Motor vehicle incident
Two vehicles towed after motor vehicle crash on First Ave. Friday night
CHILLIWACK - Two vehicles had to be towed late Friday night after a motor vehicle incident near First Avenue and Charles Street in Chilliwack. According to scanner traffic, the call first came in as a vehicle into a hydro pole at approximately 10:41 p.m. Engine 1 arrived on scene at 10:43 p.m. at the intersection and l...
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B.C. student created wildfire map during own evacuation from Manitoba fire zone
University of British Columbia Okanagan geography student Jenna Taylor went home last month to spend time with her family in Flin Flon, Man. A relaxing break did not ensue. Taylor and her family would join thousands of evacuees on May 27, fleeing wildfires that prompted a provincewide state of emergency and spread to l...
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Motor vehicle incident
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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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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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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
Four missing after Airmedic helicopter crash in northeastern Quebec: police
MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police say an operation is underway after a helicopter crash in northeastern Quebec that has left four people unaccounted for. They say the aircraft operated by Airmedic was involved in an accident about 10:30 p.m. near Natashquan, Que., a little more than 1,000 kilometres northeast of Mont...
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B.C. student created wildfire map during own evacuation from Manitoba fire zone
University of British Columbia Okanagan geography student Jenna Taylor went home last month to spend time with her family in Flin Flon, Man. A relaxing break did not ensue. Taylor and her family would join thousands of evacuees on May 27, fleeing wildfires that prompted a provincewide state of emergency and spread to l...
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Ottawa considering 'combination of approaches' to 20% military pay hike
OTTAWA - Defence Minister David McGuinty's office says it's considering a "combination of approaches" to boosting pay for armed service members, including introducing retention bonuses for "stress trades." "This investment represents an almost 20 per cent increase to the overall CAF compensatio...
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First Nations youth say they're 'starting a movement' against major projects bills
OTTAWA - First Nations youth leaders are warning Canadians can expect a long, tense summer of protests as governments push forward with plans to fast-track major projects - and young people will be leading the charge. "You will see us in your cities, your city's hubs," said Ramon Kataquapit, a youth councillo...
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Events are being held across the country Saturday to mark Indigenous Peoples Day
OTTAWA - Hundreds of events are planned across the country Saturday to mark Indigenous Peoples Day. First observed in 1996, Indigenous Peoples Day is meant to recognize First Nations, Inuit and Métis cultures and traditions. Prime Minister Mark Carney will take part in a closed event to mark the day. The office ...
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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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World
Sunken Bayesian superyacht lifted out of the water off Sicily as salvage operate completes
PORTICELLO, Italy (AP) - A British-flagged luxury superyacht that sank off Sicily last year, killing U.K. tech magnate Mike Lynch and six others, was lifted fully out of the water on Saturday afternoon as salvage recovery crews completed the operation to bring it ashore for further investigation, the local coast guard ...
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Belarus frees key opposition figure Siarhei Tsikhanouski following rare visit from top US envoy
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) - Belarus has freed Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a key dissident figure and the husband of exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, following a visit there by a senior Trump administration official, Tsikhanouskaya's team announced on Saturday. It said Tsikhanouski, a popular blogger and activis...
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Israel-Iran war stretches into a second week without diplomatic breakthrough
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Hours of talks aimed at de-escalating fighting between Israel and Iran failed to produce a diplomatic breakthrough as the war entered its second week with a fresh round of strikes between the two adversaries. European ministers and Iran's top diplomat met for four hours Friday in Geneva, as Pres...
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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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