MISSING BOY
Police find missing 10-year-old in Fraser Valley
UPDATE 3:32 P.M. FRIDAY: The Surrey Police Service says the missing 10-year-old boy has now been found alive and safe. All identifying information has been removed for privacy reasons.
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2022 HOMICIDE
Chilliwack man receives life sentence for fatal 2022 stabbing in Mission
MISSION - A Chilliwack man has now been convicted of second-degree murder for the fatal stabbing of 64-year-old Holbert Tew nearly three years ago.On December 14, 2022, Mission RCMP responded to a report of a stabbing in the 33800-block of 4th Avenue, near Mary Street. Police found a man suffering from stab wounds, and...
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Blue Jays bullpen trying to stay ready with Scherzer, Francis still out for now
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Personalized Hearing Care
Fraser Valley Beltone brings the joy of sound back to Chilliwack
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Jeeno Thitikul extends Women's PGA lead and semi-retired Lexi Thompson contending for another major
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Fraser Valley
WEATHER STATEMENT
Special weather statement issued for possible snow on Coquihalla overnight
HOPE - Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for the Coquihalla Highway from Hope to Merritt on Friday (Jun. 20). It may be the first day of summer, but an upper disturbance travelling over southern B.C. is bringing widespread showers and possibly - wet snow - over the highway summits. Snow levels m...
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SUPER SAVE FIRE
Firefighters quickly put out blaze at Super Save in Surrey Friday morning
FRASER VALLEY - Surrey firefighters were in and out of an incident at a local Super Save early Friday morning (Jun. 20).Witnesses reported seeing the fire on the Langley Bypass at around 8:30 a.m. The Surrey Fire Fighters Association then shared a post shortly before 9 a.m., saying crews were on scene at the Super Save...
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ABBOTSFORD CANUCKS
Abbotsford Canucks take 3-1 series lead in Game 4 Thursday night
ABBOTSFORD - The Abby Canucks have been on fire over the ice this season- going from a historic franchise first in the Western Conference Final, to only being one win away from the 2025 Calder Cup. With a synergetic team and Artūrs Šilovs blocking 30 out of 32 shots against him, Abbtosford took a 3-2 win in Gam...
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Cultus Lake Day
Cultus Lake Day parade, community activities happening lakeside on Saturday
CULTUS LAKE - Rain or shine, Cultus Lake Day is back for another year of community spirit with a full roster of activities. Cultus Lake Day kicks off at the Cultus Lake Fire Hall with a pancake breakfast from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., followed by the parade at 11 a.m. Image: Kevin Plastow Photography, via Cultus Lake Pa...
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British Columbia
Federal Transportation Minister Freeland 'dismayed' about choice of Chinese shipyard
VICTORIA - Federal Transportation Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is "dismayed" that BC Ferries has contracted a Chinese state-owned shipyard to build four new vessels in the current geopolitical context that includes "unjustified" tariffs on Canada. Freeland says in a letter sent to provincial ...
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Life sentence with no parole for 12 years for killer of Chilliwack, B.C., man
CHILLIWACK - The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says a man arrested for murder in January 2023 has been given a life sentence without the chance of parole for 12 years in the death of a man in Chilliwack, B.C. The team says in a news release that the sentence for 27-year-old Matthew Bauer was handed down Thursd...
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Control zones set up in Fraser Valley after Newcastle disease detected in Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has put up controls on the movements of birds around two commercial poultry farms experiencing the first outbreaks of virulent Newcastle disease in Canada in more than 50 years. The establishment of the primary control zones in the Fraser Valley means that birds, byprodu...
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B.C. Public Safety Minister says program funding targets repeat violent offenders
SURREY - British Columbia's public safety minister says the provincial government is adding another $6 million to a policing initiative targeting repeat violent offenders. Gary Begg says the money for the Special Investigation and Targeted Enforcement program will build on the initiative's past successes in leading to ...
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Wildfire of note downgraded in B.C., remains burning out of control
A recent soaking of rain in northeastern British Columbia has helped to remove the one remaining fire out of the so-called wildfire of note category, although the Summit Lake blaze is still labelled as burning out of control. Two other wildfires of note, meaning they are highly visible or a threat to communities, were ...
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B.C. mall owner's push to buy 25 Hudson's Bay leases faces landlord opposition: docs
TORONTO - New court documents show that the landlords of former Hudson's Bay properties overwhelmingly oppose the department store's sale of leases to a B.C. entrepreneur. The documents filed by a court monitor appointed to help the Bay through creditor protection say landlords representing 23 leases in a group of 25 W...
