saturday night to extend the winless streak to 12 games. RSL (8-12-5) have eight losses ...

Five former members of Canada's 2018 world junior hockey team - Alex Formenton, Carter Hart, Dillon Dubé, Cal Foote and Michael McLeod - were acquitted in July 2025 on sexual assault charges stemming from an encounter at a 2018 Hockey Canada gala in Lo...