Power outage in Chilliwack
UPDATE 7:40 P.M.: Power restored to over 1,300 customers in Chilliwack Tuesday night
UPDATE: BC Hydro's online dashboard at 7:38 p.m. no longer shows any outages in Chilliwack. Original story from 6:58 p.m.: CHILLIWACK - Despite sunny skies, a lack of strong winds and pleasantly nice weather around the Fraser Valley tonight, a power outage with no apparent cause just yet has left over 1,300 customers i...
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Chilliwack used book store
Chilliwack bookstore owner apologizes for delays in reopening after fire above his store
CHILLIWACK - The owner of a used book store in downtown Chilliwack says he's eager to reopen his business after it sustained water damage from a fire in the upstairs living units in July 2025. According to handwritten messages left outside his retail storefront, Neil Stad of Nuggets Used Books at 45832 Wellington Avenu...
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Power outage in Chilliwack
UPDATE 7:40 P.M.: Power restored to over 1,300 customers in Chilliwack Tuesday night
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Popkum Fire to conduct training exercise at abandoned house tonight
CHEAM FIRST NATION - Residents of Popkum, Rosedale and Cheam First Nation might see smoke or flashing emergency lights coming from a training scenario later today. In a social media post, Cheam First Nation (Xwchíyò:m) says the Popkum Fire Department will be conducting structure firefighting training on M...
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Great Blue Heron Reserve
Key pedestrian bridge at Chilliwack nature reserve to reopen
CHILLIWACK - A key pedestrian bridge connecting trails and other interesting lookout points at a Chilliwack nature reserve is slated to reopen today.Earlier this year, the Great Blue Heron Reserve notified the public about failing infrastructure underneath the Centre Trail Bridge. Due to safety concerns, GBHR closed th...
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BC Transit
B.C. Transit announces seasonal bus service changes in Chilliwack, Cultus Lake and Agassiz-Harrison
CHILLIWACK - School bus trips on Route 51 in Chilliwack will resume in the coming weeks, while service to Cultus Lake will wrap up just after Labour Day. In a statement, B.C. Transit, FVRD and the City of Chilliwack say seasonal service changes take effect on Tuesday, September 2. In Chilliwack, school trips on Route 5...
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Proposed housing development
Two formerly dilapidated homes in Chilliwack could be converted into low rise apartments
CHILLIWACK - A Surrey-based development company's application to have two Williams Street properties rezoned where a pair of formerly dilapidated homes once sat is coming back to Chilliwack City Council today. According to a staff report in April 2025 prepared by city planner Sean Roufosse, Common Ground Consulting of ...
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British Columbia
Media challenge publication ban on Lapu Lapu attack suspect's fitness hearing
VANCOUVER - A media consortium has challenged a publication ban on evidence at a hearing to determine if the man accused of killing 11 people at Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day festival is fit to stand trial. The ban, which is supported by both prosecutors and the defence, says evidence in the British Columbia provincial cou...
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Thieves tug at heartstrings in string of Canada-wide distraction thefts, police say
EDMONTON - Police in Alberta say the public should mind strangers asking for hugs or sharing sob stories after three people were arrested in a string of "distraction" thefts across Canada. Edmonton police say officers have received at least 63 reports since May of people having belongings stolen while being d...
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B.C.'s Joffre Lakes Park closing for a month for recovery, First Nations' practices
PEMBERTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - British Columbia's government says Joffre Lakes Park will shut for a month in about two weeks' time, to allow it to "recover from a busy summer" and allow First Nations to carry out cultural practices. It says the closure from Sept. 2 to Oct. 3 is also in recognition of t...
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B.C. resort destroyed by 2023 Okanagan wildfire sues over insurance 'gaps'
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Plane, bus or car? Travellers scramble for solutions after Air Canada strike ends
Noha Zaher and Ibraheem Sabry still hadn't made it home to Ottawa despite enduring nearly 60 hours of travel chaos and confusion after their vacation abroad. The couple and their two kids spent Tuesday at Toronto's Pearson airport after they were denied boarding twice in Cairo because their flights with two different a...
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B.C. Ombudsperson says whistleblower protection law 'falling short' in some areas
VICTORIA - New reports by British Columbia's ombudsperson on a whistleblower protection law show that it is "falling short" in some areas in its first five years. The four reports released by BC Ombudsperson Jay Chalke say that while the law has "worked well in many aspects," some public sectors and...
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Media challenge publication ban on Lapu Lapu attack suspect's fitness hearing
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B.C.'s Joffre Lakes Park closing for a month for recovery, First Nations' practices
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5 Canadian soldiers suspended over Nazi salute video
OTTAWA - Five members of the Canadian Armed Forces have been suspended and military police are investigating after a video surfaced showing a group of people giving Nazi salutes. The commander of the army, Lieutenant-General Michael Wright, says he is "deeply disturbed and profoundly disappointed" by the vide...
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Man accused of drowning his nine-year-old daughter in New York makes court appearance
The lawyer representing a father charged with murdering his nine-year-old Canadian daughter in Upstate New York said his client will ask for bail. Luciano Frattolin appeared Tuesday in Essex County court in Elizabethtown, N.Y., for a hearing to provide updates on his upcoming murder trial. Assistant public defender Eri...
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Elizabeth May won't lead Green Party in next federal election
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P.E.I. police fear local man may commit a terrorism offence; impose conditions
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Florida man executed for the 1982 killing of a woman abducted from an insurance office
STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A man convicted of abducting a woman from a Florida Panhandle insurance office and killing her was executed Tuesday evening. Kayle Bates, 67, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSa...
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National Guard troops from four states begin arriving in DC
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Syria's foreign minister held a rare meeting with an Israeli delegation in Paris, report says
BEIRUT (AP) - Syria's state-run news agency says the country's foreign minister has held a rare meeting with an Israeli delegation in Paris. The SANA news agency says Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani met with Israeli officials on Tuesday to discuss de-escalating tensions and restoring a 1974 ceasefire agreement. The A...
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Sports
Canada focuses on netting bronze after losing to U.S. in Americas Cup semifinals
BOGOTÁ - Team Canada's shot at a berth in the gold-medal final came up about a quarter short at the IWBF Americas Cup on Tuesday. The national senior men's wheelchair basketball team dropped a 70-57 semifinal decision to the United States, and will now...
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Scherzer, Springer, Kirk lead Blue Jays to 7-3 win over Pirates
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Max Scherzer pitched six strong innings to notch his 220th career win, and George Springer hit an early two-run home run as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-3 on Tuesday night. Scherzer (4-2) allowed one run and...
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B.C. Lions quarterback Nathan Rourke returning to rarefied form
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