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Olympian freestyle skier to visit Chilliwack for BIA food drive in June
CHILLIWACK - An Olympic freestyle skier from Team Canada will headline a five-hour food drive in June, sponsored by the Downtown Chilliwack Business Improvement District. In an email from BIA executiv...
Mike VandenBosch May 11, 2023

Record-breaking heat forecast for Chilliwack, but won't match 2021 heat dome
CHILLIWACK - Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement as unseasonably hot weather is forecast for five days in Chilliwack and surrounding communities starting Friday.In a special weat...
Mike VandenBosch May 11, 2023

Employee at Surrey temple arrested for sexual assault, released: RCMP
SURREY - Following an investigation by its Special Victims Unit, Mounties in Surrey say a 58-year-old man and employee of a temple in Surrey has been arrested for alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-o...
May 10, 2023

Lead foot costs driver an arm and a leg in Agassiz
AGASSIZ - A lead foot can cost an arm and a leg and then some. A Fraser Valley motorist learned that lesson the hard way after being clocked at over 100 kilometres an hour in a posted 50-km/hr zone ne...
Mike VandenBosch May 10, 2023

Man crashes car after avoiding deer on Dewdney Trunk Rd.
MISSION - A man who succeeded in avoiding a deer late last week wasn't so lucky when he subsequently crashed into a cedar tree on Dewdney Trunk Road west of Mission last week. According to a social me...
May 10, 2023

Residents rescue dog from Chilliwack River Valley backcountry
CHILLIWACK - The story of a dog who was apparently tied to the back of a Ford pickup truck at one point on property in the Chilliwack River Valley, and later found languishing in backcountry bush, has...
Mike VandenBosch May 10, 2023

B.C. Highway Patrol pulls over American doing 262 km/hr on the Coq
MERRITT - An American motorist may regret his need for speed after he was caught driving 262 kilometres an hour in a 120-km zone Sunday afternoon. In a press release from authorities, a member of the ...
Mike VandenBosch May 10, 2023

City of Chilliwack seeks names for its new bike lane sweeper
CHILLIWACK - City staff are asking the public to weigh in on an innovative machine making its way around town cleaning Chilliwack's network of bike lanes. The city wrote in a press release Monday (May...
Mike VandenBosch May 10, 2023

Water pipe reportedly bursts at Chilliwack Secondary, firefighters respond
CHILLIWACK - Students at Chilliwack Secondary School were reportedly evacuated earlier today after a sprinkler head failed and released, prompting a fire alarm activation and a response from the Chill...
Mike VandenBosch May 09, 2023

Child exploitation, online sexual abuse cases in B.C. surging: RCMP
CHILLIWACK - Investigators with the B.C. RCMP in Surrey say they have seen a staggering increase in the number of online child exploitation reported to them in just the first quarter of 2023 alone. In...
May 09, 2023