New business in downtown Chilliwack
Ice cream shop applies for business license in downtown Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK - A new ice cream shop could be coming to downtown Chilliwack in the coming months. Fraser Valley Today has learned that a company named Penguin Ice Cream has applied for a business license under that name with the City of Chilliwack. Not a lot is known about the company at this point. According to the text ...
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Valedictorians for Class of 2025
Hope Secondary announces its 2025 valedictorians
HOPE - Two outstanding students who epitomize leadership, community service and exemplary involvement in campus activities have been named valedictorians for the Class of 2025 at Hope Secondary School. Hope Secondary staff say Ty-Rean Foster & Griffin Larson embody what it means to be a Mustang through their involv...
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Opposition MPs add call for a spring economic update to throne speech
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Personalized Hearing Care
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Sinclair, Martin, Guay among inductees to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2025
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Fraser Valley
Backcountry rescue
Valley Helicopters instrumental in backcountry rescue southeast of Hope Monday
HOPE - With the help of Valley Helicopters, Hope Search and Rescue says it carried out a rescue mission Monday (June 2) involving an injured biker on the Skagit River Trail southeast of Hope. In a statement posted to social media, Hope SAR says it was tasked with rescuing a biker who had suffered injuries on the trail,...
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Weekend motor vehicle incident
Witness believes Chilliwack RCMP member was speeding prior to Young Road crash
CHILLIWACK - A Chilliwack resident who witnessed Friday's motor vehicle incident involving an RCMP SUV and a passenger vehicle says the RCMP member was speeding on Young Road just before the collision. According to scanner traffic, the two-car crash occurred at about 6:40 p.m. Friday night at the intersection of Young ...
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Chilliwack pizza biz closes temporarily
Chilliwack pizza business closes temporarily at downtown shopping centre
CHILLIWACK - A downtown Chilliwack pizza business with more than 25 years of experience in the pizza industry has temporarily closed. Demetre's Pizzeria, located in unit 15 of the Coast Salish Plaza at 46030 Yale Road, wrote on its website that it has vacated its current location because it couldn't reach an agreement ...
Jun 02, 2025
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Restaurant relocation
Chilliwack restaurant leaves Vedder Road, relocates north of Highway 1
CHILLIWACK - A Chilliwack restaurant known for serving butter chicken and offering free food to the community on previous occasions has left its Vedder Road location and relocated to the Yale Road corridor. Brar Pawandeep reached out to Fraser Valley Today last week to report that Butter Chicken House has left its prev...
Jun 02, 2025
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British Columbia
Blaze forces Alaska Highway closure as B.C. wildfire season ramps up
Fire season is ramping up in British Columbia as the province's wildfire service warns of hot, dry and windy conditions in the forecast. The service's latest bulletin says the combination of factors is likely to intensify fire behaviour this week, especially in areas experiencing prolonged drought. It says that include...
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Review of B.C. home-sharing program for adults with developmental disabilities
The British Columbia government is commissioning an independent review of the province's home-share program, months after an inquest into the starvation death of a woman with Down syndrome in a Port Coquitlam share home. A statement from the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction says the review will asse...
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B.C. primary care review underway, part of NDP's confidence deal with Greens
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has launched a review of its primary health care system, in accordance with the ruling New Democrats' confidence agreement with the Green Party. The assessment is being co-ordinated by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the two-member Green caucus. The government say...
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B.C. provides peek into $2.95B SkyTrain tunnel, set to open in 2027
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government has provided a glimpse of progress on the Broadway subway tunnel, which is set to expand Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain capacity significantly in 2027. Transportation Minister Mike Farnworth led a media tour of the construction of the tunnel, part of a 5.7-kilometre extension of ...
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Here are some facts about the proposed cull of hundreds of ostriches at B.C. farm
Protesters have been gathered for weeks at an ostrich farm in Edgewood, B.C., where an outbreak of avian flu killed 69 of the birds in December and January. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency wants the remaining 400 or so birds killed. Here's the situation: WHY DOES THE CFIA WANT THE BIRDS CULLED? The CFIA says allowi...
