CHILLIWACK - A small wildfire has ignited in the Chilliwack River Valley Saturday, but firefighters have reportedly knocked down the fire. According to the B.C. Wildfire Service online dashboard, the fire is located just west of Post Creek, a small subdivision about a kilometer west of Chilliwack Lake Provincial Park. ...

ABBOTSFORD - The Abbotsford Regional Hospital's long-time supporter has recently celebrated more than a century of service in the community.For its 104th birthday, the Auxiliary reflected on several milestones from the past decade, such as reaching $1,000,000 in 2016 and again in 2024. These funds helped support the pu...

ABBOTSFORD - Despite a slight, optimistic rise in home sales last month, the Fraser Valley real estate market still remains below its 2024 levels. The Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB) recorded a total of 1,401 active listings in Abbotsford, Mission, and Langley in June -a 24 per cent increase from 2024. Those fi...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., say a motorcyclist is dead after colliding with a vehicle Saturday morning. Surrey police have confirmed the RCMP is investigating the crash that happened at the intersection of 132 Street and Crescent Road. Police say emergency crews tried to save the motorcyclist's life, but the man d...

LYTTON - The only blaze of note identified by the BC Wildfire Service continues to grow. The Izman Creek wildfire near Lytton is now burning 245 hectares, and the danger remains, despite an evacuation order from the Neskonlith Indian Band for about 40 properties in the area being downgraded to an alert last week. This ...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court says concerns raised by Squamish, B.C., residents in a legal challenge to a townhouse development project are "overblown," paving the way for high-density housing in one of the country's fastest-growing communities. A ruling issued Thursday says Dennis and Andrea Smith wante...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., say a motorcyclist is dead after colliding with a vehicle Saturday morning. Surrey police have confirmed the RCMP is investigating the crash that happened at the intersection of 132 Street and Crescent Road. Police say emergency crews tried to save the motorcyclist's life, but the man d...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia infrastructure minister says in her eight years as a member of the legislature, she can recall receiving about half a dozen death threats, and considers herself "pretty fortunate" as a provincial politician. Bowinn Ma says she knows it's strange to say, but she is aware of other e...

There's been an unusual addition to a wildfire fight in steep terrain burning near Hope, B.C. RCMP say their officers arrived to help other first responders on Thursday as the fire burned on the side of a mountain when they heard a man yelling for help. Once the fire was contained in the area, police say search and res...

Hate aimed at religion, sexual orientation and race or ethnicity has jumped in British Columbia, setting off a funding increase for the RCMP's hate crimes unit. Public Safety Minister Garry Begg announced an additional $734,000 for the RCMP's anti-hate crime unit in the province as police-reported hate crimes rose by a...

OTTAWA - Not that long ago, former air force fighter pilot Stephen Fuhr was just one among many voices in Canada complaining about the way the federal government makes big defence purchasing decisions. At no point, he said, did it occur to him that he would wind up in his current position - as the prime minister's poin...

MONTREAL - A spokesperson for the Montreal Comiccon says the trade war with the United States could supercharge attendance at the colourful pop culture gathering. A large crowd of people, some dressed as superheroes and TV and movie characters, were already filtering into Montreal's convention centre shortly after door...

MONTREAL - Quebec's bar association has suspended the lawyer's licence of Leonardo Rizzuto, who was one of 11 people arrested last month in a police operation targeting organized crime. The Barreau du Québec announced this week that it had provisionally suspended Rizzuto's licence as of July 2. The 56-year-old i...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia infrastructure minister says in her eight years as a member of the legislature, she can recall receiving about half a dozen death threats, and considers herself "pretty fortunate" as a provincial politician. Bowinn Ma says she knows it's strange to say, but she is aware of other e...

YELLOWKNIFE - Canada's environment ministers have endorsed stronger air quality standards for fine particulate matter, while acknowledging the struggles caused by wildfires that can blanket the country in smoke advisories. Provincial, territorial and federal environment ministers met in Yellowknife for the annual meeti...

Hate aimed at religion, sexual orientation and race or ethnicity has jumped in British Columbia, setting off a funding increase for the RCMP's hate crimes unit. Public Safety Minister Garry Begg announced an additional $734,000 for the RCMP's anti-hate crime unit in the province as police-reported hate crimes rose by a...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran' s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday made his first public appearance since the 12-day war between Israel and Iran began, attending a mourning ceremony on the eve of Ashoura. The absence of Khamenei during the war had suggested heavy security for the Iranian leader, who has fina...

LONDON (AP) - Defending Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova lost to No. 10 seed Emma Navarro 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the third round on Saturday, extending a recent run of one-and-done winners at the All England Club. Krejcikova faded in the third set, getting her blood pressure checked at the changeover after Navarro broke...

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) - At least 24 people were killed and a frantic search continued overnight for many others missing in the Texas Hill Country, including more than 20 from a girls camp, after a storm unleashed nearly a foot of rain and sent floodwaters spilling out of the Guadalupe River. The destructive force of th...

SEATTLE (AP) - The Seattle Kraken signed forward Tye Kartye to a two-year contract extension Saturday with a $1.25 million average annual value. The 24-year-old Kartye had six goals and seven assists in 63 regular-season games last season. He also had two goals and two assists in three games for Coachella Valley in the...

MONTREAL - Sean Whyte's 43-yard field goal on the final play of the game lifted the B.C. Lions to a stunning come-from-behind 21-20 win over the Montreal Alouettes in front of 21,144 Percival Molson Stadium spectators on Saturday night. Trailing 17-12 as time wound down in the fourth quarter, Lions' quarterback Nathan ...

TORONTO - Neither Addison Barger nor relievers Lazaro Estrada and Braydon Fisher were on the Toronto Blue Jays' 26-player opening day roster. But all three played significant roles in the Blue Jays' 4-3 extra-inning victory against the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday that extended Toronto's win streak to a season-high s...