Power Outage
Power restored to over 1,500 residents after motor vehicle accident along Prairie Central Road
CHILLIWACK - More than 1,500 residents have lost power for a few minutes after a motor vehicle incident Monday morning (Aug. 3). At around 7:36 a.m., BC Hydro crews were called in to a report of lines down along the Chilliwack River and Prairie Central Roads, with scanner traffic reporting a pole sheared off. BC Ambula...
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WestJet, CUPE reach tentative deal as passengers scramble amid flight disruptions
CALGARY - WestJet and the union representing some 4,400 flight attendants reached a tentative deal Monday to resume work after a brief work stoppage, but neither side is sharing specifics yet. The airline had said Sunday it had proposed a 13 per cent p...
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Fraser Valley
Fraser River Challenge Expedition
Relay swimmers tackle Fraser River amid ongoing wildfire season
FRASER RIVER - A team of four swimmers is set to challenge over 1,300 kilometres of the Fraser River, from its frigid origins near Mount Robson, through the raging wildfires at Boston Bar, all the way down to the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland. The core relay team of campaign manager Naomi Devine, Simon Fraser Univer...
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Strategic Priorities Fund
Hope receives $175K funding for wastewater planning
HOPE - The federal government is looking to build stronger communities in B.C., including the Fraser Valley, with a new round of infrastructure funding. Fifty-four new building projects in the province are being supported through the Strategic Priorities Fund, a program allotted for projects that are beyond the financi...
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Kidney Care
Surrey Memorial Hospital opens new renal facility
SURREY - Patients with kidney concerns may now have better access to care in the region with the opening of a new renal facility at Surrey Memorial Hospital.The recently opened facility is adding 21 new hemodialysis treatment stations, bringing the total to 60 in the hospital.Surrey Hospitals Foundation supported the $...
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Multi-Vehicle Crash
3 in hospital after collisions on Yale Road Sunday
CHILLIWACK -Three people have been taken to hospital after a motor vehicle incident on Yale Road Sunday (Aug. 2). The Chilliwack Fire Department, along with roughly four RCMP vehicles and three ambulances, were paged out to the crash in the intersection of Yale Road and Kerr Avenue at around 10:55 a.m. (Image Credit: W...
Aug 02, 2026
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British Columbia
Okanagan wildfires force expanded orders, alerts as First Nation assesses losses
VERNON - Wildfires burning on the west side and north end of Okanagan Lake have forced more evacuation orders and alerts. Central Okanagan Emergency Management issued a further evacuation order because of the Quilpituk Creek wildfire, bringing the to...
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Lakeside homes destroyed, evacuations expanded as B.C. wildfires surge
VERNON - A wildfire fanned by 115-kilometre-per-hour winds razed homes along the west side of British Columbia's Okanagan Lake, forcing many residents to escape to safety. Video and photos posted online showed flames in the night sky engulfing propert...
Aug 02, 2026
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Elizabeth May says Greens can win byelection by campaigning on PM's climate record
OTTAWA - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says she thinks the Greens can pull off an upset in one of the upcoming byelection races by campaigning on Liberal rollbacks of climate policy. The Greens are running Shelley Luce - an environmental scientist w...
Aug 02, 2026
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'It's a responsibility': animals moved out as B.C. fire risk looms
Will Unruh says the 13 bison he cares for at his ranch near the shores of British Columbia's Green Lake know that something is amiss. Smoke from a nearby wildfire is in the air, and they are staying close. "They're hanging out right in this little corr...
Aug 01, 2026
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Class-action lawsuit over sexual abuse at Metro Vancouver schools settled for $30M
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court has approved a $30-million settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed over historical claims of physical, psychological and sexual abuse at two schools in Metro Vancouver run by the Catholic Church. The court approve...
Aug 01, 2026
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RCMP continue careful recovery of sunken fishing charter in B.C. waters
RICHMOND, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Mounties say raising a sunken fishing charter in the Straight of Georgia near Richmond, B.C., where six people are presumed drowned, needs to be done carefully as the vessel is considered evidence in their investigation. P...
Jul 31, 2026
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Canada
Canadian astronaut prepares for NASA mission to International Space Station
A few months after Artemis II's lunar flyby, another Canadian astronaut is preparing for a mission in space that could lead to medical breakthroughs. Joshua Kutryck from Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., is one of four members assigned to NASA's SpaceX Crew 1...
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Okanagan wildfires force expanded orders, alerts as First Nation assesses losses
VERNON - Wildfires burning on the west side and north end of Okanagan Lake have forced more evacuation orders and alerts. Central Okanagan Emergency Management issued a further evacuation order because of the Quilpituk Creek wildfire, bringing the to...
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Duelling symbols: Alberta and Canada flags creating division ahead of referendum
EDMONTON - Sarah Batchelor says it started a few weeks ago when a large blue flag bearing Alberta's shield of arms appeared on her neighbour's window in Airdrie, a city north of Calgary. The 49-year-old music teacher, who has lived in the province fo...
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WestJet, CUPE reach tentative deal as passengers scramble amid flight disruptions
CALGARY - WestJet and the union representing some 4,400 flight attendants reached a tentative deal Monday to resume work after a brief work stoppage, but neither side is sharing specifics yet. The airline had said Sunday it had proposed a 13 per cent p...
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Some Canadians tell Carney Ottawa's spelling protocol should lean British
OTTAWA - It seems some Canadians feel quite at home with the federal government's preference for British spelling. Messages to Prime Minister Mark Carney on the matter indicate several correspondents see the affectation as a way of countering U.S. cult...
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Hundreds protest Meta's plan for massive data centre in northern Alberta county
MORINVILLE - Hundreds of protesters chanted "Down, down with corporations" outside a northern Alberta county office on Sunday to voice their opposition to tech giant Meta's plan to build a data centre. The morning protest took place in Morinville, a to...
Aug 02, 2026
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World
New talks are 'last chance' for Iran to forge a deal and avoid escalation of US strikes, Trump says
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has played this hand before during the 5-month-old Iran war - but this time, he insists it's different. The president on Monday said that new talks between Washington and Tehran are the "last chanc...
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Europe's hot, dry summer takes its toll with fires in France and Greece, and drought in the UK
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A record-breaking hot and dry summer tightened its grip on Europe Monday, as water-dropping planes swooped over a major wildfire in Greece, firefighters in France sought to stabilize a blaze in Provence, and much of the U.K. recor...
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Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rare meeting with International Red Cross
BANGKOK (AP) - Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the International Committee of the Red Cross' representative in the capital on Monday, the military-backed government said, a rare moment of contact with the outside world for th...
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Sports
Shapovalov struggles with injuries but finds confidence in Los Cabos final
MONTREAL - Denis Shapovalov insists there's nothing wrong with his tennis. It's his body, rather, that's been holding him back. "It's been a tricky year because I have been feeling good on court," Shapovalov said Monday in Montreal. "I've been feeling ...
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Canada's Kayla Cross upsets Britain's Katie Boulter at NBO for first WTA
TORONTO - Canada's Kayla Cross has her first WTA victory. The London, Ont., product upset Britain's Katie Boulter 7-6 (3), 7-5 to advance to the second round of the National Bank Open on Monday. "Definitely in shock," Cross said. "Sill doesn't really f...
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Rain interrupts men's National Bank Open in Montreal a second straight day
MONTREAL - Rain continued to wreak havoc Monday at the National Bank Open in Montreal to further disrupt a backlogged men's schedule. A downpour that started before play was to get underway at 11 a.m. local time prompted officials to delay until noon, ...
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