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B.C. ostrich farm calls for independent testing to prevent 'unnecessary destruction'
EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - The operators of a British Columbia ostrich flock that's facing a cull order after an avian flu outbreak are calling for independent testing of the birds to prevent their "unnecessary destruction." Katie Pasitney, whose parents own Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C....
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Canada
Opposition MPs add call for a spring economic update to throne speech
OTTAWA - Government whip Mark Gerretsen insists nothing went wrong with a throne speech sub-amendment vote that now calls on the government to table an economic update before Parliament breaks for the summer. The Liberals were defeated 166 to 164 Monday evening after four Liberal MPs did not vote because of paired abst...
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Newfoundland voters concerned after apparent voter mistakes void hundreds of ballots
ST. JOHN'S - Two voters in Newfoundland say they hope Elections Canada can learn from a dramatic judicial recount that revealed hundreds of people in their riding may have marked their ballots in the wrong spot. Jennifer Barnett says she didn't receive instructions about how to mark her ballot when she voted for Conser...
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Duty free stores look for financial support as cross-border traffic drops
OTTAWA - An association representing duty free stores and a group of 15 border city mayors have written a letter to the federal government asking for financial support and clarity on export rules. The Frontier Duty Free Association says its members have seen their revenue decline by 60 to 80 per cent as cross-border tr...
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In the news today: More join the thousands fleeing wildfires in Sask.
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... More join the thousands fleeing wildfires in Sask. The latest wildfire evacuees in Saskatchewan are arriving in Prince Albert after being ordered to leave the northern town of La Ronge due to a wildfire. The Saskatchewan Public Sa...
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Liberal government legislation to further tighten Canada-U.S. border expected today
OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree is expected to introduce a bill today spelling out the federal government's next steps on border security. The recent throne speech promised legislation to bolster security at Canada's borders and new tools for police and intelligence agencies to help them stop the fl...
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Saskatchewan fire evacuations grow after blaze breaches airport
The latest wildfire evacuees in Saskatchewan are being told to head south to Prince Albert after being ordered to leave the northern town of La Ronge. The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency issued an evacuation order Monday afternoon for the 2,500 residents of La Ronge, as well as those in nearby Air Ronge and the Lac L...
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World
Poland's Tusk sets confidence vote on his government for next week due to 'new political reality'
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday that parliament will hold a confidence vote on his government on June 11, as the country faces a "new political reality." He called for the vote after his political ally, the liberal Warsaw mayor, lost Poland's weekend presidential electio...
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Far-right lawmaker Wilders pulls his party out of ruling Dutch coalition in dispute over migration
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders pulled his party out of ruling four-party Dutch coalition Tuesday in dispute over a crackdown on migration. Wilders announced his decision in a message on X after a brief meeting in parliament of leaders of the four parties that make up the 11-month-old adm...
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Gaza officials say Israeli forces killed 27 heading to aid site. Israel says it fired near suspects
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian health officials and witnesses say Israeli forces fired on people as they headed toward an aid distribution site on Tuesday, killing at least 27, in the third such incident in three days. The army said it fired "near a few individual suspects" who left the designated...
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Sports
Sinclair, Martin, Guay among inductees to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2025
CALGARY - Soccer star Christine Sinclair, curler Kevin Martin and alpine skier Erik Guay are among the athletes who will be inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame this year. Wheelchair racer Michelle Stilwell and softball player Darren Zack will join them in the athlete category, while NHL coach Ted Nolan and sport...
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Tyrese Haliburton took roads less traveled to stardom in the NBA Finals
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma City's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Indiana's Tyrese Haliburton weren't expected to ever be starring in leading roles on the NBA Finals stage. Well, at least not by many. "It's been a roller coaster," Gilgeous-Alexander said. "I had nights where I thought I wasn't good at bas...
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Texas Tech ends Oklahoma's 4-year run as Women's College World Series champ with walk-off 3-2 win
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma's run of four straight Women's College World Series titles ended when Lauren Allred's walk-off sacrifice fly gave Texas Tech a 3-2 victory in the semifinals on Monday night. Coach Patty Gasso's Sooners (52-9) were down to their last strike in the top of the seventh inning when Abigale Dayt...
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