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Canada
Federal Transportation Minister Freeland 'dismayed' about choice of Chinese shipyard
VICTORIA - Federal Transportation Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is "dismayed" that BC Ferries has contracted a Chinese state-owned shipyard to build four new vessels in the current geopolitical context that includes "unjustified" tariffs on Canada. Freeland says in a letter sent to provincial ...
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Control zones set up in Fraser Valley, B.C., after Newcastle disease detected
CHILLIWACK - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has put up controls on the movements of birds around two commercial poultry farms experiencing the first outbreaks of virulent Newcastle disease in Canada in more than 50 years. The establishment of the primary control zones in the Fraser Valley means that birds, byprodu...
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CP NewsAlert: Federal Appeal Court grants B.C. ostriches stay of cull pending review
OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal has granted a stay, pausing the potential cull of nearly 400 ostriches at a B.C. farm. Court records show that a motion to pause plans for the cull, pending an appeal, was granted this afternoon in Ottawa. More coming. The Canadian Press
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Predicting deadly rockfall would have been impossible, say geologists
Geologists say it would have been impossible for Parks Canada to predict or prevent the massive rockfall that killed two people in Banff National Park on Thursday, with pressure building over many years released as hikers were below. University of Calgary Prof. Daniel Shugar says water from a lake above the cliff at Bo...
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Canada-Europe security and defence pact to be signed Monday in Brussels
OTTAWA - A security and defence partnership pact Prime Minister Mark Carney will sign with European leaders in Brussels on Monday will be among the most wide-ranging agreements with a third country Europe has ever reached, a senior EU official said on Friday. Carney is flying to Europe Sunday for a Canada - EU Summit, ...
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Don't regulate us like radio, music streamer Spotify tells CRTC
OTTAWA - Music streamer Spotify says Canada's federal broadcast regulator shouldn't impose rules meant for radio on streaming services. Appearing before a CRTC hearing today, company representatives compared regulating Spotify like a radio station to treating Uber like a horse and buggy. In its written submission, Spot...
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World
Rhode Island lawmakers pass bill to ban sales of assault weapons
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's Democratic-controlled state House on Friday approved legislation that would ban the sale and manufacturing of many semiautomatic rifles commonly referred to as assault weapons. The proposal now heads to the desk of Democratic Gov. Dan McKee, who has said he supports assault weapon...
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Husband re-arrested in the death of Suzanne Morphew, whose remains were found after 3-year search
DENVER (AP) - The husband of Colorado woman Suzanne Morphew, whose remains were discovered over three years after she was reported missing on Mother's Day 2020, was arrested again Friday on suspicion of first-degree murder, authorities said. Barry Morphew was arrested Friday in Arizona after a Colorado grand jury retur...
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Court blocks Louisiana law requiring schools to post Ten Commandments in classrooms
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state's public school classrooms is unconstitutional. The ruling Friday marked a major win for civil liberties groups who say the mandate violates the separation of chur...
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Sports
Blue Jays bullpen trying to stay ready with Scherzer, Francis still out for now
TORONTO - Every five games the Toronto Blue Jays' bullpen has had to step up. Sometimes it works, and sometimes, like Toronto's 7-1 loss to the lowly Chicago White Sox on Friday, it does not. Spencer Turnbull, who served as the so-called opener in the bullpen day, said it's been a team-first mentality for his fellow re...
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Alford's 99-yard kickoff return for TD lifts Riders to wild 39-32 win over Argos
TORONTO - Mario Alford's 99-yard kickoff return for a touchdown with nine seconds to play rallied the Saskatchewan Roughriders to a stirring 39-32 win over the ailing Toronto Argonauts on Friday night. Alford's return right came after Toronto's Nick Arbuckle made it 32-32. Arbuckle capped a 70-yard, nine-drive with an ...
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Jeeno Thitikul extends Women's PGA lead and semi-retired Lexi Thompson contending for another major
FRISCO, Texas (AP) - Semi-retired Lexi Thompson is going into the weekend contending for her first major title in more than a decade, and in a dwindling group of players under par at the KMPG Women's PGA Championship while Jeeno Thitikul extended her lead. Thitikul, the No. 2-ranked player in the world, finished a six-...
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