Upper Fraser Valley Detachment
Rainy week makes for a quiet week for RCMP
CHILLIWACK - Last week's rainy weather is credited with making for a quiet week of work for the Upper Fraser Valley RCMP.BC Conservation Officers called police to investigate a driver involved in a single-vehicle crash on Keith Wilson Road. A breath sample revealed the driver was almost 3 times over the legal limit. An...
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Road Safety
UPDATE: Coquihalla Highway reopened in both directions
UPDATE at 11 a.m.: The Coquihalla Highway has been reopened to traffic in both directions. HOPE - The Coquihalla Highway was closed overnight between Hope and Merritt after heavy snow blanketed the region Wednesday night. DriveBC says the highway was closed around 9 p.m. due to a vehicle incident, adding that commercia...
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Man with a loaded handgun arrested at SkyTrain station in Surrey
SURREY - Transit Police in Metro Vancouver say one person has been arrested after a routine sweep to make sure riders had paid their fares found a man allegedly carrying a loaded gun. Police say officers were checking passengers for fares at the Gatewa...
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Distracted driving month
Distracted driving blitz nets dozens of drivers in Mission
More than 50 drivers were ticketed during a distracted-driving enforcement blitz in Mission. The operation was part of distracted driving month in B.C.Mission RCMP teamed up with Canadian Pacific Kansas City police, RoadSafetyBC and volunteers from the Mission Crime Prevention Office to operate the blitz.Officers were...
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Charges expected
Abbotsford Police seize drugs, cash and a car in Monday bust
ABBOTSFORD - Three people in their twenties were arrested after being found by police allegedly selling drugs in Abbotsford. Abbotsford police say the two men and one woman were arrested in the area of Gillis Avenue and McCallum Road on Monday (March 23) evening, just after 9 p.m. Police discovered and seized approxima...
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Opinion
YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Strengthening B.C.'s healthcare workforce
British Columbia is an amazing place to work, start a family, or retire. As our communities grow it has become clear that we need more health care professionals to support people through every stage of life. That's why our government launched a campaign in March 2025, to recruit more doctors, nurses, and allied health ...
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British Columbia
B.C. Conservative MLA Hon Chan charged with choking, assault and uttering threats
VICTORIA - British Columbia Conservative MLA Hon Chan has been charged with assault, assault by choking and uttering threats, prompting his removal from the party caucus. The BC Prosecution Service says the Richmond Centre legislator was charged under ...
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RCMP in B.C. seize 115 kg of meth, hidden in jars of pickles bound for Australia
VANCOUVER - RCMP in British Columbia say they have foiled an operation to smuggle methamphetamine to Melbourne, Australia, hidden in jars of pickles. The Mounties say the investigation was carried out with the help of Australian Federal Police and Cana...
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TD slashes housing market forecast for 2026, now sees sales and prices falling
TD Economics has severely lowered its 2026 forecast for home sales and prices, saying it no longer expects either to rise this year, after weak performances over the past two quarters. It now expects sales to fall 1.8 per cent year-over-year, on averag...
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Tumbler Ridge shooting victim Maya Gebala's mom says UFC boss offering to fund care
VANCOUVER - The mother of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting victim Maya Gebala says Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White has offered to pay for her daughter to be treated in California. Cia Edmonds says 12-year-old Gebala, who suffered serio...
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Old Man Winter wallops B.C.'s Mainland/Southwest region, major highway closed
Old Man Winter is doling out a spring wallop to parts of southwestern B-C. Heavy snowfall has triggered a temporary shutdown of the Coquihalla Highway this morning, between Hope and Merritt. Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning, forecasting...
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LNG Canada, Coastal GasLink sign pipeline deal, bringing projects closer to reality
VICTORIA - The companies behind the Coastal GasLink pipeline and the massive LNG Canada facility in Kitimat, B.C., have signed agreements that bring both of their second phases closer to reality. TC Energy says the agreement to establish a "comprehensi...
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Canada
Supreme Court wraps up hearings over Quebec secularism law
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada is beginning its deliberations about a Quebec secularism law after hearings on the controversial legislation wrapped up. The 2019 Quebec law bans some public sector workers from wearing religious symbols on the job....
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B.C. Conservative MLA Hon Chan charged with choking, assault and uttering threats
VICTORIA - British Columbia Conservative MLA Hon Chan has been charged with assault, assault by choking and uttering threats, prompting his removal from the party caucus. The BC Prosecution Service says the Richmond Centre legislator was charged under ...
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RCMP in B.C. seize 115 kg of meth, hidden in jars of pickles bound for Australia
VANCOUVER - RCMP in British Columbia say they have foiled an operation to smuggle methamphetamine to Melbourne, Australia, hidden in jars of pickles. The Mounties say the investigation was carried out with the help of Australian Federal Police and Cana...
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Tumbler Ridge shooting victim Maya Gebala's mom says UFC boss offering to fund care
VANCOUVER - The mother of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting victim Maya Gebala says Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White has offered to pay for her daughter to be treated in California. Cia Edmonds says 12-year-old Gebala, who suffered serio...
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Bank of Canada rethinking inflation framework amid persistent shocks: Rogers
OTTAWA - A senior official at the Bank of Canada says the central bank is reconsidering how it thinks and talks about inflation as it prepares to review its mandate later this year. Bank of Canada senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers was in Brandon, M...
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Ottawa proposes $1.7B fund to help provinces lower cost of homebuilding
OTTAWA - The federal government is proposing a $1.7-billion fund to help provinces and territories lower the cost of homebuilding. The federal funding is meant to help provinces reduce development fees or other levies on new housing to speed up the pac...
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World
California lawmakers pass bill to rename César Chavez Day following sexual abuse allegations
SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) - California lawmakers voted Thursday to rename César Chavez Day as Farmworkers Day in an effort to reconcile the Latino labor icon's legacy with explosive sexual abuse allegations before the state holiday on March 31. ...
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Brother and sister are charged after an explosive device was found outside a Florida Air Force base
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A man who fled to China and his sister have been charged after an explosive device was left outside a gate at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa this month. Alen Zheng, 20, and Ann Mary Zheng, 27, were charged We...
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Judge weighs whether Venezuela can pay Maduro's legal costs in US drug trafficking case
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were back in a New York courtroom Thursday as they seek to have their drug trafficking indictments thrown out over a geopolitical dispute over legal fees. The defense...
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Sports
Surging Sabres have brought the buzz back to Buffalo in closing in on 1st playoff berth in 15 years
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Josh Norris' father had never steered him wrong before. And yet the Sabres forward was somewhat skeptical of just how passionate Buffalo was as a hockey market upon his arrival in a trade from Ottawa a year ago. Sidelined by an inj...
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Canada's Stephen Gogolev in fifth after men's short program at figure skating worlds
PRAGUE - Canada's Stephen Gogolev continued his breakout season Thursday, finishing fifth in the men's singles short program at the world figure skating championships. Competing at his first worlds, Gogolev delivered a personal-best 94.38 points with a...
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Einarson parts ways with Sweeting, others, after loss in world championship final
Kerri Einarson is shaking up her team days after it lost to Switzerland in the final of the world women's curling championship in Calgary. The team based in Gimli, Man., announced Thursday it is parting ways with longtime third Val Sweeting, as well as...
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